Discovery Education Speakers Bureau
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
Supporting the most effective use of technology in classrooms and schools
Scott Kinney is a tireless advocate and strong voice in support of the creative and effective application of educational technologies and digital content in America’s schools. With a rich background spanning from the classroom to the boardroom, he currently is the Vice President of Outreach and Professional Development for Discovery Education.
Kinney began his career as a Technology Specialist at the Central Columbia School District (PA), where he helped teachers integrate educational technologies into their classroom activities. Soon, he was named District Instructional Technology Coordinator for the Sharpsville Area School District (PA), where he worked with educators to create district-wide plans to
encourage the use of educational technologies in schools.
Kinney’s next role was as Director of Educational Technologies at the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit (PA). During his tenure at the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit, he founded and nurtured a new department specifically designed to support local Eastern Pennsylvania school districts in the effective integration of technology into curriculum.
In his current position at Discovery Education, Kinney serves as the company’s educational liaison for public policy, frequently addressing audiences around the world about the positive role educational technology can play in improving student achievement.
He has presented at numerous national education conferences, offering teachers classroom tested strategies for leveraging educational technologies and digital content to improve student engagement in learning. Conferences at which he has presented include the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) including keynote presentations at the Center for Advancing Partnerships in Education (CAPE) conference, Virginia’s EdTech conference and the Maryland K12 Digital Library Summit.
In June of 2009, Kinney was invited to testify before the U.S. House of Representative’s Education and Labor Committee on the future of education in America. In his testimony, Kinney passionately called on all levels of government to accelerate their support for the use of rich digital content in schools.
Kinney is a frequent contributor to national education publications and has co-authored multiple articles about using technology as a tool to help differentiate instruction including: “Creating a Differentiated Classroom,” which appeared in Leading and Learning with Technology and “Teaching Every Child,” which appeared in the Discovery Education Classroom Resource Guide.
In addition to Kinney’s public policy and professional development work, he also oversees the Discovery Educator Network (DEN), a global community of more than 100,000 educators dedicated to supporting education through digital media and educational technology. Kinney has taught aspiring teachers at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is also the architect of an innovative partnership with Wilkes University, whereby educators across the nation have the opportunity to
earn a Master of Science in Instructional Media through a fully online, 30 credit degree program.
