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Thank you to the many Mouse educators who submitted thoughtful, high-quality proposals for this unique opportunity - we were overwhelmed by the positive response and interest. Our team carefully reviewed every application, working to build a balanced cohort of squads from across the national network with diverse demographics and tech experience levels. Without further ado, congratulations to the following Mouse Squad educators who have been selected to join us in NYC this July for the first ever Mouse & Mozilla Webmaker Summer Institute:

• Aletta Sauer @ South Fork Junior/Senior High School in Miranda, CA
• Ashleigh Jensen @ Kuna Middle School in Kuna, Idaho
• Ben Badurina @ Lewis and Clark School in Bronx, NY
• Christine Lee @ PS 89 Cypress Hills Community School in Brooklyn, NY
• Dannah Steele @ Normandy School District in St. Louis, Missouri
• Iris Clyne @ Mouse Squad of California
• Joel Lederer @ High School for Language and Diplomacy in New York, NY
• Katina Krekoukis @ David A. Boody IS 228 in Brooklyn, NY
• Kimberely Boyd @ Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Chicago, IL
• Lou Lahana @ The Island School in New York, NY
• Patti Elfers-Wygand & Lori Stahl-Van Brackle @ Halsey Junior High School in Rego Park, NY
• Suprabha Malhar & Adrian Sookchan @ Academy for Language and Technology in Bronx, NY

About the Institute:

Mouse and Mozilla are joining forces to ready a Webmaking movement in schools across the US. The Webmaker Summer Institute is a 2-day intensive PD event for a selected cohort of Mouse Coordinators, who - along with their team of Webmaker youth - will become Webmaker evangelists for their school community in the fall.

WHY TEACH THE WEB?

In 15 years working at the intersection of learning and technology, Mouse has seen - and been an influencing part of - the field’s evolving obsession with “new literacies” emerging from the tools, practices, and culture of digital life. The Web, however, has long outlived mere faddism and yet the field of education has done little to help frame it’s tools, practices, and culture as a legitimate domain to help educators and learners focus on building critical skills and competencies. No group of educators is better prepared to help further the mission of building web literacies than the Coordinators of Mouse’s program network.
The Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that Mozilla, Mouse and a large community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web. Go to WebMaker.org for more info on the Teach the Web movement.