Partnership for 21st Century Skills Logo
about
Paige Johnson Print

Global Manager, K-12 Education
Intel Corporate Affairs

Paige Johnson, Global Manager of K-12 education for Intel’s Corporate Affairs Group, is responsible for the Intel® Teach Program. A worldwide professional development initiative that helps educators integrate computer technology effectively in their schools. This research-proven program has trained more than 6 million teachers in over 60 countries. Under her management, the curriculum remains on the leading edge of meeting 21st century education needs by providing a series of innovative teacher professional development offerings as well as productivity and thinking tools. All materials are free to educators in more than 15 languages at www.intel.com/education.

Paige Johnson serves on the Steering Committee of the National Assessment Governing Board on Technological Literacy. The committee is comprised of experts who are in a position to define the new framework and test specifications for the 2012 NAEP Technological Literacy assessment.

Paige has also served for three years on the International Society of Technology and Education’s (ISTE) advisory board for the NETs standards. This work provides a framework for ICT literacy for students, teachers and administrators in the US.

Now in the position of Past Chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Board, in 2009 Paige led this coalition of business, education and policymakers that has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education.

Paige holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology from Willamette University and a Masters Degree in Science Education from Portland State University. She has almost two decades of experience successfully envisioning, launching, scaling, and evaluating education programs. She sees technology as a critical tool to access, organize and analyze information, and to communicate and collaborate with others to create new innovations that add value to peoples’ lives – and is a focal point, aligning experts from all fields toward her vision of 21st century teaching and learning.