Beth Holmes

Current

• Education and Instructional Specialist at GA/AL DDESS

Past

• Director, Center for Quality Teaching and Learning at Columbus State University
• Program Coordinator, State Data and Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology

Education

• Troy University

Recommended

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Connections

20 connections

Industry

Education Management

Beth Holmes’s Summary

Beth Holmes is a professional learning specialist with background in design and delivery of educational professional development programs for pre-kindergarten – post-secondary educators at local and state levels and for corporate industries including International Business Machines (IBM) and Lexia Learning Systems. With over twenty years experience in teaching, school leadership, and professional learning, Beth has designed curricula for elementary students, pre-service and in-service educators and school administrators. She has managed customized professional development programs for schools, school systems, and state certification initiatives and coordinated training and curricula for a state network of educational technology training centers.
As a consultant and conference presenter on topics related to innovations in education, Beth has been an invited guest speaker at the National Governor’s Association Policy Conference, the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia and at the National Educational Computing Conference. Beth was a contributing member of the Writing Committee for the International Society for Technology in Education’s (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and authored articles published in ISTE’s official journal Learning and Leading with Technology and in NCREL’s NewsWire magazine.

Beth Holmes’s Specialties:

Reading Specialist, Instructional Technology Specialist, 21st Century Teaching and Learning Specialist

Beth Holmes’s Experience

• Education and Instructional Specialist

  GA/AL DDESS

  (Education Management industry)

  July 2008 — Present (6 months)

  Responsible for implementing programs leading to 21st Century teaching and student learning.

• Director, Center for Quality Teaching and Learning

  Columbus State University

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)

  January 2004 — June 2008 (4 years 6 months)

  • Established and operated professional development center for service to P-12 educators, university faculty, and teacher candidates
  • Designed, authored and administered a P-20 federally funded, regional reading improvement initiative with documented improvement in P-12 teaching and student learning
  • Designed and coordinated regional 21st Century Teaching and Learning initiative

• Program Coordinator, State Data and Research Center

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  (Government Agency; Education Management industry)

  January 2002 — January 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  • Coordinated state-level technology professional development and teacher certification initiative
  • Coordinated professional development programs for 13 state-funded Educational Technology Training Centers
  • Designed, authored and administered one state-level federally funded Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology grant project

Beth Holmes’s Education

• Troy University

  EdS, Elementary Education, 1992 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  • Presidential Scholar

Additional Information

Beth Holmes’s Groups:

•    International Society for Technology in Education

Beth Holmes’s Honors:

Columbus State University “Hall of Fame” 2007 College of Education, Columbus State University
“Woman of Achievement 2000” Columbus Status of Women
ISTE NETS for Teachers Curriculum Writing Team 2000 International Society for Technology in Education

Beth Holmes’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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