Category: Community Engagement

Actions taken to involve and engage community members.

Innovation Summit Southern California – The Best of Times!

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Over 80 educators and business leaders from throughout California met last month to participate in a collaborative initiative to improve instruction for students attending high schools, ROPs, adult schools, community colleges and four-year colleges in California. Over the past three years, Bill Cullifer, Executive Director of the WebProfessionals.org organization has led this collaborative initiative that
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Affordable Laptops for Schools

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With the emergence of online courses and blended learning environments, students and classroom teachers need access to the Internet. Unfortunately, because of the current fiscal crisis, it is unlikely the California legislature will allocate funds that will enable all students to have access to the Internet at school. If you need computer equipment and are
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Free Laptops for Schools

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Frugal administrators and classroom teachers will be encouraged to know there are ways to bring computers into the classroom even during the current fiscal crisis and time of tight budgets. Public / private sector collaboration makes this possible. It was my privilege to support the Silicon Valley Student’s Recycling Used Technology program (StRUT) by distributing
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Savvy Companies need IT Savvy Employees

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Harvard Business Press recently published an interesting book entitled IT Savvy What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. Peter Weill and Jeanne W. Ross coauthored this field-tested research book, in which they interviewed top-performing companies and concluded: “IT-savvy firms are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors.” Imagine the impact it
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