Jim Klein

Who am I?

Jim Klein is the Director of Information Services and Technology for the Saugus Union School District, a position he has held for nearly 14 years. Through over two decades of IT experience, Mr. Klein has become widely renowned as an aggressive technology leader, particularly in the areas of open source and social media. Not only does he vigorously pursue technologies that he believes will make a significant difference in the lives of students, teachers, and staff, but he also actively challenges his peers to do the same through dozens conference presentations and sharing of information, tools, and best-practices. Mr. Klein freely gives the fruit of his labor to others, and selflessly offers assistance that drives similar success in their schools and districts. He has written a number of articles for industry magazines, advocates for education technology personally within his state and on capital hill, and serves on a number of national and international committees and panels. Mr Klein has been recognized as a T.H.E. Journal Innovator, NetworkWorld All Star, and a National School Boards Association "20 to watch" educator.

Current and former associations:

Chair CoSN K12 Open Technologies Initiative
Advisor CoSN MacArthur Grant Project: Effective Use of Web 2.0 in Schools
Member California Dept. of Education Brokers of Expertise Implementation Team
Member CoSN K12 School Networking Conference Committee
Member CUE Legislative Advocacy Committee
Advisor Technology & Learning's Tech Forum West
Advisory Board Member, SearchEnterpriseLinux Magazine
Advisory Board Member, SearchServerVirtualization Magazine
CUE, ISTE, CoSN, and CETPA member

Short list of project involvement:
cosn.org
k12opentech.org
edtechactionnetwork.org
elgg.org
CA Brokers of Expertise

Various technology adventures have been well covered by the media.

Jim has spoken on a variety of topics at various locations across the United States, including at such prestigious educational institutions as Harvard University and schools of education in the University of California system. He has also been featured at CoSN's Annual School Networking Conference, the ISTE National Education Computing Conference (NECC,) the National School Boards Association (NSBA) T+L conference, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Ed Tech Industry Summit, the Community College Foundation's TechEd Conference, Iowa and Minnesota State Education Technology Directors Summits, the Georgia Education Technology Conference (GaETC,) the California Education Technology Professionals Associaion (CETPA) Annual Conference, the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education (NYSCATE) Leadership Summit, the Red Hat Summit, and a variety of other meetings, webcasts, and events.

Speaking engagements (Winter/Spring 2010) include: Ohio Free-Tech in Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo, NetworkWorld IT Roadmap (Long Beach), Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) International Conference (Washington D.C.), Computer Using Educators (CUE) Annual Conference (Palm Springs), Leadership 3.0 Symposium 2010 (Santa Clara, CA)