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Tech and Learning Website, “The
conversation brought together K-12
thought leaders from around the
country” to share ideas about what
their schools are doing.
Dugan said besides having a chance
to hear from various presenters, they
participated in work groups that
covered topics that included Flipped
and Blended Learning, Strategic
Planning, and Preparing Students for
Tomorrow’s Workforce.
When Dugan was chosen to attend
the summit, he was “very humbled
and honored to be chosen to attend”
and was “excited to share the NH-M
story of how we are successfully
using technology as one of many
important tools in our district’s
ongoing efforts to combat barriers to
learning as a result of high poverty,
high mobility, and rapid educational
changes.”
He said the Tech & Learning group,
a resource for education technology
professionals, is interested in doing a
case study on the district because it is
small and agriculturally based.
In early February, Dugan, along
with retired teacher Lynn Corley
and NH-M board member Karen
Davison, presented in Chicago at
the annual No Child Left Behind
See the excitement on first-grader faces
as they use their iPads to “write code” for
Christmas tree light patterns in Washington
D.C.
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Conference for elementary and secondary
educators. At that conference, they shared
the ways in which the NH-M school has
successfully engaged the community. An
article about the conference stated that the
presentation “highlighted the successes
of this rural, high poverty district in the
past three years as the district has used
unorthodox ways of mobilizing the
