Award Will Further High-Tech Ambitions
During the last decade, Gwen Davis has had a high-tech vision for the Orange Unified School District: to promote technology as a learning tool.
For her educational efforts, Davis recently received a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award and $25,000, which she will use to pursue a doctorate in administration with an emphasis on technology.
Davis is among 150 recipients nationwide of the 1997 award.
“I was very shocked, but it’s an honor and a privilege,” she said. “But everything takes teamwork . . . and we all work so hard for the kids.”
Davis began teaching in the district in 1986 at El Rancho Middle School in Anaheim, and later oversaw Canyon High School’s media center and technology programs.
She is now the education technology coordinator for the district’s 38 schools.
“I’m working on getting all the schools online and that technology is integrated in the curriculum,” she said.
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