About
 About the Council: The Council is comprised of education professionals who are exploring the relationship among emerging media, shifting economic, social, and cultural patterns in the U.S. and the world, and innovative strategies for supporting increasingly powerful learning. The Council seeks to partner with educators and organizations who share interests in these relationships.
Executive Board
Our mission is to support systemic change that transforms conventional schooling into powerful learning that serves the needs of all people, regardless of their geographic location, unique challenges, interests or aptitudes. More
Goals
- Articulate and disseminate a transformative vision for 21st century learning.
- Create opportunities and venues for dialogue about education change; work to facilitate, energize, inform and deepen these dialogues.
- Promote strategies that build powerful learning organizations.
- Help align reform efforts across the educational system.
- Inform change agents and stakeholders, lending insight to specific policy changes.
Partners
Teaching with Primary Sources
Civic Canopy
Colorado Department of Education
Colorado Consortium for Data-Driven Decisions
Colorado Online Learning
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Contact Us
The Council on 21st Century Learning
PO Box 102185
Denver, CO 80250
Phone: (720) 233-2104
E-mail: info@C21L.org
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Projects
ColoradoLearns Network. This online meeting place hosts discussion forums, an information clearinghouse, a learning channel with video clips, and mini-conferences. Scheduled for launch in June 2008.
Video. 21st Century Learning Matters: A Conversation Starter for Education Communities is available on DVD and via www.C21L.org. A new video, Powerful Learning, is tentatively slated for release in December 2008.
Consulting. C21L provides consulting services for schools, districts and education organizations on professional development and organizational change, as well as planning and evaluation services.
Promising Practices. C21L maintains a database of promising practices in Colorado, and seeks to enrich the database through case studies, video clips and evaluation studies.
Executive Board
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Dixie Griffin Good is president of The Public Good, Inc., an education consulting firm known for its research on educational use of data and technology. In working with education groups and public agencies, she uses her skills as a researcher, evaluator, policy analyst, and writer to inform key decisionmakers as they manage change and advance their organizational goals. She earned a Master’s degree in Future Studies in 1986, and worked in state government and non-profit communications before founding The Public Good, Inc., in 1996. Since then, Ms. Good has completed evaluation studies at the state, district, and school levels, and completed research on a broad array of K-12 education topics. Her professional interests center on the process of change, especially as it relates to education and public policy. She writes on an array of education topics for policymakers and other education stakeholders. She is co-author of Trendbenders: Building Healthy and Vital Communities (HRET/AHA Press, Chicago: 2002).
Email: dgg@C21L.org
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Stevan
Kalmon
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Stevan Kalmon, Director of the Council on 21st Century Learning, was a classroom teacher for 25 years. Before working with the Council, Stevan was Coordinator for Information Literacy and Technology in Denver Public Schools and Senior Consultant for the Education Technology Center at the Colorado Department of Education. He has published and presented frequently on topics related to 21st century learning, professional development, technology planning, and online learning. Stevan is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, teaching classes in technology leadership and instructional design. Stevan has a Master’s degree in Information and Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Email: skalmon@C21L.org |
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Peggy
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Peggy O'Neill-Jones is a Professor of Technical Communication and Media Production and directs the Library of Congress Adventure of the American Mind-Colorado (AAM-Colorado) project at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. AAM-Colorado works with educators around Colorado to incorporate primary source material from the Library of Congress into instructional practices.
Ms. O'Neill-Jones has served as chair of the Technical Communication and Media Production Department and specializes in emerging communication and instructional technologies such as Web-connected DVD, media production and educational technology.
She has worked in public and academic administration, K-16 educational media, technology development and training, and online and classroom instruction. She is the recipient of numerous professional accolades, including the 2003 DVDA Excellence Award for her work on “WebDVD Demystified,” which showed examples from around the world that demonstrate how Web and DVD technologies converge to create a powerful communication/educational medium. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Communication from the University of Denver and is a doctoral candidate in Educational Technology at the University of Wyoming.
Web: http://clem.mscd.edu/~oneilljp/
Email: poj@C21L.org or oneilljp@mscd.edu
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Rob
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Rob Piekarski is the Television Production Specialist for the Denver Public Schools Distance Learning Department. Rob has been involved in the creation of educational media beginning with Purdue University and more recently PBS in Denver and nationally. Rob has served in various positions in the world of media creation, including: Chief engineer for public radio; chief videographer and unit manager at Jeppeson-Sanderson, producing a training series for pilots; and owner of his own media production support company, with clients such as The MacNeil Lehrer Newshour, NBC, ABC, CBS, HBO, The Nashville Network, MTV and Fuji Television/Japan. Rob has served as a media production consultant to many Fortune 500 companies. Rob is a frequent presenter at the Technology in Education Conference in Colorado, with a focus on building a distance learning network and enhancing the K-8 classroom through the use of digital media. Rob also serves as grants coordinator for the DPS Distance Learning Department.
Email: Robert_Piekarski@dpsk12.org |
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Jeanne
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Jeanne Ross is Distance Learning Director for Denver Public Schools (DPS), responsible for long-range planning, project planning, coordination among departmental divisions, personnel supervision, coordination with outside agencies, and implementation of the distance learning program. She is also responsible for all administrative functions of the DPS Online High School. Jeanne has been a classroom teacher, counselor, education technology specialist, technology academy coordinator, grant writing coordinator, technology fair developer and coordinator, director, and principal. Jeanne has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado.
Email: Jeanne_Ross@dpsk12.org |
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| Kara Cassidy |
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Kara Cassidy brings over a decade of non-profit start-up, operations, and leadership experience to the Council on 21st Century Learning. Most recently, Kara helped one of the nation's top business coalitions focused on health care develop and launch a multi-year initiative to help improve care for individuals living with chronic illness. Prior to that, Kara helped start an education non-profit to improve K-12 academic performance and led projects to expand technology use among principals, superintendents, and school board members; to provide meaningful after school programs for middle school students; and to boost literacy through a student-to-student book exchange. Kara has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado-Denver.
Email: kcassidy@c21l.org |
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