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ASTE Elections: Nominations are Open

A message from Carlyn Walker, ASTE President-Elect

Winter is upon us and it’s nomination time again. ASTE is on the hunt for motivated, capable and engaged individuals to join our Board starting with the 2023 conference. Do you know someone who could make ASTE better or who could benefit from this experience? Maybe you are the one looking for an opportunity to network and collaborate with a motivated, talented and eclectic group of professionals? Are you or others looking for a way to give back to your professional community? Nominate yourself or others today!

Board Membership requires a few hours a month of your time with a monthly meeting and occasional committee involvements. How much you invest is up to you! In return, you get to work with individuals who are innovators, leaders, and change makers in all realms of education and technology. Maybe it’s time to expand your professional network and come help us impact education across the state. We would love to have you join us at the Spring retreat (usually in April) and help us pull off a stellar conference for 2023!

The following positions are up for nomination:

2-year term

  • Interior Representative
  • Southeast Representative
  • Treasurer
  • Northern Representative

3-year term

  • President-Elect

Click here for job descriptions and please do not hesitate to reach out to me, another board member, member of ASTE, or our Executive Director with any questions!

*Nominations are due by December 19th, 2021.

Click here to fill out survey

2022 Conference Format Member Survey

Here’s your chance to provide input for our 2022 conference format! Complete the survey below! This data will be used to guide our conversations in the October Board Meeting.

Take The Survey!

ASTE Critical Dates & Activities

Critical ASTE Dates 

September

October

  • October 18: Attendee registration open
  • October 18: December 17: ASTE leadership award and student award nominations open

November

  • November 22- December 19: ASTE election nominations open 
  • February 19-22: ASTE 2022 Conference!!!

Dear Superintendent, Federal Programs Director, and ASTE Members, 

Please let me introduce myself! My name is Susan Steele, and I am so blessed to be serving as the ASTE Executive Director. My husband, Andy, and I moved to Alaska in 2009 from East Tennessee for an adventure, and we never left. I have worked in leadership capacities at the state, district, and site levels and began a new journey in my career with ASTE this past March when Genie Siedler retired.

Leaders are awarded with unique opportunities to build others up and create more leaders. When leaders are passionate about something, all things are possible. ASTE’s mission of promoting access to technology, connectivity to information resources, and technology integration for all Alaskan learners is the goal of our annual conference. My hope for you is that the ASTE mission is also something you are passionate about and support through your own participation or through creating a path for staff to participate. 

I am reaching out to you because we need your support to:

  • Consider the best way to secure funding (Title II-A, Title IV-A, COVID Relief) so your district can be represented at ASTE 2022.
  • Encourage your staff who have an area of expertise around technology tools, digital citizenship, innovative design, creative communication, global communication, and crowdsourcing education to submit a call for proposal by November 4th.
  • Nominate and honor those doing exceptionally well with technology integration in your district when our leadership awards open in October (October 18- December 17).
  • Be thinking about who from your district would be a great candidate to serve on the ASTE Board and nominate them when our window opens in November (November 22- December 19).

The ASTE Board will have our second meeting in October to really dig into the conference format and mitigation plan. Final details will be shared as soon as possible. At this time, we are planning on an in-person conference for ASTE 2022 but invite our members to take the survey below to share more about what they would like to see happen.

Thank you in advance for your support! Please let me know what I can do for you!

Susan R. Steele, Ed.S. – Executive Director

Alaska Society for Technology in Education (ASTE)

ASTE Ph: 907-957-2783https://www.aste.org/ 

Present at ASTE 2022

CALL FOR PROPOSAL IS OPEN THROUGH NOV. 4, 2021

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