Curriculum Director, Thornburg Center for Space Science EducationBonnie Bracey Sutton is an educational consultant with a wide range of experience working for change in education. In addition to her work with the Thornburg Center, she is also curriculum director for the Agora, a participating organization in the World Summit on Media for Children in Europe. An award-winning teacher and agent for change, she has worked nationally and internationally on digital-divide and gender-equity issues in education. In that vein, she chairs the Digital Equity special interest group of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and cochairs the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), a component of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Previously, Bracey Sutton traveled the United States for CyberEd, a project of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council intended to spread awareness and use of new technologies. She was appointed to this position by President Bill Clinton and served under the direction of Vice President Gore. She has worked internationally with the United Nations, working to share best practices in technology use among developing nations, and was a participant in the World Summit on the Information Society meetings. In this role, she worked in 22 countries around the world, helping them to reach United Nations goals for reading literacy.
Bracey Sutton has won a number of significant awards and fellowships throughout her career in the classroom and as a consultant. In her teaching career, she was awarded 42 different grants, the most significant being online Internet institute funding from the National Science Foundation. She is the recipient of a Presidential Award in Math and Science Teaching, and she was the only K-12 teacher on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, which set the standards for educational uses of technology in the United States. She was a Christa McAuliffe Educator for the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) and a NASA Challenger Fellow. She served on the advisory board for the George Lucas Educational Foundation for ten years and still does occasional outreach for the foundation, and she worked with the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to produce a book on best practices for integrating technology into education.
ETC Publications
Teaching with Technology: Passion, Scholarship, and a Leap of Faith
The President’s Town Hall Meeting Could Have Been Entitled ‘No Teacher Left Behind’
Michelle Rhee Has a Broom: Should She Use It to Sweep Out Experienced Teachers?
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