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Cailin Carlson Honored with 2025 ASSET Bright Lights Award

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The district is #MineolaProud to congratulate Cailin Carlson on being recognized with the 2025 Bright Lights Award by the Association of Suffolk Supervisors for Educational Technologies (ASSET). This award honors educators for their exemplary integration of technology into the educational environment.

Throughout her nine years with the district, Ms. Carlson has proven herself to be a talented educator who is passionate about redefining what learning looks like in the classroom. In her role as a teacher in the gifted education program, as well as delivering academic intervention services to Mineola's most challenged learners, she is skilled at pushing students to high levels and motivating them to become problem solvers and designers of their own learning experience.

Ms. Carlson has been a leader in Mineola’s design thinking committee and a pioneer of the district's Artificial Intelligence implementation, utilizing it with students and teachers alike. In both roles, Ms. Carlson values high expectations as well as developing the whole child-learners to build academic and reasoning skills while learning how to collaborate, problem solve, compromise and manage one's own time and resources.

The award was presented at the ASSET Bright Lights Luncheon on Jan. 24 at the Heritage Club in Bethpage.

Date Added: 1/27/2025

Apple Distinguished School District

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The district is #MineolaProud to announce that we have been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School District.  

Mineola is one of only 18 districts worldwide to be recognized with this designation.

School districts are selected for this distinction based on their commitment to continuous innovation in education across all schools in the system, and using Apple products to inspire, imagine, and impact teaching and learning districtwide. 

Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of leadership and educational excellence, with a clear vision for how technology-rich environments support learning goals. In Apple Distinguished Schools, forward-thinking leaders and their communities work to inspire, imagine, and impact teaching and learning, and they have documented results of academic accomplishments.

Schools all over the world are using iPad and Mac to transform learning. As teachers incorporate technology into their lessons, they empower students to lead, learn, and thrive, to discover new opportunities, and to make their world a better place.

We share this honor with every teacher, administrator, learner and member of the Mineola school community who remain focused every day on achieving excellence and setting the standard for the future of education.

Date Added: 11/1/2024