Parent Teacher Magazine Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools September 2017 | Page 5

Bio for Dr. Clayton Wilcox
Dr. Clayton M. Wilcox came to the district from Washington County, Maryland,
where he had been superintendent for nearly six years.
A native of Iowa, Dr. Wilcox began his career as a teacher in the Tri-Valley
Community School District in Illinois in 1979. A year later, he moved to Waterloo
Community Schools in Iowa, where he taught in elementary and middle schools
before working in human resources, as an assistant principal
in a middle school and as an elementary principal.
In 1994, he joined St. Johns County School District in Florida as director for
personnel services, subsequently becoming executive director for human resources
and staff development. Since then, he has served as superintendent for school
districts in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Pinellas County in Florida and Maryland.
He has also worked as a vice president and senior vice president for education and
corporate relations at Scholastic, Inc.
Dr. Wilcox received his undergraduate degree and his master’s degree in education
at the University of Northern Iowa. He received his doctorate in educational
leadership from NOVA Southeastern University in Florida. He has also studied
strategic planning and instructional design at the University of Michigan Graduate
School of Business and information management and telecommunications,
instructional assessment and employee performance management at Viterbo
College in Wisconsin.
In addition to his K-12 work in education, Dr. Wilcox has taught at Flagler College
in St. Augustine, Florida, and Jacksonville University in Florida. He has also served
on the Pre-K-20 Council at Frostburg State University in Maryland and on the board
of advisors for the university system of Maryland in Hagerstown.
He has served in multiple state and national education associations, including
the Council of Great City Schools, the Association of Latino Administrators
and Superintendents, the American Association of School Administrators,
the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development and Education
Research Development Institute. He was a governor’s appointee to the Maryland
Longitudinal Data Board and the legislative task force to study 21 st -century school
construction.
Dr. Wilcox is married with two grown children. He and his wife Julie live in
Charlotte.
Sprint technology initiative to help CMS
students bridge homework gap
More than
5,000 high
school students
in Charlotte-
Mecklenburg
Schools will
receive free Wi-Fi
hotspot devices
and high-speed
wireless internet
service in the fall
to help close the
homework gap.
Ninth-graders
who do not
have connectivity at home will receive the Wi-Fi hotspots
with 3GB per month of high speed internet and unlimited
2G speed at no charge. Research has shown that about
5 million U.S. families with school-aged children do not
have broadband access at home but at least 70 percent of
teachers assign homework that requires access.
The technology donations are part of a national project by
Sprint and the Sprint Foundation. The 1Million Project will
give wireless devices and service to more than 1 million
students over the next five years.
“This technology will extend the learning process beyond
the classroom and increase student engagement,” said Dr.
Clayton Wilcox, CMS superintendent. “CMS is excited to see
what our students create and learn with access to this state-
of-the-art technology over their four years in high school.”
CMS is one of more than 119 districts in 32 states that
will participate in the nationwide technology rollout. More
than 12,000 devices will be distributed in North Carolina
school districts, including Guilford, Forsyth, Cumberland,
Buncombe, Nash, Rockingham and Pitt counties.
West Charlotte High was chosen as a pilot school for the
1Million Project and distributed 250 Sprint mobile hotspot
devices in January.
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