Roger Leege

Background

Roger was born in 1949.

Education

Early education in Polk County Florida public school, NMSQT Commended, Nat. Merit. Salutatorian Mulberry High School class of 1967.

Career

After jobs as EMT, mortuary assistant, warehouseman and trucker, and subsitute teacher, Roger Leege practice taught as Visual Arts teacher at Lakeland, Florida and at The New School, a non-graded school in Plainfield, Vermont. Unable to find employment in Art in Florida, he moved back to New England, taking his first full-time professional position at Tolland (CT) Middle School, where he developed an arts and crafts curriculum as the replacement for an unsuccessful traditional general shop / industrial arts course. As department leader. he built the program to include both male and female students, tripled enrollment, and added another full-time teacher, and added graphics, ceramics, craft metals, foundry metals, plastics, small gas engines, technical drawing, and life skills to the curriculum. As Audio-visual technology coordinator for the school, he handled strategic planning, budgeting, equipment purchasing and repair, and developed a student training program to support all departments, He led the first effort to purchase and introduce the first computers instruction and management in the district.

With increasing availability and interest in small computers in instruction, Leege wrote a variety of programmed learning systems for his own department and others and took a lead role in converting management systems in the district from paper systems to the first computerizations. At the end of the 1980s, Leege began working at Tolland High School where he developed an appropriate pre-collegiate curriculum in computer science and wrote, specified, purchased, or trained technology applications in management and instruction in the other departments. In 1990 he became the District of Technology Services and developed and supervised all technology use instruction, developing a state-approved curriculum for K-12 computer education, and leading planning, purchasing, maintenance, program development, data conversions, and training in management and instruction, district-wide, until his retirement in June of 2011.

During his teaching career he continued his career as a fine artist, adding a Master degree in Visual Arts and publishing and exhibiting fine art photography internationally and teaching photography and graphic arts at the secondary, collegiate, and adult levels.

Works

• Artist's website

  • Fine Photography | Roger Leege

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• Gallery

  • Home | Dek Unu Arts

    (Online gallery of selections of art and artists from the ...)

• Journal of Fine Art Photography

  • Dek Unu Magazine

    (Unique, solo-format international journal of fine art pho...)