Lifelong educator Rick Reece has been involved in using technology in the classroom for more than 25 years. He currently works as a consultant assisting teachers to integrate technology into learning and teaching and he maintains the District’s web portal.

In addition, Rick is a trainer for Apple Computer. In the past couple of years, he has delivered technology related workshops and project-based learning workshops in more than 30 states.

He retired this past June from Broward County Schools, where he worked in the Department of Instructional Technology working directly with student and teacher to integrate technology into Project-Based learning.

Although Rick retired from Broward, he spent most of his career in Miami-Dade Schools holding various District-level positions. He developed and coordinated Dade's Apple Web Design Academies, designed and managed their Education Portals, was District Webmaster, and did technology training. Before the district level, Rick spent 17 years in schools. He coached Cross Country and Track and taught senior high Language Arts for 9 years before receiving his Computer Science Education MS in 1983. After that he taught computer related courses at both the high school and university levels.

Rick has received recognition for his efforts, having been named both an Adobe Education Leader and an Apple Distinguished Educator. This is his 25th consecutive year teaching workshops at the Florida Educational Technology Conferences (FETC) and he has also taught them at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC ... now ISTE), at the Innovative Learning Conference (ILC), and at the ISTE Tel-Ed Conference.