Senior Advisor
Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Dr. Helen Soulé is the former Executive Director of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21), and now serves as a Senior Advisor where she works closely with P21's State Partners and the 21st Century Learning Exemplar Program. She is a frequent presenter on 21st century learning at national and regional education conferences and events, most recently at the American Association of School Administrators national education conference, and the National Council on Social Studies conference.
Soulé is a longtime educator with P-16 leadership experience at the local, state and national level. She is a former elementary school teacher and district level administrator in Mississippi. At the state level, she served as director of the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Technology, with responsibilities ranging from education technology and management information services to textbooks and teacher professional development. At the national level, Soulé served as chief of staff to the assistant secretary for the Office of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education and Executive Director of Cable in the Classroom, the cable and telecommunication industry’s education foundation.
Soulé served on numerous boards that focus on the 21st century learning, including the George Lucas Educational Foundation Advisory Board, the Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education National Board. She was a founding member of the State Educational Technology Directors Association and the recipient of several awards, including Converge magazine's 30 "Shapers of the Future" award, E-School News "Impact 30 Award for Excellence", and the Mississippi Educational Computing Association’s Technology Educator of the Year award.
Soulé holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Mississippi State University, M.A. in Educational Administration from Mississippi State University and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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