Bernie Lucier

Bernie Lucier, principal at Elizabeth Blackwell Elementary School in Schaumburg, Illinois, discusses efforts at his school to ensure that the technology introduced into the classrooms supports the delivery of instruction. Excerpted from the video series Learning with Technology, program #3, Planning to Plug In (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1996).

"We're right now at a point where we've got the entire staff really working with the technology community working to see where we want to go in the future relative to education and how technology can support that education. Our building is currently going under a rather major renovation plan, and so it's along with the building getting a new look that we're also looking to see what we can do with technology to sort of support that whole undertaking, so we have a technology committee working this year. And I think they've done a wonderful job as far as working with the entire staff to get more exposure to the ways that technology can support classroom instruction, and we've devoted a considerable amount of our staff development time to all staff members learning more about this idea."

This Critical Issue was written by Alan November, senior partner at Educational Renaissance Planners in Evanston, Illinois, and Carolyn Staudt, an educational consultant, in conjunction with Mary Ann Costello, a free-lance writer, and Lynne Huske, Pathways coordinator at North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Development and production of this Critical Issue were supported in part by the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.

Date posted: 1996
Revised: 1998