Launch+Team

= Meet the Asheboro High School and FI Team =


 * [[image:ECBioPic.jpg width="93" height="132" align="left"]]Emmy L. Coleman** is a research associate and co-lead of the //[|Digital Learning Collaborative]// at //[|The William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation]//. Her work centers on managing and supporting coaching teams, providing strategic planning assistance for leadership teams, and conducting professional development opportunities for schools and districts participating in the //North Carolina Learning Technology Initiative// (NCLTI). She earned her B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and her Masters in Educational Leadership from NC State University in 2004. Ms. Coleman holds highly qualified NC licenses for both English education and education administration. Before joining the Friday Institute team, she was the founding director of //Warren New Tech High School// in rural North Carolina. Her work there involved planning and implementing a technology-enhanced learning environment based on the [|New Tech Foundation] model from Napa, California, in conjunction with the //[|North Carolina New Schools Project]// and //Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation//. Additionally, Ms. Coleman has many years experience as a teacher, curriculum specialist, assistant principal, and district communications director. Currently, she serves as the Principal Investigator for the //[|Connected Online Communities of Practice]// project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, conducted in partnership with the [|Consortium for School Networking] (CoSN) and State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA). She also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the //Golden LEAF Readiness Extension Initiative//, //IMPACT-Continuation Project,// and //NCDPI-FI Building Statewide Capacity Initiative//. Her past projects include: //[|NC 1:1 Statewide Feasibility Study]// and //Redesign High Schools 2.0//.


 * [[image:PCrooks.jpg width="115" height="142" align="right"]]Penny Crooks** is currently an assistant principal at Asheboro High School in Asheboro, North Carolina. Her responsibilities related to the 1:1 digital conversion include scheduling, planning and implementing Professional Development, modeling 1:1 implementation at the high school, and facilitating the Moodle learning management system. Crooks is also a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she is studying adolescent literacy and identity. Prior to being an assistant principal and beginning her graduate studies, Crooks was a high school English teacher for ten years.

**Dr. Lisa Hervey, NBCT** is a teacher educator at The William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. Her work focuses on the creation and facilitation of both face-to-face and online professional learning opportunities around K-12 digital conversion and the development of teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) while practicing in technology-rich settings. She earned her B.S. in K-12 Special Education and K-6 Elementary Education from Central Michigan University in 1998 and holds highly qualified NC licenses in both certifications. She achieved her // National Board for Professional Teaching Standards // certification while teaching middle grades language arts for ten years at a public separate school in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Hervey acquired her M.Ed. in K-12 Reading in 2007 and her Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction in 2011, both at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Currently, she designs, develops, and facilitates several graduate level online courses and online professional development courses for NCSU and Digital Learning Collaborative(DLC) , respectively. In addition, she works on a Connected Online Communities of Practice  project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, conducted in partnership with Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and State Education Technology Directors Association(SETDA) , to create an online community that will support teachers, administrators, chief technology officers, and instructional technology facilitators in the planning and implementation of ubiquitous computing environments in K-12 schools.

**Tina Webster** is a K-12 Instructional Technology Facilitator at [|Asheboro High School] in Asheboro, NC. She has been involved with the implementation of the NC IMPACT Grant at AHS. Through the resources of the grant, she has helped to plan and implement the 1 to 1 technology transformation at AHS through leadership from the NC Department of Public Instruction and The Friday Institute. Her focus is modeling ways for teachers to incorporate technology into classroom instruction and maintaining the instructional technology in the building. She works closely with classroom teachers on engaging projects across the curriculum. She earned her B.S. in Dance Education K-12 from UNC-Greensboro in 1990 and added on licensure in Technology Education in 1999.