District Tech Team Receives KDE Tech Team
On November 10, 2022, fourteen members of the Calloway County School district tech team were awarded the Stilwell Award by the Kentucky Department of Education. Judy Rose from the Office of Education Technology presented the members with their awards at the board meeting that followed. The Stilwell Award is named after the late William "Bill" E. Stilwell, a longtime faculty member of the University of Kentucky’s College of Education who worked diligently throughout his career to improve Kentucky K-12 educators’ access to modern technology.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is recognizing about 2,400 key education technology staff from Kentucky’s K-12 school districts and KDE's Office of Education Technology (OET) for their dedication and support of education technology during the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 to March 2022 by selecting them as recipients of the 2020-2022 Stilwell Award. The awards two-year time frame was brought forward to recognize the unusual circumstances that were a direct cause of the pandemic and the critical role that staff from the technology department and faculty played in keeping the Kentucky education system afloat.
“During those 24 months, Kentucky K-12 education technology staff not only survived but thrived in providing quality EdTech enabled products and services to Kentucky K-12 students, teachers and staff, across this entire state, amongst all the sudden demands, uncertainty and intensity going on during that timeframe,” said David Couch, associate commissioner in KDE’s Office of Education Technology.
