FCITL Awards: Technology Advocate of the Year

Awardees
2003* Judy Ambler Pinellas County
2004
*The first award was called the FCITL President's Award.
The Florida Council of Instructional Technology Leaders (FCITL) Technology Advocate of the Year Award is designed to highlight excellent efforts of district educational technology leaders that have demonstrated successful program implementations utilizing technology to further student achievement. Student achievement is defined as it relates to any number of measures (FCAT preparation, student/teacher technology literacy, classroom technology integration, bridging the digital divide, etc.).

The main goals of this program are:
• to provide a forum for recognizing outstanding district leaders in the area of educational technology.
• to share and promote best practice educational technology implementations within our group as well as with other leaders and decision-makers throughout the state and nation.
• to bring further awareness of our FCITL organization's mission goals:

- sharing and promoting effective uses of technology
- identifying and securing resources
- improving teacher preparation and accountability
- positively influencing legislation and policies