Helen Padgett—Affiliate Representative

Dr. Helen Padgett served as Program Chair for NECC 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona. When the Arizona Technology in Education Alliance (AzTEA) became an ISTE OA in 1998 at NECC in San Diego, Helen was a member of the application committee and has continued to serve as the AzTEA representative to ISTE. Helen participated as a member of the writing team for the ISTE publication, NETS•T Resources for Assessment. She has presented research papers at NECC annually since 1996 and has been a presenter at the ISTE NECC preconference Forum on Assessment and Technology since 2002. As Project Manager for two Arizona State University PT³ grants, Helen facilitated the development of a National Educational Technology Standards Digital Video Library (NETSDVL) and the development and implementation of an Integration of Technology Observation Instrument (ITOI).

During Helen’s twenty-year career as a K–12 teacher and administrator, she developed a passion for educational uses of technology to improve student achievement and designing and conducting professional development for teachers, administrators, and university faculty members. As a faculty member at Arizona State University, Helen presents and models standards-based technology integration lessons to preservice and inservice teachers in her courses. Helen serves as the ISTE Representative on the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Technology.