Recent Bio

Dr. Jamie McKenzie is an international speaker with a focus on questioning,
thinking skills, information literacies and the smart use of new technologies. 
His work takes him from Singapore to Sweden and inspires teachers to challenge
students at a high level of rigor. 

Jamie is the Editor of "From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal," a
publication with some 8,000 subscribers, a third of which are from outside
North America.  He also publishes "The Question Mark," a journal devoted 
to effective questioning and thinking.

In the early nineties, Jamie was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology 
for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools, a district of 18 schools and 10,000 students 
where he helped to pioneer their networking and program development.  
He has moved on to support planning and professional development for schools around the world.

A graduate of Yale with an MA from Columbia and Ed.D. from Rutgers, Jamie has 
been a middle school teacher of English and social studies, an assistant principal, 
an elementary principal, an assistant superintendent in Princeton (NJ) and the 
superintendent of two districts on the East coast.  He also taught four-year-olds in Sunday school.

Jamie has published and spoken extensively on teaching and learning strategies 
designed to transform classrooms to support student centered, engaged learning.  

A full resume is available online at http://fno.org/JM/resume.html
High resolution photographs are available online for downloading at
http://fno.org/JM/resume.html#anchor256763