Community Connected By Bethany Stotler, Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing
Planning Today for Foxcroft's Tomorrows
Keeping Our
Norko (in green) poses with Foxcroft’s tech team (l-r): Judy Gamboa, Merrilyn Saint, Alex Northrup, and Paul Mawyer.
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hat’s the one thing that connects all of our strategic priorities? Technology, quite literally! That is why Director of Technology Matt Norko and his team — Judy Gamboa (IT and A/V Help Desk Support), Paul Mawyer (Data & Systems Support Specialist), Alex Northrup (Director of the Innovation Lab), and Merrilyn Saint (Network Technology Specialist) — are in the process of executing a new technology plan that prioritizes flexibility and sustainability for the entire community.
1. Enhance Technology Use in the Classroom Working collaboratively with teaching faculty and the Academic Office, Norko and his team have a two-fold approach to enhancing the learning experience from a technology standpoint — looking both at a curriculum map for tech skills by graduation and the timeline with which equipment needs to be maintained, a “refresh cycle” if you will.
Aligning with Foxcroft's Portrait of a Graduate (Priority 1), the team is working to “identify the most promising technological tools and support their adoption” by pinpointing what hardware and software students should learn while at Foxcroft, in which classes, and to what extent before walking through Miss Charlotte’s Garden and out into the world. Continued on page 24
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