Leadership Exchange: Aligning K-12 to Work ... and the Future

Tammy Campbell, Ed.D., is the superintendent in residence for Federal Way Public Schools (FWPS) in Washington where she has been a leader in positioning students to seize their bright futures. In her seventh and final year with the district, she’ll serve as the executive coach and mentor to the incoming superintendent. Under Campbell’s leadership, FWPS has earned regional and state accolades, including the board of directors being named the Large District Board of the Year by the Washington State School Directors’ Association, and Campbell being recognized as one of the 25 most influential leaders in the Seattle region by Seattle Magazine. Campbell began her career in education as a classroom teacher and brings over 24 years of experience to her role as superintendent. She has served as a principal, executive director of teaching and learning, executive director of instructional programs, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, and higher ed faculty at Washington State University, Gonzaga University, Seattle University and the University of Washington. Campbell says her upbringing in the Louisiana Delta in a time of de facto segregation convinced her that schools are game changers for students and communities. That awareness led her to accomplish many firsts in her family, including high school valedictorian, college graduate and becoming the first to receive a doctorate. At every milestone, Campbell says she reflected on her journey and the key people who helped her achieve her dreams. Without fail, teachers were the people who lifted her up and believed she could do incredible things.

Daniel A. Domenech has served as executive director of AASA, The School Superintendents Association, since July 2008. He has more than 36 years of experience in public education, including 27 as a school superintendent. Prior to joining AASA, Domenech served as senior vice president for National Urban Markets with McGraw-Hill Education where he was responsible for building strong relationships with large school districts nationwide. He previously served as superintendent of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. He began his teaching career in New York City where he taught sixth grade in a predominantly black and Hispanic community. He then became program director for the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the largest intermediate school district in the state of New York. He then became superintendent for Long Island’s Deer Park Schools, followed by South Huntington School District, a position he held for 13 years. From 1994 to 1997, he was district superintendent of the Second Supervisory District of Suffolk County and chief executive officer of the Western Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES0. An AASA member since 1979, Domenech served as president of AASA from July 1998 to June 1999. He’s also a past president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, the Suffolk County Superintendents Association and the Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. Domenech has served on the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment Governing Board, the advisory board for the Department of Defense Schools, the board of directors of the Association for the Advancement of International Education, the Board of Overseers for the Baldrige Award and the boards of the Center for Naval Analyses, Institute for Educational Leadership, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, National Student Clearinghouse, Sea Research Foundation and Education Policy Institute. He currently serves on the National Comprehensive Center Advisory Board and the boards of the Learning First Alliance, Horace Mann Educators Corporation, ACT and the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), and is board chair for Communities in Schools of Virginia. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and a Ph.D. from Hofstra University.

Rand Hansen, Ed.D., is the acting dean of the School of Arts and Science at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) and president of the ISTE Board of Directors. As acting dean, he supports the planning and execution of all academic and administrative matters pertinent to the successful operation of the School of Arts and Science; collaborates on developing and implementing a strategic plan; champions program quality; and administers academic policies and processes at the school level. He was previously a program director for learning design and technology, lead designer for the instructional design and technology micro-master’s program and acting vice-dean of the Education Department at UMGC. Hansen began his career as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher and a district technology coordinator for a large urban school district in Maryland. He has also worked at Discovery Education, Johns Hopkins University and National Louis University. He holds a master’s degree in instructional systems design from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a doctorate in educational technology from Pepperdine University. In 2015, he was named to the Center for Digital Education’s Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers list. In 2016, he earned the ISTE Making IT Happen award.

Randi Hill is the technology coordinator and chief happiness officer for Gwinnett County Public Schools’ Gwinnett Online Campus. She has spent her 29-year education career with Gwinnett County Public Schools, which serves nearly 178,000 students. A frequent presenter at edtech conferences, Hill is passionate about supporting and encouraging educators so they succeed and reach their full potential. She has a bachelor’s from North Georgia College & University (now the University of North Georgia College) and a master’s degree and specialist degree from the University of Georgia. Hill was named the 2015 Gwinnett County High School Teacher of the Year, 2015 Gwinnett Online Campus Teacher of the Year and was a 2015 Henry Ford Foundation Innovation Award Recipient.

Dr. Donna Jones has spent over 20 years in the academic technology space, currently with an educational partner - Kaltura. In prior academic roles, she designed, developed, assessed, and taught online courses for over 12 years and developed and managed new academic programs, participated in accreditation planning, and created and managed an emerging technology center responsible for investigating and teaching with promising new technologies. In addition, Dr. Jones has worked with multiple institutions to develop distance learning consortia Dr. Jones is a past president and board member of the Iowa Distance Learning Association (IDLA), the first state chapter of the United States Distance Learning Associations (USDLA). Dr. Jones has earned a Doctor of Education in Instructional Technology and Distance Education where her dissertation focused on assessing virtual team building and improved collaboration through problem-based learning in the distance environment.

Elliott Masie is the Host and Curator of many Learning & Development Seminars, Labs, and Conferences over the past 30 years. He is a provocative, engaging and entertaining researcher, educator, analyst and speaker - focused on the changing world of the workplace, learning and technology. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term eLearning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises. He heads The MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning CONSORTIUM, a coalition of 150+ global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies, including American Express, General Electric, McDonald’s, General Motors and Fidelity Investments. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by over 52,000 business executives worldwide, and a regular columnist in professional publications, including CLO Magazine. He is the author of 12 books, including the ASTD/MASIE Center’s Big Learning Data. Elliott's next book will be "EveryDay Learning" to be published in September 2020.

David Miyashiro, Ed.D., is the superintendent of the Cajon Valley Union School District (CVUSD) in El Cajon, California. Under his leadership, CVUSD has achieved systemwide success with blended and personalized learning, where all teachers and students have 24/7 access to their own district-issued laptop, internet connectivity and a digital ecosystem of robust resources and creativity tools. In 2015, CVUSD was inducted into The League of Innovative Schools, a distinction that ranks Cajon Valley in the top 73 U.S. school districts for innovation and digital learning. In the spirit of TED, CVUSD launched the first districtwide TEDx and TED Ed Club in the U.S. Miyashiro was invited by TED to the first cohort of TED-Ed Innovative Educators, a partnership that has allowed all students in Cajon Valley access to a robust and personalized curriculum designed by the TED-Ed team. CVUSD also partners with Code.org and Code To The Future to bring computer science to all students, and is home to the first K-5 computer science magnet schools in the U.S. Miyashiro was previously the assistant superintendent of educational services for the Encinitas Union School District, and a principal in the Fullerton and East Whittier school districts. He has a doctoral degree from UCLA, a master’s from Grand Canyon University and a bachelor’s from California State University, Long Beach. Miyashiro was appointed by the California State Board of Education to serve as co-chair for the state’s committee tasked with bringing computer science to all K-12 students. He also serves on the California School Boards Association’s (CSBA) President's Advisory Council, and was named 2016 Superintendent of the Year by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Region 18.