Michele Dawson has 25 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, and technology director. She earned a Master’s Degree in Leading for Equity, Achievement and Democracy. Currently, as Senior Director, Technology and Innovation for Compton Unified, she leads 21st Century Learning and STEAM Initiative. As an accomplished grant writer, Michele was accepted to the League of Innovative Schools, awarded the VILS grant and wrote the EETT grant for PBL with Multimedia, for which she garnered the CSBA Golden Bell Award. Recently ,she was named the Technology Leader of the year for ACSA 14 and the RISE Award from the NSBA.