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PUSD's Digital Learning Vision
PUSD's Digital Learning Vision
Equity and access are at the heart of the Pomona Unified School District's Educational Technology Team's effort to expand the walls of the classroom to “everywhere, all the time learning” and support the digital learning vision of providing opportunities and environments that will equip, inspire, and empower all learners to effectively use technology and become self-directed, goal-oriented, and productive members of their communities.
Welcome Message from EdTech
Welcome Message from EdTech
Hello, and welcome to Pomona Unified School District's EdTech website, where we hope to create a one-stop shop for all things 'educational technology.' On this website, you will find resources around our Future Ready Promise District Technology Plan, our Future Ready Promise Schools One-to-One (1:1) Program, the Computer Science/Robotics for All Program, professional learning resources such as videos and how-to guides, digital curriculum reviews/pilots, and much more.
Our mission in Educational Technology is to ensure that all PUSD students have access to technology as a learning tool and that all students are equipped, inspired, and empowered to become their best selves and are college and career-ready when they graduate. To do this, we work to build administrator and teacher capacity in actively utilizing technology for blended and personalized learning within our schools.
Now is the time to fully integrate technology as a tool for deeper student learning while understanding that taking risks, failing forward, and continuing to grow is okay. As Google Education evangelist Jaime Casap has said, "Technology needs to become a more invisible, organic, seamless part of teaching and learning." Most importantly, how we integrate technology into teaching and learning, we are working to ensure that it truly meets the learning needs of PUSD students - and do so with strategy, pedagogy, and purpose. (BOLD School, Weston Kieschnick, 2017)
Your PUSD EdTech Team is here to help everyone on this journey. Please feel free to contact any of us at any time. Please continue to return to this website as we will continue to build and provide resources around educational technology and district initiatives related to EdTech. Could you be sure to follow us on the social media sites below? Please don't hesitate to let us know if there are specific topics or resources that should be added. We are always open to new, innovative ideas that will best serve the PUSD community.
EdTech Team Directory and Contact List
EdTech Team Directory and Contact List
Administration
Dr. Cynthia Sanchez
Director
cynthia.z.sanchez@pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
"Technology will never replace great teachers, but technology in the hands of a great teacher can be transformational." ~George Couros
Vacant
Program Admin
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Teacher Specialist
Genae Fernandez
Teacher Specialist - Elementary
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." ~John D. Rockefeller
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext. 21217
genae.fernandez@apps.pusd.org
@GenaeFernandez
Michael Dyer
Teacher Specialist - Elementary
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"21st century education will be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching - a shift towards learner centered education and creating creative thinkers." ~Karl Fisch
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext. 21217
Rebecca Becerra
Teacher Specialist - Secondary
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow"
~John Dewey
Justin Kirkpatrick
Teacher Specialist - Secondary
justin.kirkpatrick@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
~Plato
Rebecca Bulsombut
Teacher Specialist - Elementary
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rebecca.bulsombut@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
Laura Alikhan
Teacher Specialist - Elementary
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laura.ramirez-Alikhan@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
Technology Support
Omar Enriquez
Technology Specialist
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21215
"Tech gives the quietest student a voice."
~Jerry Blumengarten
Jeffrey Canfield
Technology Specialist
jeffrey.canfield@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21212
"Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing." ~Robin Williams
Jorge Ramirez
Technology Specialist
Jorge.Ramirez@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21218
“Great teaching is the ability to distinguish between what can and needs to be explained and what cannot be explained. The working of a computer needs to be explained as it is made by the human mind. But a butterfly need not always be explained. A butterfly has to be seen with gleaming eyes of wonder as it is a natural expression of life and not of the mind.”
— Debashis Chatterjee
Kyle Payne
Application Specialist
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Kyle.Payne@apps.pusd.org
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21218
“The world's problems cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’” ~President John F. Kennedy
Office Manager
Nereida Vargas
Administrative Secretary II
Nereida.Vargas@pomona.k12.ca.us
Phone: (909) 397-4711 ext 21217
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty” ~Maya Angelou.
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