Kerry Gallagher

Kerry Gallagher is a Digital Learning Specialist at a 1:1 iPad school serving 1500
students grades 6-12. She is also the Director of K-12 Education for ConnectSafely.org. Prior to taking on a full-time instructional technology role, Kerry taught middle and high school history in Bring Your Own Device public schools for 13 years. She was best known for her paperless collaborative classroom model, and has helped schools create student-driven technology integration programs. Kerry received the 2014 Yale-Lynn Hall Teacher Action Research Prize for her submission on the use of mobile devices for a paperless public school classroom and is a 2015 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator. Also in 2015, the Family Online Safety Institute recognized her with the Outstanding Achievement Award and she was a MassCUE Featured Educator. Kerry speaks and presents often about the effective use of technology in the classroom at conference locations that have included Harvard Law School, Yale School of Management, and Stanford University. In addition to Smarter Schools Project, Kerry writes for EdSurge and ConnectSafely. She holds a B.A. in Politics from Saint Anselm College and J.D. from Massachusetts School of Law. Her blog is Start with a Question and she is on Twitter @KerryHawk02.

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