Mary Moffitt

Mary Moffitt, director of learning technologies at District #54 in Schaumburg, Illinois, emphasizes the importance of including and budgeting for professional development and technical support activities in the technology plan. Excerpted from a videotaped interview for the video series Learning with Technology, program #3, Planning to Plug In (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 1996).

"Prior to being funded for equipment and classrooms, which is of course what everybody wants, give me the stuff, we wanted to make sure that there was a plan in place for how this would be used to improve teaching and learning and that those plans are being turned in over the summer, and the equipment we're getting ready for people will be selecting the kinds of equipment they want to go along with the read plan."

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