Hetlena Johnson, Sr. Professional Learning Manager at eChalk, taught in Aiken County Schools for 7 years before shifting to Instructional Technology Educator with Richland School District One in Columbia, South Carolina. From there, she realized that her true calling was professionally training teachers and administrators. After all, the students are the true beneficiaries of [...]
After more than 20 years as a teacher and principal, Dr. Fred Mednick founded Teachers Without Borders (TWB) in 2000. Believing that a commitment to global education is a universal responsibility, Dr. Mednick has traveled extensively throughout the world and lent his time, skills, and training to onsite development forums. Convinced that education and international [...]
Brian Crosby, an upper elementary teacher for 29 years, guides the learning in a model technology classroom in Sparks, Nevada. Coming from a background in outdoor education and educational technology, Brian fuses his “at risk” students’ use of technology with field trips, art, hands-on activities and a problem-based approach, to build their schema of the [...]
Pandora Thomas is Director and Curriculum Manager of the Environmental Service Learning Initiative for Global Exchange as well as the Environmental Educator for Grind for the Green. Both programs aim to reconnect youth of color to the earth using innovative strategies.
A certified teacher, Pandora Thomas received human rights advocacy and international education development training at Columbia [...]
Zakiya Harris received her B.A. in Political Science and History from Rutgers University and attended New College of Law in San Francisco before leaving to pursue her life long passion of teaching. Zakiya taught elementary through collegiate level in a variety of public and private settings.
In 2003, she became the lead trainer at the DJ Project [...]
14 year old Adrianna Svitak is an award-winning pianist and violinist hailing from Redmond, WA. Her teaching career started when she was nine years old (piano). Subsequently she offers violin lessons for beginning students. At 13, Adrianna co-authored Dancing Fingers with her sister Adora.
As a pianist, she played at events including the Seattle Young Artists’ Festival, [...]
In the days following TEDxDenverED, we’ve begun to navigate the ideas and visions that you sketched onto the problem solving towers and eno boards. There is a lot of work to do… videos to edit, emails to answer and hundreds of photographs and tweets and Facebook posts to sort out.
Perhaps the most challenging element of TEDxDenverED leading [...]
Dafna Michaelson is the founder, president and JourneyWoman for the 50 in 52 Journey, a project for which she traveled across America to all 50 states and Washington DC spanning the 52 weeks of 2009 to find America’s problem solvers and idea generators. Through this Journey Michaelson has been sharing the stories of ordinary people [...]
Len Scrogan is the Director of Instructional Technology for the Boulder Valley School District, and an adjunct instructor for the University of Colorado-Denver and Lesley University. A former teacher and principal, Scrogan was named by Electronic Learning magazine as one of nine leading educational technology consultants in the field. In 2009, he was named Outstanding [...]
Keith R. Krueger (CAE) is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning. He has extensive background in nonprofit/association management and is particularly interested in using information technologies for education, health and [...]
