Fran Simon

Fran Sokol Simon has been a professional early childhood education leader and technologist since 1981. After 15 years as a child care administrator where, among other responsibilities, she managed technology integration, she moved on to work on education technology, marketing, and social media in educational publishing and non-profit organizations. For more than 25 years in the early learning arena, technology has always been at the heart of her work.

Fran is a contributing author for Child Care information Exchange, and frequently presents energized training sessions on technology, marketing, and social media for clients and at national conferences.

She is the founder and producer of Early Childhood Investigations, a free webinar series for early childhood administrators, and Co-Founder of Early Childhood Technology Network. Fran has a BA and a M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education. She lives in metropolitan Washington, DC.