Meet+the+Presenters

Kim McMonagle, as Director of Educational Technology in Douglas County School District, Colorado believes in sparking the possibilities necessary to transform teaching and learning. Digital tools + highly effective instructional strategies = high yielding results. In addition to deeply connecting to the work of Curriculum & Instruction and Professional Development, Kim serves educators and education leaders throughout Colorado and beyond. She works on the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) faculty as an educational consultant to the Ministry of Education of Singapore and the US Virgin Islands. Since 2009 Kim spreads 21st Century learning as an active member on the Colorado Board of Directors for the Technology in Education (TIE) annual conference. Within Douglas County, Kim coordinates the implementation of 21st Century Classroom IWB grants awarded from the Morgridge Family Foundation. Students benefit from a World-Class Education which focuses on the right purpose, right tools and right results. Go Packers! Kim lived in DePere, Wi for 10 years, graduated from UW-Eau Claire and earned a Master's Degree from UW-Oshkosh. She grew up in LaCrosse, Wi and became a Colorado transplant in 1998. kim.mcmonagle@dcsdk12.org

Kevin Messman is the Manager – Education Technology at InfoCor, an audio visual systems integrator in the Milwaukee area. Kevin came to InfoCor after he recently retired from the School District of New Berlin, Wisconsin, as their Coordinator of Instructional Technology. During his tenure in New Berlin, Kevin provided leadership at a district level in its use of learning technologies in the classroom. Some of his key initiatives included implementation of interactive whiteboards in every elementary classroom and three-fourths of secondary classrooms; use of video conferencing at all schools for collaborative learning beyond the physical classroom, ; implementation of personal learning devices (BYOD) at the middle & high schools; STEM instruction with Project Lead the Way courses in grades 7-12. New Berlin is a SMART Showcase School District, and last spring Kevin was selected as the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Association (WEMTA) Administrator of the Year.

kevin.messman@infocor.com

M ike Horan is the former Director of Instructional Technology for Sarasota County Schools. He has twenty two years in education and is now a part of Promethean’s US Educational Strategic Team. Mike has been involved in the technology leadership for both the state of Florida and for the district for over the past 10 years and a successful classroom teacher before that for 13 years. Mike is a former Sarasota Teacher of the Year and wrote the first state funded retrofit grant for that county. As Director of Technology, he has led programs that have put laptop technology in the classroom, placed video conferencing resources at the schools across the state, and developed online learning resources for student use at home. In 2007, Mike and his team completed standardizing Sarasota classrooms with an ActivBoard+2 in each and every classroom within one year for a total of over 3,500 boards installed and over 4,000 teachers trained. This $14 million project in 2007 still stands as the largest one year deployment of interactive boards in the nation. Today, Mike uses that experience to work with Promethean’s largest installs as a planning coordinator. Mike lives in Sarasota with his wife, Mary Ann, and two children, seventeen-year-old daughter Riley and thirteen year old son Michael. Educational Strategy, Promethean Mike.Horan@prometheanworld.com