Thinkfinity is the merger of two highly acclaimed Verizon Foundation programs: MarcoPolo and the Verizon Literacy Network. It is a partnership between the Foundation and leading educational organizations. Its objective is to provide the highest quality content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States. The Thinkfinity Consortium includes both content partners and state networks to facilitate professional development and alignment of Thinkfinity lessons to state curriculum standards.

ThinkfinityNY

The New York State Teacher Centers and the New York Institute of Technology are responsible for the rollout of Thinkfinity in New York state. The goals of ThinkfinityNY include communicating information about Thinkfinity, arranging trainings, tracking quality and progress against goals, and aligning Thinkfinity content with New York State Learning Standards. To date, over 22,000 NYS teachers have been trained in the use of the Thinkfinity resources and 3,000+ lessons and resources have been aligned to New York State Learning Standards. For more about our history, please view the MarcoPolo in New York Video. To learn more about what Thinkfinity in New York is doing today, please click on the quick link to the right.

and Beyond

Over the course of the next few months, we will be adding new resources to this site, including New York teacher created unit and lesson plans developed through the Intel® Teach Program and from trainings ongoing throughout the state on Smart Technologies, as well as from NYIT's Educational Enterprise Zone® , a consortium of museums, cultural institutions, research centers, corporations and school districts who develop and offer NYS standards-based videoconferencing and other programming. The Technology Placement Program helps NY teachers bring advanced technologies home, and supplies the professional and technical support needed to maximize benefits to both teachers and students.

The Intel® Teach Program is a proven, worldwide professional development program that helps educators enhance 21st century learning through the effective use of technology. Visit the site and check out some of Intel's neat interactive tools.

White boards have become an increasingly popular technology tool in the classroom. Smart Technologies pioneered them and continues to add remarkable features to their capabilities. To learn more about Smart Board and its use in the classroom visit their education site.

The Educational Enterprise Zone® of the New York Institute of Technology members work collaboratively to bring content experts into the PreK - 12 classroom through interactive videoconferencing programming. For more information and a listing of their over 300 participating organizations, visit the EEZ website.

To support New York teachers in the use of technology in the classroom, Intel, the New York Institute of Technology, New York State Teacher Centers, Microsoft, Adobe and Dell sponsor the Technology Placement Program (TPP) . This new program offers reduced-price computer bundles and software as well as professional development and computer support. NY teachers can learn more about the program by clicking here.

Contact Us

Phone: (631) 348 - 3317

FAX: (631) 348 - 3399

Thinkfinity State Rollout Leader
and Administrator
ThinkfinityNY and Beyond Administrator

Stan Silverman
New York Institute of Technology
InterCounty Teacher Resource Center

Thinkfinity State Web and Alignment Coordinator
ThinkfinityNY and Beyond WebAuthor

Karen Mack
New York Institute of Technology

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Thinkfinity State Training Coordinators

Catalina Fortino
New York City

David Parzych
All Other Regions

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Intel Teach® NY Affiliates

Nancy Mazzella
New York City

Debbie Costello
Long Island

Bob Hazen
All Other Regions