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Academic Appointments:
8/19-present: Associate Professor of Education, Aquinas College-Grand Rapids, MI
Graduate Research Program Director, Supervise thesis research projects, teach education courses
Coordinator of Instructional Technology 2024-present
8/18-8/19: Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Aquinas College-Grand Rapids, MI
Supervised theses; Secondary education program
2016-2018: Adjunct Professor, Aquinas College-Grand Rapids, MI
School of Education
Inquiry and Expression Program
2016-2018: Adjunct Professor, Davenport University-Grand Rapids, MI
College of Arts & Sciences
College of Urban Education
2000-2010: PK-12 teaching, California
SELPA: 1:1 Behavioral therapist
AUHSD: ELA, Reading, Cultural Literature, AVID
Courses taught in Higher Education:
EN 513: Thesis: Research presentation
EN 512: Thesis: Education data analysis
EN 511: Thesis: Education data collection
EN 510: Research Methods, Design & Analysis
EN 455: Adolescent Literacy (independent study)
EN 453/553: Methods in Secondary Education (cross-listed)
EN 443/543: Literacy for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners (cross-listed)
EN 408/508: Curriculum for Secondary Educators (cross-listed)
EN 400: Teaching Writing
EN 202: UbD Unit and Lesson Design
EN 502: Instructional Design
EDUC 202: Engaging Diverse Learners
EDUC 200: Introduction to Education
GEN 100: First Year Seminar (4 credit)
GE 101: Inquiry and Expression
GE 100: First Year Experience
COM 100: Becoming an Effective Communicator
IRST 210: Ireland culture and identity (4 credit and short-term travel)
COMM 120: Public Speaking
UEDU 700: Urban Ed Teacher Coaching
EN202_Syllabus Infographic.pdfInfographic: EN202 Course overview
Training/Consulting Examples:
ISTE Certified Educator Facilitator (since 2021)
UCD University College Dublin, Webinar series: AI, UDL, and Andragogy (2024, Spring and Summer)
Google v. Microsoft in HE: Gamification, Accessibility, & Multimodality (2021)
MANS featured speaker: Inquiry with Google (2020)
AQ Summer Google Training: faculty, staff, & students (2020)
PCS summer Google Training (2020)
AQ Covid Pivot to virtual Google Training (3/19/20)
AQ Tech event -G Suite for Learning (2018)
Davenport TLI: Teaching & Learning Institute (2018)
Sample Conference Presentations:
The Educator Collaborative Gathering SP 24: Poetry in Community: Healing and Joy
AI Summit 23: Let's ChatIRL (In Real Life about AI)
ISTE (2021): “6 steps to engage educators in virtual worklabs”
AAQEP (2021): “Converging working adult experience with teacher preparation: A pilot study” with M. Anderson
MASAL (2020)
Home Learning Summit (2020): “Inquiry with Google Workspace” with S. Hojnacki
Tech & Trek Conference (2020): “Hyperdocs for Adult Learners”
ISTE Summer Learning Academy (2020): Discussion Moderator (virtual)
METS Virtual Rally (2020)
MACUL (2020): “Performance Assessment in Real Time”
NCTE (2019): “The Leverage of Technology for Equity Literacy”
MWERA (2019): “Stopping Traffic from the Inside Out: A teacher approach”
MIGoogle (2019): “TourBuilder for literacy”
Google Fest (2019): “MITECS/ISTE crosswalk with G Suite”
NCTE (2018): “How can reality pedagogy help set the groundwork for equity in literacy?”
AERA (2010): "Exploring Teacher Selves in the Classroom: How Teacher Identity Impacts Curriculum"
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