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In an effort to help our community become more sustainable, the Portland City Council recently adopted a new goal for businesses to recycle 75% of their waste. Having already undertaken a program to emphasize reducing, reusing and recycling, Clarity Innovations has been recognized as Recycle at Work certified by the City of Portland.

With a new year comes new opportunities.  We're hiring.  Visit the Careers section for details regularly over the coming weeks for new positions in several areas.

Now in its second decade, the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference (ITSC) is unlike most professional development events.  Instead of the usual "sit and get" approach, the premise of ITSC is active learning, with ample hands-on practice time and continuous dialog between facilitators and teams of participants from around the Pacific Northwest.  ITSC is produced by the Organization for Educational Technology and Curriculum (OETC).

Bellingham Public Schools launches a new district calendar this month, endorsing Clarity Innovations' recommendation. One of the most overlooked challenges a school district faces each fall is event and calendar management for multiple venues and programs.  Based on Bellingham's requirements, we evaluated a comprehensive list of commercial and open source calendaring systems available to schools and ultimately favored Tandem for Schools. Contact us if you would like an executive summary of our research and analysis of solutions for school calendar management.

Recognizing our unique perspective on the education market, the EdNET Awards Committee has invited Thor Prichard, our President & CEO, to join the panel of judges that recognize organizations annually for their work and impact on students, teachers and the education market. EdNET brings together the education industry's leaders, experts and key players for sharing and discussing trends and strategies for improving education. The event takes place in Chicago this September. Nominations for awards are due in June.

In January, Thor Prichard, President and CEO of Clarity Innovations, will travel to Japan to gather data about current trends in mobile devices and their use by youth informally with peers and their presence in formal educational environments.  This expedition will follow up on earlier findings gathered in January, 2001. If you are interested in learning more about the results of this longitudinal work, please contact us.

In case you haven't noticed recently, we've been expanding our team of hybrid expertise in education and technology.  This is due in part to expanded engagements and services in the field of education content development.  For example, we're developing new curriculum for helping educators make effective use of laptops now increasingly being deployed through 1:1 initiatives.  We're also working on materials for a client to help leaders in education champion professional development in technology integration.  It's going to be a busy spring here at Clarity Innovations.