Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jennifer Morrison was recognized as a 2020 ASSET Bright Light Award recipient.
Each year, ASSET celebrates the accomplishments of educators,
administrators and other district personnel who help make integrating
technology into the classroom a smooth process and an excellent learning
experience for students.
Dr. Morrison was nominated for the honor by James Svendsen, the
district’s director of curriculum, instruction and technology. In his
nomination letter, Svendsen noted Dr. Morrison’s swift integration of
makerspaces and team teaching for the Library Media program. The
district has also brought in more than 300 Chromebooks, with an
additional 300 this school year, and also offers iPads in every
classroom. Svendsen added that Dr. Morrison changed the Science Lab
program to a STEAM/Coding program. She changed the way that the
district’s Technology Committee operates by providing time to meet
monthly with them, as well as working with the technology director, to
create subcommittees to work on districtwide technology initiatives,
including keyboarding, Substitution Augmentation Modification
Redefinition, software usage and requests, continual teacher surveys and
more.
Especially, Svendsen noted, Dr. Morrison brought one of the teachers out
of the classroom to become a technology integration specialist. The
teacher has been working with all classroom teachers to train them and
provide them with support in their endeavors to incorporate technology
in the classroom.
Dr. Morrison was formally recognized during the Bright Lights’ Luncheon on Jan. 9.