Finalists announced via the following email:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

First, thank you to all of you for your efforts in applying for the 1:1 Pilot program. The selection committee expressed great pleasure with the quality and attention paid in the applications.

Please also keep in mind that the success of the pilots will pave the way for a second roll-out next year, which will hopefully afford many of you the opportunity to move forward with this program with strategies and programming already established by this first round of sites. We will make all the project documentation available as this progresses so you can be thinking about how to make it work in your districts in the future. (www.k12partners.org will continue to be the main repository for this project)

Based on the averaged scores assessed by the members of the selection committee, the three pilot sites are:

Malheur ESD
High Desert ESD
Northwest Regional ESD


The members of the selection committee were Jim Sager (Policy advisor to Gov. Kulongoski on Education & Workforce), Aaron Ray (Education technology consultant, Clarity Innovations, Inc.), and Kathryn Dysart (Director of Communications, Oregon Community College Assn.).

If applicants wish to have specific feedback on their applications, please contact me directly. I am happy to relay any comments from the scoring sheets.

Congratulations to the three finalists, and to all of you who put so much thought and effort into this process.

My best,

Leslie

Partnership Technology Director
ODE/OAESD