Mila Fuller, Digital Equity Summit Co–Chair, ISTE Headquarters (DC)

Mila M. Fuller, MA (mfuller@iste.org, 1.202.861.7777 ext. 125) is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Mila is responsible for helping the CEO in establishing and maintaining strategic alliances. She also assists with identifying and exploring partnerships with institutions, agencies and other organizations to further the ISTE mission and to address technology in teacher quality. Mila is Past–President of the ISTE affiliate, MICCA–An Association in Maryland for Educators Using Technology. Mila is based out of the ISTE Washington, DC Office, and has provided a variety of national and international presentations focused on improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education.

Prior to joining ISTE, Mila served as a district–level Coordinator for Technology Leadership, Program Manager for the Maryland Technology Academy Satellite Programs, Adjunct Faculty of Education for the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, University of Maryland at College Park, and 4th/5th grade teacher. Mila also served as a member of the Committee on Technology in Education (COTE) which was responsible for the development of the Maryland State Plan for Technology. Mila earned a Master of Arts in Leadership in Teaching with an endorsement in Administration & Supervision from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and is currently enrolled in a Doctoral Program at Towson University in Maryland.

Sharnell Jackson, Digital Equity Summit Co–Chair, Chicago Public School System

Sharnell Jackson is presently the Chicago Public Schools Chief eLearning Officer and the Area VII Learning Technology Center Director for the Illinois State Board of Education where she has served as an administrator and educator for the past thirty years. She managed a CPS team to design, develop, provide professional development and end user support for an interactive web–based curriculum instruction management portal with a suite of interactive tools to enhance leadership, teaching and individualize student learning.

Sharnell is currently providing leadership to a team of dedicated educational technology specialists to train, deploy and provide end user support for personal digital assistant early literacy assessments for over four hundred and fifty elementary school teachers and principals. She has worked with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to develop a Principal's Technology Leadership Institute, Data Driven Decision Making professional development, National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) assessments, curriculum, and professional development for teachers, students, administrators available to all CPS schools.

Sharnell is currently a CoSN Board Member, a participating member on the ISTE Policy and Advocacy Committee. She has served on several blue ribbon panels, served as the Past President of the Illinois Computing Educators for the State of Illinois, refined the Illinois State Learning Standards for Space and Earth Science, and received several local and state teaching awards. She obtained an Administrative degree from Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois and a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. Sharnell received a Masters of Education degree in Mathematics and Science as part of fellowship with NASA's Classroom of the Future located on the campus of the Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling West Virginia. She has also served as a member of NASA's Master Teacher Cadre.

Sharnell's proudest accomplishment is being the mother of Jisun and Marty, grandma of Daja, and wife of thirty-one years to her wonderful husband Martin Jackson.

Brenda Aspaas, Project Manager, ISTE Sr. Executive Assistant

Brenda Aspaas is the Senior Executive Assistant in ISTE's Washington, DC office, where she provides executive-level support to Don Knezek, ISTE's CEO, to achieve ISTE's mission and strategic goals. Brenda also serves as the executive secretary to the Board of Directors and coordinates and supports the office activities in the DC office. She has worked with top executives and boards of directors for more than 15 years, establishing and communicating policies and programs that complement the organizations' long-range business and strategic plans. Brenda has developed and implemented communications plans, marketing plans, direct-mail programs, advertising and promotional campaigns and managed numerous special events, seminars and tradeshows.

Prior to joining ISTE, Brenda was the Administrative Manager and Marketing Director for Denali Associates, a consulting and training firm in Severna Park, MD. She obtained her Associates Degree in Mid-Management, with an emphasis in Marketing, from Minot State University and has continued her studies at the University of Maryland, University College in Adelphi, MD.

Trina Davis, Texas A & M University*

Trina Davis, Ph.D. has a rich portfolio of experiences in educational technology and mathematics. Currently, Dr. Davis is an Assistant Professor in Instructional Design and Technology and the Director of eEducation in the College of Education at Texas A&M University. Her professional experience includes teaching at the middle school and college level in both rural and urban settings. Since 1997, Dr. Davis has provided leadership on signature technology programs in the College of Education and Human Development; including programs funded by the U. S. Department of Education (R*TEC, PT3 and Transition to Teach), the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, the Houston Endowment, and NASA.

Currently, the eEducation Group, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, is offering an online teacher certification program for secondary teachers. Dr. Davis is particularly proud of her vision in designing and co-developing the eEmpowerment Zone & Integrated ePortfolio System, a comprehensive elearning and assessment system that serves as the primary delivery system for the Accelerate Online program.

