The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has named approximately 2,400 key education technology staff from Kentucky’s K-12 school districts and the KDE’s Office of Education Technology (OET) as recipients of the 2020-2022 Stilwell Award for their dedication and support of education technology from March 2020 to March 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The awards were given out on March 11th at the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education (KySTE) conference, in April at an Office of Education Technology (OET) Team Huddle, and in May in a virtual meeting for all Kentucky K-12 Education Technology leaders.
The two-year duration of this award honors the unusual conditions that resulted from the epidemic, as well as the critical role that technology staff and faculty performed in supporting the Kentucky educational system.
“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, despite all of the sudden demands, uncertainty, and intensity going on,” said David Couch, associate commissioner in the KDE’s Office of Education Technology.
The Stilwell Award is named after the late William “Bill” E. Stilwell, a veteran faculty member at the University of Kentucky’s College of Education who worked tirelessly throughout his career to enhance access to contemporary technology for Kentucky K-12 educators.
