Candidate Info/Goal Statement

Hello, I am Dena Dellere, and this is my twelfth year in education and my second year at Clark Middle School as an Innovate Technology Integrationist. My background has a wide variety of experience, starting with classroom instruction in middle school and high school math and computer science. Until working for USD 204, most of my experience has been in smaller rural areas in Western Kansas. I had many different classroom preps and extra duties, including the Technology Coordinator at three different districts. I was instrumental in technology decisions, training, and maintaining equipment.

I also have outside expertise as I spent ten years selling technology integration solutions to K-12, Higher Ed, and Healthcare in Kansas. This experience kept me very close to education and technology. It allowed me to be at the forefront of emerging technology solutions for better communication, security, and collaboration in the K-12 environment.

In the past seven years, I spent most of my time researching, recommending, implementing, and maintaining a 1:1 environment for Chromebooks, Macbooks, Windows Laptops, and iPads. My belief is to expose students to many different applications and software to give students a wide variety. My passion is to work closely with educators and students in the classroom to elevate learning with technology when it makes sense and helps students learn beyond the classroom walls by building a global community and an authentic audience. I have helped them realize success in these areas using resources such as FlipGrid, Google Apps for Education, Wakelet, PearDeck, Quizziz, SeeSaw, WeVideo, Breakout EDU, and Screencastify to name a few resources. My strength is helping educators utilize technology to strengthen student learning of content, all while encouraging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication.

As the District Technologist at USD 274 Oakley, I built our Google Apps for Education implementation from the ground up. To support this level of expertise, I am certified as Google Administrator and still maintain a training Google Domain as a Google Education Certified Trainer, where I educate students and teachers around the state of Kansas, other U.S. states, and also globally. I have been hired to present to school districts during professional development days, presented at four Google Summits, presented at MACE for three years, and presented at TCEA.

Personally, I am married with three adult children, two daughters, and one son. I am blessed with three beautiful grandchildren, one granddaughter, and two grandsons. My husband and I farm and ranch in Western Kansas.