ISTE's Making IT Happen Award

The Making IT Happen award honors outstanding educators and leaders who demonstrate extraordinary commitment, leadership, courage and persistence in improving digital learning opportunities for students.

Award recipients are educators who:

• Apply available technology now.
• Move forward and don't look back.
• See students are real people.
• Teach through relationships, inspiring, encouraging, and nurturing.
• Recognize that further change is necessary, but understand that it is a process.
• Realize that teacher empowerment is the key element to technology that is a process.
• expect success.
• Motivate through awareness and access to information.