Celebrating one who got away: a onetime district technology director, Ramona Pierson has taken her expertise to the private sector. Her work, and her exit, are something we can learn from.

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Celebrating one who got away: a onetime district technology director, Ramona Pierson has taken her expertise to the private sector. Her work, and her exit, are something we can learn from.(policy & advocacy)

Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07

Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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"IT IS SAVING MY LIFE from the assessment point of view."

The it that Ken Pendergrass, a music teacher at Frantz H. Coe Elementary School in the Seattle Public Schools, is referring to is Learn, a social-networking gathering hole for students, parents, and teachers that is tucked into a a...

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...secured part of the district's website, student information system called The Source. The evolution of the site is the story of an incredible innovator who passed through the education system all too swiftly.

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Ramona Pierson is--or was--the brain and the leader behind Learn and The Source. She began her technical career in the military, working in aviation. Unfortunately, she was hit by a drunk driver in 1984, resulting in multiple surgeries, a fractured leg bone that required titanium to be installed, a loss in weight that left her below 70 pounds when she was discharged from the hospital, and blindness. The blindness was partially relieved when, after 10 years,...

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