Trina Davis has also served on a host of expert panels and committees at the state and national level. In 2005, Dr. Davis was re-appointed by the Texas Commissioner of Education, to the Texas Education Agency, Educational Technology Advisory Committee (2005-2008), she served as the co-chair of the ETAC from 2001-2003. Currently, Trina is the Treasurer of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), she was re-elected to the ISTE Executive Board of Directors through 2007. In 2002, she served as the co-chair of the ISTE Minority Leadership Symposium. In 2004, Dr. Davis was the moderator and served on the Steering Committee of the ISTE Leadership Symposium held in conjunction with the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).

Affiliation:
ISTE Executive Board of Directors–Treasurer
Assistant Professor and Director of eEducation
Texas A&M University

Elsa Macias, Center for Urban Education

Dr. Macias has spoken extensively on education and education technology issues at national conferences, including briefings with elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels. She has served in an advisory capacity to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), The Children's Partnership, and the Center for Media Education (CME), and has been funded by such noteworthy organizations as the National Science Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Dr. Macias received her Ph.D. in public administration from the Arizona State University School of Public Affairs, where her area of concentration was policy analysis. Her dissertation examined the course of federal policy decisions affecting bio–medical science research. She also holds master's and bachelor's degrees in biochemistry.

Aside from her current work, Dr. Macias has conducted research on several other issues, including the workforce pipeline for information technology careers, online content needs of Latino communities, an evaluation of the federal Head Start program, medical rehabilitation research, and establishing a national women's health research agenda at the National Institutes of Health.

Robert McLaughlin, ISTE SIGDE & NICI

Robert T. McLaughlin, Ph.D. is founder and executive director of the National Institute for Community Innovations (NICI), a Vermont–based organization committed to research, development, institutionalization and dissemination of innovative technologies that enhance learning opportunities and results for all students. He has served as a middle school educator, K–8 principal, director of state education department programs in workplace literacy and youth apprenticeship, and for six years prior to forming NICI in 1998, he co–directed a federally funded Eisenhower Regional Consortium for mathematics and science education reform across a nine–state region. He has been committed to educational equity since the inception of his professional life, serving as a Woodrow Wilson Administrative Fellow at both a tribally controlled community college on a North Dakota reservation and at a historically black university in Maryland. He founded and co–chaired the National Eisenhower Equity Task Force which, from 1992 to 1998, developed and nationally disseminated a free compendium of exemplary staff development materials on instructional and curricular approaches to enhancing equitable learning results in K–12 mathematics and science education. In 1999, he founded and co–chaired the U.S. Department of Education's Digital Equity Network which, with ISTE's support, has since become institutionalized as ISTE's Special Interest Group on Digital Equity, which he chairs. He has served on the National Commission on Technology and the Future of Teacher Education since its inception in 2001, has presented internationally and written extensively regarding practical digital equity strategies, and currently leads several major initiatives committed to dramatically improving access for low–income learners to powerful learning technology resources. Dr. McLaughlin founded and chairs ISTE's special interest group on Innovative Learning Technologies. In 1987, he received the Ph.D. degree in educational policy and leadership from the Ohio State University; his research focused on educational strategies that foster local cultural self–determination and economic opportunity and development.

Barbara Means, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International

Barbara Means directs the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International, an independent non–profit research organization based in Menlo Park, CA. Dr. Means' research focuses on the interplay between technology and educational reform. She is regarded as a leader in defining issues and approaches for evaluating the implementation and efficacy of technology–supported educational innovations. Currently, she leads SRI's research and assistance efforts in support of National Technology Activities within the U.S. Department of Education. She is also directing SRI's documentation of the implementation of educational technology in schools participating in the national randomized field trials evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Technology Innovations for the Institute of Education Sciences. Her published works include the edited volumes Evaluating Educational Technology, Technology and Education Reform, and Teaching Advanced Skills to At–Risk Students as well as the jointly authored volumes Using Technology Evaluation to Advance Student Learning, The Connected School , and Comparative Studies of How People Think. Dr. Means earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Q. Porter, Esquire, Deputy Superintendent of the Office for Information and Organizational Systems, Montgomery County Public Schools

Mr. Porter has been a consistent advocate for the alignment of organizational goals, human resources, and technology systems to facilitate cross-functional monitoring of continuous improvement initiatives. In recognizing his many achievements, Mr. Porter was selected as the Public School Chief Information Officer of the Year in 2005 from Public CIO magazine and has been invited to present at many conferences on data-driven decision making, educational strategic planning systems, information technology security, zero-based budgeting, and technology solutions for reengineering business processes. He is currently a fellow in the Broad Superintendent's Academy. Prior to his career in education, Mr. Porter served in several executive positions in the information management industry and founded a full-service information technology firm. Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Catholic University of America and a Juris Doctor degree from Ohio State University.

James Sweet, Senior Vice President of Digital Education Architects

Sweet managed a multi-state NCREL research project that explored how selected high-performing schools use technology to help close achievement gaps. He has managed research and development projects involving technology literacy assessments and curriculum for students and technology integration assessments and professional development for teachers. At CPS, James designed and led a comprehensive technology infusion program that was archived in the 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Collection. As part of this program, he designed a custom Internet application that enabled teachers to publish online curriculum projects and students to publish digital artifacts.

