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Opening Remarks by Janet Barresi: Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit
These are my notes from Janet Barresi‘s opening comments at the April 19, 2012, Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit in Oklahoma City. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. SEE ALL MY POSTS TAGGED “DLsummit2012” AS WELL AS MY TWEETS TAGGED “DLsummit2012.” This event is about Oklahoma’s solutions and Oklahoma’s innovations – what we are…
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Springer & Monson to Barresi: You Don’t Have the Right to Take Over Our Public Schools in Oklahoma
Karl Springer, the superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools, shared a passionate and clear message with Oklahoma State Superintendent Janet Barresi and Oklahoma City constituents today at a press conference: Local control of our Oklahoma public schools is a vital, important part of our democracy and the state department of education does NOT have the…
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Anywhere, Anytime Learning by Janet Barresi
These are my notes from Oklahoma state superintendent Janet Barresi‘s opening comments at the February 7, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I want to talk to you about anywhere, anytime learning Fundamental question: What is the value of a book? – the glue binding and…
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Janet Barresi’s ODLA 2011 Keynote
These are my notes from Janet Barresi‘s luncheon keynote presentation on November 9, 2011, at the fall Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference. Dr. Barresi is the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction. (AN ELECTED OFFICE IN OUR STATE, SHE TOOK OFFICE IN JANUARY 2011.) MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. HER PRESENTATION WAS SHARED WITH…
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Oklahoma’s New K12 Educational Leader (Janet Barresi) Models Social Media Use
Oklahoma’s new state superintendent of public education, Janet Barresi, has not wasted any time leveraging the power of social media to communicate with constituents since taking office on January 10th. Not only is Janet personally using Twitter and Facebook to post as well as reply to other folks, she (I assume with the help of…
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Education in Oklahoma 2010 Elections: Barresi wins, 744 defeated
If you were running for an Oklahoma public office on November 2, 2010, it was a good day to be a Republican. Republican candidate Mary Fallin will become Oklahoma’s first female governor, winning over 60% of the popular vote over her Democratic opponent, Jari Askins. Republican Janet Barresi won the race against Democrat Susan Paddack…
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STEM and Coding in Yukon Public Schools Featured on Oklahoma Horizon TV
Many thanks to Oklahoma educator Amy Jo Garner (@amyjogarner) for letting me know today via Twitter that Oklahoma Horizon TV has a featured segment from my 2015 STEM classroom at Independence Elementary School in Yukon Public Schools in their episode this week. thanks so much for the heads up! I'll check it out on #AppleTV 🙂…
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Why Oklahoma Needs Joy Not Janet as State Superintendent
Update June 25: Joy Hofmeister won the Republican primary election! The Tulsa World published the video of the June 10th statements by Janet Barresi referenced below, and also posted a transcript. If you are an Oklahoma voter, and especially a registered Republican (since our state doesn’t have open primaries) it is EXTREMELY important that you…
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Hallelujah: Oklahoma Withdraws from Common Core PARCC Testing Consortium
It took five months after I shared this tweet with our Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Janet Barresi, but it’s done. Thanks to a tweet this evening from Shawn Blankenship, I learned Oklahoma has officially withdrawn from PARCC, one of two consortia putting together high-stakes tests for the Common Core State Standards. According to…