Larry Taylor honored for exemplary leadership, selected to speak
Larry Taylor, faculty member in the Department of Communication, was honored by the Ashe County School Board for Exemplary Leadership.
The award came as recognition for Taylor’s role in supporting student newspapers at Westwood Elementary and Ashe County Middle School. Both schools’ newspapers were recently honored as newspapers of distinction by The North Carolina Scholastic Media Association for work during 2008-2009. Taylor works with the student newspapers as part of an effort he began in 2006 called The Student Newspaper Project.
Taylor also has been invited to be a plenary speaker at the 2009 “Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference” Dec. 5-6 at Northeastern University in Boston.
The honor comes as a result of Taylor winning an International Award for Excellence for his publication, “Tech Pushers: Making Administrators into Tech Integration Facilitators.” The article was first presented at the 2008 conference held in Chicago and then published in the second edition of the corresponding journal, Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal. Taylor was then notified in April that the editors and the International Advisory Board had selected the paper as the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of learning and education. The article focuses on the role of administrators in technology integration in primary and secondary public school systems.