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Outstanding Teacher: Karen Rose, third
grade teacher, McKillop Elementary School,
Melissa, Texas
Outstanding Leader: Dean Shareski, digital
learning consultant, Prairie South School Division, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Outstanding Leader and Outstanding
Teacher awards honor individuals who have
demonstrably improved education through
the effective use of technology.
to improve teaching and learning. Emerging
leaders are young educators who are also
leaders in technology integration.
ISTE Announces 2010 Award Winners
ISTE recognized its annual award winners at ISTE 2010 in June.
Karen Rose Dean Shareski Julie LaChance
Outstanding Young Educator:
Julie LaChance, technology specialist,
Northwest Cabarrus High School,
Concord, North Carolina
Emerging Leaders: Adam Bellow, technology training specialist, Copiague Union Free
School District, Copiague, New York;
Christopher Craft, teacher, CrossRoads Middle
School, Irmo, South Carolina; Andy Crozier,
coordinator of digital learning technology,
Grant Wood Area Education Agency, Lone
Tree, Iowa; Mary Beth Hertz, teacher, Guion
S. Bluford Elementary School, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Lisa Sjogren, technology
integration specialist, Osseo Area Schools,
Maple Grove, Minnesota
The Outstanding Young Educator Award
honors an educator under 35 who has
demonstrated vision, innovation, action,
and transformation and used technology
Public Policy Advocate: John Cradler,
representing Computer Using Educators, Inc.,
San Mateo, California
Public Policy Advocacy Trendsetter:
Heather Blanton, representing the Virginia
Society for Technology in Education, Pound,
Virginia
These awards recognize outstanding leaders
and mentors in advocating for educational
technology policy at the local, state, regional,
national, and/or international level.
Kay L. Bitter Award for Excellence in
Technology-Based PK– 2 Education:
Deborah White, second grade teacher, Asa C.
Adams Elementary School, Orono, Maine
The Kay L. Bitter Award honors excellence
in technology-based PK– 2 education.
Sylvia Charp Award for District
Innovation in Technology: Floydada ISD,
Floydada, Texas, Jerry Vaughn, superintendent, and Sandy Vaughn, technology
immersion coordinator
The Sylvia Charp Award, presented by
ISTE and T.H.E. Journal, recognizes
district innovation in technology.
SIGMS Innovation Technology Award,
primary school winner: Tricia Svendsen,
teacher/librarian, and Anne Sullivan, fifth
grade teacher, Joseph Martin Elementary
School, North Attelboro, Massachusetts,
for “The Literature and Engineering/Design
Project”
SIGMS Innovation Technology Award,
secondary school winner: Cathi Fuhrman,
high school librarian, and Sarah DeMaria,
English teacher, Hempfield High School,
Landisville, Pennsylvania, for “The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn Movie Trailer Project”
The SIGMS awards, sponsored by Linworth
Publishing, Inc., and Follett Software Company, honor a school librarian and collaborating
teacher who have conducted an exemplary
technology program extending beyond the
media center.
SIGOL Online Learning Award,
first place: Cecily Anderson, Baltimore
County Schools, Baltimore, Maryland, for
“The MSA Reading & Math Blast!: An
Exemplar of 21st Century Learning”
SIGOL Online Learning Award,
second place: Jennifer Garcia, Academia
Britanica Cuscatleca, Santa Tecla, El Salvador,
for her research on using social networks
SIGOL Online Learning Award,
third place: Jamie-Ellen Spessard and
Amanda Henley, Goochland County Public
Schools, Goochland, Virginia, for their project
“Let Freedom Ring”
The SIGOL awards, sponsored by the ISTE
Special Interest Group for Online Learning,
recognizes creative educators for their pioneering use of online networks for students
in grades K– 16.
Learn more at
www.iste.org/awards
