Debora R. Morgan
Debora R. Morgan, the Director of Technology for the Barnstable Horace Mann Charter School, has provided leadership in the fields of Educational Technology, Informational Technology, and Web Design since 1987 when she began teaching at CCCC (Cape Cod Community College) as an adjunct professor. During the eighteen years that followed, she also taught at Barnstable High School, Salem State, Anna Maria College, and Western New England College. In 1998 Debora accepted the position of Director of Technology for the Bourne Public School System where she served for one year until the Barnstable Grade 5 School was awarded a charter. There Debora applied for and was awarded the newly-created position of Technology Director with an emphasis on data-driven instruction, and since that time she has been the changing force behind the Technology advances of her school.
While employed at the Barnstable Horace Mann Charter School, Debora has brought wireless technology to her school, created a shared-web-based infrastructure, implemented a 120 Student Technology Team; and through professional development, workshops, and mentoring, has nurtured a systemic change in the way the Barnstable HMCS staff views and uses technology. Through grants, donated software and hardware, surplus government equipment, and an e-rate program, Debora was responsible for the procurement of more than $435,000 in funding and resources, to date, for the support of her school's technology goals. In addition, she designed and maintains her school's Web site, trained Barnstable District Technology Assistants in using Alpha Smarts, and runs an annual curriculum and technology Summer Institute attended by sixty percent of her school's staff.
Debora has been widely interviewed and quoted in several publications including Eschool News (Best Practices) and Learning and Leading with Technology. She twice presented at the DOE Spring Technology Conference, and was also a presenter at MassCUE's annual conferences in 2003 and 2004. Her philosophy is, "Command Technology to do the greatest good for the greatest number."