Welcome to the IS Team site! Our goal in IS is to support, empower, collaborate, and innovate with-in our school community! We work to guide Nashoba Brooks School in the areas of technology, library, research, software and so much more. We invite you to explore this site to get to know us, view and use our resources, and learn about the IS Team at Nashoba Brooks School!
Get to know the team!
Laurie Taylor, Library Director and Transliteracy Integration Specialist
I am delighted to be in my third year at Nashoba Brooks School where I work with the amazing IS team: Hank, Isabel, and Isabella! I have been a school librarian for 14 years and a library director for 4 years. My passion is connecting students to books and sharing the joy of reading. I enjoy teaching students to be curious and to make connections with the world around them. My goal as a teacher and a librarian is to ensure that all students feel included, respected, and valued. I love collaborating, sharing ideas, and teaching all students to be critical thinkers and use information responsibly. Please reach out if you need help finding books or would like to work together on projects!
Isabel Exstein, Instructional Technologist
I am excited to come back to Nashoba Brooks School as an Instructional Technologist for my fourth year! To me, the most fulfilling aspect about teaching is the ability to empower students. During the school day, you'll often find me teaching robotics, engineering, digital software, and coding to students in PS-2, as well as collaborating on a few integration projects with Middle School students. When I'm not directly teaching the kids, I'm helping co-develop curriculum with other teachers or troubleshooting technical hiccups. That being said, you're always welcome to reach out if you are experiencing any tech issues, have a idea for bringing tech to your classroom, or just want to chat!
Isabella Amparan, Librarian and Media Integration Specialist
One of my favorite things about my job is getting to work with students as they grow. I have the incredible privilege of teaching a dedicated library class to students from preschool all the way into second grade, and now in my fifth year I get to watch as my students transform hesitant early learners to confident, curious, and excited students. I’m also the voice behind preschool library icons: Foxy the fox puppet and Orla the owl puppet. Telling stories, creating lessons, working with teachers to explore new ed-tech are a few of my roles here at Nashoba Brooks. As a librarian and a media integration specialist, I work with both Hank and Laurie on the library and technology side of things, and I’m always excited to start new projects!