Sweet has presented at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC), the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE), and NCREL's National Educational Technology Conference (NETC). He has also presented at the annual conferences of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), and the National Rural Education Association (NREA).

Joyce Pittman, Advisory Committee Chair, University of Cincinnati*

Dr. Joyce Pittman, founder of Urban Education Technology Research Associates, an applied research group and a professor of Curriculum and Instructional Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Technology from Iowa State University of Science and Technology. She began her career over 35 years ago in secondary education teaching in the Chicago area and across the country. From teaching in the public and private schools, she began to pursue a career in the corporate and higher education research and service community.

Dr. Pittman was the 2005 Digital Leadership Caucus Chair at NECC Philadelphia and is the recipient of the 2005 National Digital Equity Award from the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), the College and University Research Scholarly Award for her research contributing to the field of Ed Media, and the ISTE Making It Happen Leadership Award. She is an active member/co–founder of the National Digital Equity Task Force, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, a Member of the National Commission on the Future of Teacher Education and Technology (Association of Teacher Educators). She has received numerous awards for her contributions to education. Dr. Pittman has been a principal investigator for over $25M in federal funds during her career. Most recently, this included a $2.7M, PT3 initiative known as CERTI (Comprehensive Educational Restructuring, and Infusion). Her research agenda centers on educational reform with a focus that includes: educational and technology standards, online learning, digital equity, and teacher preparation. Dr. Pittman's works are published widely in books, journals, periodicals, online, and in other scholarly and popular publications. Dr. Pittman is an ISTE Board member and Co-Chair of Digital Equity SIG.

Dr. Pittman's future applied science research projects will involve working with higher education in the International community and with online universities to support technology infusion and educational equity in teacher education from an intercultural perspective. Contact her at e-mail: joyce.pittman@gmail.com or joycepittman51@yahoo.com.
Website: http://www.uc.edu/certi

Bonnie Bracey Sutton, Independent Educational Consultant

Bonnie Bracey Sutton is a teacher–agent of change, a mentor teacher who works with technology integration projects focusing on the use of technology as media, nationally and internationally. She was the only classroom teacher appointed to the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council by President Clinton to work with Vice President Al Gore and the Commerce Dept.

Bonnie was an instructor of the White House Initiative CyberED. A former Fulbright Exchange Teacher in India and an elementary school teacher in Virginia, Ms. Bracey was selected as a Christa McAuliffe Educator by the National Education Association. She is also a former Challenger Center Fellow and Earthwatch Fellow. She served on the faculty of the Challenger Center and was a NEWEST Graduate, Langley, and NEW graduate of Goddard Space Center.

Bonnie has a special interest in science, math and technology use and creating learning landscapes. Her work in inquiry and innovation is reflected in the use of hands on projects, She has worked with NASA projects and outreach with NASA youth projects including the Young Astronaut program. She served on the advisory board of the George Lucas Educational Foundation for ten years, served as a fellow, and now does some outreach for the foundation, www.glef.org. She is a specialist on the digital divide. She was one of 23 nationally known educators who discuss educational technology and diversity, provide historical and philosophical insights into digital divide issues and offer practical suggestions for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in the book, "Toward Digital Equity: Bridging the Divide in Education."

Bonnie is the editor of the report of the eighth Global Forum of the United Nations ICT Task Force, held in Dublin in April 2005. She is a member of the international Advisory Committee of the Global Teenager Project.

Camilla Gagliolo, Arlington County Public Schools in Virginia*

Camilla is currently serving ISTE as the President of SIGTC (2002–2006) and as the Chair of ISTE Board's International Committee (2002–2006). Camilla commenced her involvement with ISTE by her participation in expert forums building ISTE's NETS for students, teachers, and administrators. She's also been integrally involved with NECC 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 as a member of the NECC Program Advisory Program Committee and as Proposal Review Chair for the Professional Development and Online Professional Development strands as well as Global Gallery. Camilla has presented at numerous national and international conferences, including NECC, VSTE, MICCA, ECIS and FETC.

Katie Klinger, National University, La Jolla, CA

Dr. Klinger has over twenty–five years of experience in teaching students of all ages how to use computer technology effectively in their lives and in their classrooms. She is also responsible for writing grants and building relationships with external educational, business, and industry consortiums to support growth and innovation in customized curriculum development and learning resources, student scholarships for underrepresented youth, professional development for high–quality teachers, and standards–based evaluation and research. In support of this work, Klinger is a board member of five business and educational organizations.

