About Rachelle

Rachelle is a Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology Teacher at Riverview Junior Senior High School in Oakmont, PA. She is also an attorney and earned her Juris Doctor Degree from Duquesne University School of Law and has a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology.

She is the President-Elect and Innovations and Resources Co-Chair for the ISTE Teacher Education Network and the Communications Chair for the ISTE Mobile Learning Network, and serves as the PAECT Historian. She was honored to be selected as one of "20 to Watch" by the NSBA and PAECT Outstanding Teacher of the Year for 2017. Additionally, she is proud to be involved and connect with other educators through ambassador programs including Buncee, Edmodo, Flipgrid, Nearpod, and Recap. She is also a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

Rachelle enjoys writing and is a regular blogger for Getting Smart and Kidblog. She wrote Chapter 3 "Blended Learning" of the EduMatch book, Snapshot in Education (2016), is a contributing author to Gamify Literacy from ISTE, and currently working on two other writing projects.