Let's Collaborate!

I look forward to being your learning and collaborative partner!   

Here are some suggestions on how I could help you: 

• Co-plan a learning experience for your classroom by using artificial intelligence tools

• Thought partnering on how best to integrate educational tabletop role-playing games into your school

• Co-teach a lesson that incorporates edtech

• Design a "learning camp" blended learning series for your school faculty

• Discuss strategies on how best to vet online platforms for potential purchasing

• Develop an onboarding program for a new hardware purchase (for example, touchscreen flat panels) in your district

• And more!  In my more than two decades in public education (from Nationally Board Certified teacher, to district Digital Learning Coordinator, to regional Digital Learning Consultant and university instructor), I've had practical, pragmatic experience with how edtech intersects with PBLs, Portraits of a Learner, blended learning, digital citizenship, game-based learning, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and other pedagogies.   

I've been a University of Louisville part-time lecturer since 2025, currently teaching four graduate-level, virtual, asynchronous classes for the College of Education and Human Development throughout the year.   Teaching, no matter what edtech tools are used or how transformational the approach, needs to be grounded in best practice.  Treat these syllabi excerpts from a few of my UL classes as a window into my topics of expertise.   Let's work together to make  instruction more vibrant!  

EDAP 585 – Digital Methods for Teachers to Design and Deliver Instruction

Standards and Rigor

• What is the difference between standards-referenced and standards-aligned?

• How can we unpack a standard with the help of edtech?

• How does “vibrant learning” ensure we design for academic rigor?

Assessments For, As, Of Learning

• How do we define assessment (for, as, and of learning)?

• What makes a rubric not a checklist of points but a true indicator of how a student performed and how they could improve?

• What’s the difference between standards-based grading and traditional grading of points and percentages?

• What edtech tools can help in assessment and/or analysis?

The Power of Feedback

• Why is “timely, differentiated feedback” important?

• What are strategies we can use to ensure better peer-to-peer feedback? 

• How can we enrich teacher-to-student and peer-to-peer feedback using edtech?

EDAP 587 – Digital Methods for Students to Demonstrate Learning

Learner-Centered Agentic Classrooms

• What is the continuum from teacher-centered to student-centered to a learner-centered environment? How can we begin to make that shift?

• How do we define “engagement,” and how might true engagement be a way to ensure that students are agentic?

• How does edtech help with increasing student agency and establishing a learner-centered classroom?

Cultivating Curiosity and Inquiry

• How do we define inquiry-based learning?

• How do we get students to not only ask questions, but ask deeper questions?

• How does edtech help with cultivating curiosity and establishing inquiry-based learning?

Learning That Matters to Students

• How is a performance assessment different from a traditional assessment?

• In what ways can exhibitions, student-led conferences, defenses/celebrations of learning (and more!) amplify your students' vibrant learning experience?

• How does edtech help with the process and products of performance assessment?

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