Michele Norman
Michele Norman is Vice President of Education Strategy & Advocacy for FableVision, the award-winning Boston-based multimedia design and development firm committed to education reform and social change through positive media, storytelling and technology.
With more than twenty years of experience in education and technology policy and planning in D.C. as well as at the state and local level, Michele serves as a liaison between FableVision's media and technology development studio and its Learning Group, which provides technology tools and professional development services to K-12 schools worldwide. In addition to helping advance FableVisions's strategic ventures, Michele works to secure grant, philanthropic, corporate and government funding to expand the scope and scale of the company's tools and resources that promote academic achievement through creativity in teaching and learning. Michele also aims to increase FableVision's visibility and profile in state and national education policy circles.
Most recently, Michele served in the Deval Patrick Administration as the Director of Strategic Planning and Collaboration for state Education Secretary Paul Reville where she led the Office's collaborations with other state Executive Offices and helped launch, develop and drive the agenda of the Readiness Cabinet, the Governor's Child and Youth Development Cabinet. Michele also served as the Acting CIO for the Executive Office of Education. Before serving in the Executive Office, Michele was Policy Director in the Office of the Governor's Special Advisor for Education where she directed the Readiness Project and co-authored the Governor's Education Action Agenda, Ready for 21st Century Success (June 2008).
Prior to working for Governor Patrick, Michele was sole proprietor of her own strategic communications firm and worked for nearly a decade with the D.C. law firm Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds. She was a features writer for Converge Magazine and throughout her career has worked for leading companies and organizations including PBS, Microsoft, Smarthinking, CEO Forum on Education and Technology, National School Boards Association, Computer Systems Policy Project, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, and others.
Michele lives with her husband and children in Winchester, MA.
Michele can be reached at michele@fablevisionlearning.com
