Power Up Your Professional Learning and Coaching with #21things4

Courtney Conley is an Instructional Technology Coach for Utica Community Schools in Michigan. She is an ISTE Certified Educator and a Microsoft Innovative Expert as well as a Discovery Ed Ambassador and REMC Maker Ambassador. Courtney is a contributor to the 21 Things 4 Educators Project along with the 21 Things 4 Students and the MiTech Kids Projects. Courtney was honored as the Frank Miracola Educational Excellence Award recipient in 2020.

Kate Grunow has been in education for over a decade as a K-12 digital media specialist and English teacher. She currently serves 130,000 students and over 10,000 teachers as an instructional technologist in metro Detroit. She is one of the co-creators of the 21 Things 4 project and a presenter at local, state, and national conferences on topics such as blended learning, free technology tools, learning management platforms, and digital age teaching and learning. She has been the Schoology implementation lead for Macomb ISD for the past two years training over 3,000 teachers on Schoology during Covid-19.

Dr. Parker is an Interactive Learning and School Data/Improvement Consultant with Macomb ISD; adjunct faculty member for Central Michigan University in the Master of Arts in Learning, Design, and Technology. She has over 30 years as an educator in library media, technology, and Career Technical Education - Business, Accounting, & Computing. She is an ISTE Certified Educator and a former ISTE Digital Leader of the Year. Her work with ISTE includes support for ISTE Certification, authoring courses on the ISTE Educator Standards and ISTE Student Standards and the ISTE Seal of Alignment as a co-creator of the 21things4 project.

Holly Schomaker is a K-6 Media Center Specialist for Utica Community Schools in Southeast Michigan. She is also a facilitator for the Macomb Academy for Digital Educators (MADE) and a member of the 21 Things 4 Educators revision team. Holly is a DEN Ambassador and an ISTE Certified Educator.