Hello and welcome to my site! I truly love what I do- I believe and live the truth that Education is one of the highest callings one can pursue. I have spent my career with one local public school system- enjoying my time in the classroom and now working for and supporting teachers throughout the district. It is a privilege to get to be the voice of the classroom in IT- although that can be a balancing act between what we have, what we need, the infrastructure to support it, and implementing initiatives with teachers and students. If all of that was not enough, I have the honor of being a mom to four talented and wonderfully fun children.
A little more about my professional life…
In the Classroom
| Middle and High school teacher– 13 years | |
| PCPS Clinical Ed Supervisor to mentor student teachers and new teachers | |
| Technology coach– Designed & facilitated staff technology development workshops on Creating a class website, Student engagement with technology, Data driven decisions with tech-assisted formative assessments | |
| Co-created a faculty blog, Technaughtlogy, as a way to introduce new technologies to classroom teachers (our mascot was the Dreadnaught, hence the “naught” in the name) |
Professional Learning & District Support
| School district info – 7th largest in FL; in top 30 largest US school districts – Schools: 150 (traditional and specialized); over 100,000 students – Almost all schools receive school-wide Federal free lunch program | |
| Instructional Technology Department Senior manager, 1 year Teacher Resource Specialist Trainer, 6 years | |
| Project lead: 1:1 devices – Surface RT implementation: 14 high schools – iPad Model Instructional Classroom (2015-2018): 60 classrooms – SciPad & STEM Classroom implementation (2017-2019): 82 classrooms – Selected 1:1 School-wide initiatives (2019-present) – Task force for 1:1 District initiative (2021) | |
| Professional learning developed & facilitated (See our site: tinyurl.com/LearnIntec) – iPads: Bootcamp, Creative Learning Tasks, Learning with iPads (year-long series) – Minecraft Education Edition: Level 1- Learn to Play; Level 2- Playing to Learn – SAMR in the classroom – SMART Learning Suite and Student Engagement (multiple topics) – Strategy based workshops: Creative Classroom; Formative Assessments; Google Apps Microsoft (Teams, OneNote, OneDrive) | |
| Created a new professional learning experience, Cafe Engage, for teachers, admins, and network managers to learn innovative ways to implement technology across curriculum areas and grade levels | |
| District support: Planning with administrators and district leaders for school-wide and district implementations |
Conference presentations
| Learning Forward (Dallas, TX, 2019): Technology and the Creative Classroom | |
| KDP International Convo (Pittsburg, PA, 2017): Tim Time (Technology Integration Matrix) | |
| Florida Association of Staff Development (FASD, Daytona, FL 2016): Unconventional Professional Development: Cafe Engage |
Career bits
| Educator, 20 years | |
| Florida certified teacher, Biology 6-12, Middle Grades Science 5-9, Middle Grades Math 5-9 | |
| National Board Certified Teacher, Early Adolescent Science (2005-2015) | |
| MS, Educational Media Design and Technology (2010) | |
| EdD, Curriculum and Instruction (2017) | |
| Doctoral Dissertation (April 2017): Perceptions and Practice: The relationship between teacher perceptions of technology use and level of classroom technology integration |
Engage & Innovate 