Cheryl Lemke, CEO, Metiri Group
Cheryl Lemke is President and CEO of the Metiri Group. Ms. Lemke specializes in public policy for K-12 learning technology, working at a variety of levels with governors,
legislators, superintendents, business leaders, and teachers. She brings 25 years of experience in the public sector-as a teacher, technology coordinator, cabinet member at a state education agency-and the non-profit sector prior to her work with the Metiri Group. Ms. Lemke currently works with both the public and private sectors at the state and national level. This includes projects related to assessment of technology impacts on learning; gauging the progress of states, districts, and schools with educational technology; conducting program evaluations; convening national experts in discussions on policy issues; and designing and prototyping educational technology frameworks. As of 2006 Metiri serves as a partner in the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, conducting, reviewing, and reporting educational research. She recently authored two reports commissioned by Cisco Systems, Technology in Schools: What the Research Says, and Multimodal Learning through Media: What the Research Says.

Through Metiri Group, Ms. Lemke provides consulting services, evaluation and research services, and public speaking and writing. She keynotes conferences at the state, national, and international levels; and presented internationally in China, Singapore, and Australia. She is the author of the National Trends Report used in 2005 in over 100 Congressional hearings and meetings on the NCLB Title II D federal program; and an architect of Metiri's Technology Solutions That Work, interactive database used by many states as evidence to drive practice, the designer behind three national frameworks on effective technology use that are used in thousands of schools today, including enGauge which was commissioned by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, and a new framework released by Metiri in 2008 on 21st Century leaning. She also co-authored the definitive work on 21st century skills that was published by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. She is trusted and respected by the education community for her work from policy to research and practice.







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