As part of an activity of the Selection Committee for the Golden Apple Foundation, we were all asked to use three post-its and write three words that best describe what the committee was looking for the 2013 Golden Apple Fellows. This best frames what the group of sixty-odd educators, from current educators and administers, college
I am giddy over the upcoming “Beyond these Times: Reimagining Schools: Conversations with the Future in Mind,” is taking place at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Monday, March 18, 2013 from 6:30-8:00pm. Dr. James Gee, a researcher and renowned author of the new book “ The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning” (January
I have a yearly doctor’s appointment and it is always the dreaded “scale” that I obsess about. Each year, I vow THIS is the year I will lose the weight. Every year I tend to gain three to four pounds, then add that up over twenty years it is around forty to fifty pounds. My
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
