My goal for this web site is to provide a modest forum for me and others to talk about education and technology in education.

Earlier in my career, I never thought I'd be involved in education. I liked the corporate space, and I especially liked the profits that corporations have - and are able to spend - to solve business technology problems. However, public K-12 education in the U.S. isn't like that. There's very little money available, which tends to drive away some really smart people who would otherwise love to spend some of their brainpower and energy solving the multitudes of nasty problems in education. Even when there IS money, politics, and a lack of commitment will bring you down.

But a strange thing happened to me. I found some people with talent and vision, and even a little bit of money. First it started with Tom Saka at the Hawaii Department of Education. He is a visionary, currently focused on the aggregation and use of education-based data. Then I was fortunate enough to meet Jim Stigler, Ron Gallimore, and lots of other really smart people at LessonLab (now Pearson Achievement Solutions), and also at the LessonLab Research Institute. LessonLab allowed me to take my practical experience at building corporate applications, and then try to find ways to bring some of that application experience to the K-12 space. Back in 2000 when I started working with LessonLab, I was so naive. Now, eight years later, I am still learning what can, and cannot, be done in education, and specifically, technology in education.