Fife's Director of Technology, Cindy Agnew, Recognized for

Her Work on National Educational Initiatives

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Terry Bergeson, made a surprise visit to the Fife School Board's September Meeting. She recognized Cindy Agnew for her involvement with the IT Career Cluster Initiative, a national project 2000-2003. Boston's EDC group contacted OSPI and invited Washington State to be one of eight states and begin the development of K-12 national model for K-12 technology users and Grades 9-College technology producers. Cindy was instrumental in the initial development of the actual IT model. Also, she was instrumental in developing partnerships with Oracle, Macromedia, Microsoft and Adobe. Each developed curriculum materials that aligned to national standards. Much of this work is now used across our nation and UK. For more information and resources about the IT Career project and the other career clusters, go to http://www.careerclusters.org or Education Development Center, Inc (EDC) http://www.edc.org/ewit.

We are proud of you, Cindy!

Historical Information:
Sponsored by the United States Department of Education and the National School to Work Office, the IT Career Cluster Initiative is a partnership of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), and the National Alliance of Business (NAB) to create a national model and career cluster curricular framework for IT careers that involve the design, development, support and management of hardware, software, multimedia and systems integration services.