She actively presents at international conferences and publishes on how to integrate technology into K–12 learning environments for faculty, K–12 educators, and pre–service teachers. Klinger was the project director of a Microsoft/AACTE Virtual Classroom Tours grant, for which she was presented one of only three nationwide 2003 Innovative Teachers Outstanding Achievement Awards. In addition, she has served as the principal investigator on a $1.27 million PT3 U.S. Department of Education grant, as project coordinator for a prior PT3 grant, and as project director for a Gates Foundation Grant to train principals in the San Diego Catholic Diocese to use technology. Klinger is a member of AACE, AACTE, AECT, ASBSS, CEC, CERA, ISTE, SDCUE, and WBCC.

Sylvester Robertson, California State University San Bernardino

His current responsibilities at California State University at San Bernardino (CSUSB) are teaching technology credential courses to pre–service and in–service teachers. He has taught graduate courses for the Instructional Technology and Integrative Studies Programs. Sylvester has worked in this capacity as a full–time faculty member at CSUSB since 1990. His areas of expertise are integration of technology into instruction, reading in the content area (K–12), and development of instructional technology models for schools. He has supervised pre–service teachers within the five counties of Southern California and worked with schools in Moreno Valley, San Bernardino City, Snowline, Inglewood, and LAUSD School Districts.

Dr. Robertson believes that technology can be an effective tool for teachers to enhance their teaching and learning when matched with student needs and achievement. When technology is used as a delivery system to introduce content first, especially for students of color, learners use their strengths to overcome their weaknesses at a rate greater than the current rate of growth. Dr. Robertson has presented these concepts at local and national conferences throughout his tenure at California State University in San Bernardino.

James Smith, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State

James L. Smith, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State, Program Supervisor, ESEA Title II D, Enhancing Education Through Technology, Consolidated Federal Programs/Special Programs Unit. Mgr: $8,000,000 program.

Former Community Outreach Director for Generation Yes Inc; the organization that was formed to continue the success of the U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant, Generation www.Y, 9–96 to 9–01, where Mr. Smith was the Program Support Specialist. This non–traditional staff development model began in the Olympia School District, Olympia, WA. Mr. Smith was instrumental in its expansion to forty–one states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Gen Y uses partnerships between students and teachers to infuse modern computer technologies into the classroom.

Prior to joining Gen Y Mr. Smith taught 2nd grade in Tacoma, WA; After 25 Years of Broadcast production, marketing and advertising in the Seattle area with CBS, NBC, and Independent Television and Radio stations. Smith is a Vietnam Era veteran, and holds a BA/BS in Journalism and Marketing from the University of Washington, and has completed two years toward a Master's in Teaching degree from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. (96–98)

Former Chairperson of the (ISTE) International Society of Technology in Education Minority Leadership Symposium, NECC Chicago, June 2001. Current Co–Chair of the ISTE Minority Leadership Online Community/Leadership Bureau. Member, METT, Washington State Multi–Ethnic Think Tank, http://www.k12.wa.us, NABSE–WABSE, National Alliance of Black School Educators, http://www.nabse.org/ Past President–elect of Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Pierce County, WA. Alumni–Chair of the Economic Opportunities Program University of Washington Minority Affairs Dept. Alumni of Garfield HS, Seattle, WA along with Quincy Jones and Jimi Hendrix, the latter who Smith attended classes. NCCE, Northwest Counsel for Computer in Education, Board member. NECC, National Educational Computing Conference 2003, Student Showcase Co–Chair. Seattle, WA. Co Chair NECC Philadelphia Mayors Digital Leadership Caucus 2005.

Laura E Sujo de Montes, Northern Arizona University

Laura E Sujo de Montes holds a M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) degree and a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from New Mexico State University. Her work includes teaching and researching learning environments, connecting schools and university in meaningful partnerships that emphasize the use of technology for teaching, especially for schools with high enrollment of ethnic minority students, and being an active member of several Latino organizations, including the Coconino County Hispanic Council. She is presently a faculty member at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ where she has facilitated students' participation in Knowing Ourselves, Knowing Our Students (KOSKO) project. Finally, she is a member of the Leadership Alumni and has attended and participated in Minority Leadership Symposia and Leadership Symposia organized by ISTE. She was also a participant in last year's Mayor's Digital Leadership Caucus celebrated in Philadelphia, PA.

Helen Soulé, Cable in the Classroom*

Previously Soulé served as chief of staff to the assistant secretary for the Office of Post Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education and for eight years, was director of the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Technology

Soulé is one of the founders and past chairman of the State Education Technology Directors Association, is a member of the George Lucas Educational Foundation Advisory Board and has served on the board of the Consortium for School Networking. She is the recipient of Converge magazine's 30 "Shapers of the Future" award for 2001 and a recipient of the 2001 E–School News "Impact 30 Award for Excellence".

Soulé holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Mississippi State University, M.A. in Educational Administration from Mississippi State University and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Southern Mississippi.