Kimberly Kettler

Kettler’s innovative idea, “Interactive Whiteboard/Technology Integration,” is designed to help fill the technology gap in the schools, especially in math classrooms. The school system adopted a program for students to have Chromebooks, but that is where the technology support ends, according to Kettler. Although there are projectors and document cameras in the classroom, they are not enough. The Voya Unsung Heroes grant will be used to buy an interactive whiteboard that will allow the class to collaborate at the board, walk through examples and practice problems together, thus allowing students to be interactive with their math in a way that’s different from paper and pencil. Kettler says with the students’ digital assignments on various websites, the new technology will also make it easier to walk students through their digitally displayed math problems.