Saturday March 26th , 2022 | 9:00 - 1:00 *ET
Featuring the best presenters, the best breakout sessions, and the best networking in Central New Jersey. #METECH2022 is a celebration of what makes New Jersey students the best in the country and celebrates the educators who are sharing their passions in today's digital classrooms.
Join us virtually for this year's conference! We look forward to seeing you.
Keynote Speakers
FLORENCIA HENSHAW, PHD
Director of Advanced Spanish
Interim Director of the Foreign Language Teacher Education Program
Title: "An educator's self-caring approach to technology integration"
The switch to remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the pressure on educators to master a myriad of tech tools in record time. We were flooded by webinars and workshops, almost to the point of losing ourselves and our pedagogy in a sea of must-have tools and must-follow practices. Thus, the goal of this talk is to offer a space for reflection and aspiration towards a healthier, less exhausting relationship with technology. Spoiler alert: your instructional effectiveness is not measured by the number of tools you use.
Dr. Florencia Henshaw is the Director of Advanced Spanish at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an award-winning educator who has published and presented nationally and internationally on technology integration and research-based pedagogical practices.
RICHARD COHEN
Assistant Superintendent / Principal, Moss School
Rick Cohen is an assistant superintendent of Metuchen School District, principal of Moss School, author, co-founder of SELF-Q LLC, and serves as co-adjunct faculty for Rutgers University. He is former principal of Red Bank Primary School in Red Bank, New Jersey, a Title I school with a majority English learner–student population, where he led collaborative school improvement efforts resulting in dramatic increases in student proficiencies. Prior to Red Bank, Rick was the founding director of a new bilingual school, Colegio Americano, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Rick began his teaching career as a Teach for America corps member in 1996 in Phoenix, Arizona. Rick’s first formal teaching assignment was in juvenile detention centers in Washtenaw County, Michigan as a University of Michigan Project Community service-learning student facilitator.
