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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 secured part of the district's website, a 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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