Mission Possible: Reaching All Learners With Technology

About the Author

ISA KAFTAL ZIMMERMAN is Associate Professor and Division Director of the Technology in Education division at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She is a past Superintendent of Schools in Acton and Acton-Boxborough, Easton and Lexington, MA., and Principal of Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Hamilton, MA. Her interests in technology and leadership have led her to be a member of BEST (Business and Education for Schools and Technology) and the Chair of ETAC (Educational Technology Advisory Council to the Commissioner and the Board of Education). For more than twenty years she has been involved in MASCD and is Immediate Past President. She is the Vice Chair of the Board of Young Audiences of Massachusetts, an organization that brings arts to the curriculum and to children. She has a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has co-edited three MASCD books: Every Child Can Learn Through Technology (1989), Beyond Technology: Learning With The Wired Curriculum (1998) and Teaching: A Career, A Profession (2000). Email: ikzimmer@lesley.edu

ANN KOUFMAN-FREDERICK is on the Faculty and the Design Team for Harvard Extension School’s Certificate in Technologies of Education graduate program, and is the Academic Director of the state funded professional development project LIFT2 (Leadership Initiatives for Teaching and Technology). She is a board member of MASCD, and Chair of the MASCD eLearning Committee. Her professional interests focus on developing curriculum with new technologies and designing and implementing emerging models of professional development. She began her career as a school psychologist, and has been a middle school teacher and instructional technology specialist in the Brookline Public Schools in Brookline, MA, an education curriculum specialist at BBN Learning Systems & Technologies in Cambridge, the Director of Technology Initiatives at the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, and Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Carroll School, a special education school in Lincoln, MA. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in School Leadership from Boston College. Her dissertation was entitled Electronic Collaboration: A Form of Teacher Professional Development. She continues to design, implement and research the effectiveness of web learning environments for educators and students. Email: koufman@post.harvard.edu