Highlights

CIO LOOK Magazine's 30 Most Influential Business Leaders in Technology 2021 - Nathan Short and Glen Warren: Combining Education and Technology to Deliver Exemplary Educational Experience

Classroom of the Future Innovative Educator Award 2020 This award recognizes an individual eduction innovator that increases student empowerment.

CUE Gold Disk Award 2019 - CUE’s oldest recognition program since 1983, a Gold Disk celebrates a CUE member’s contributions to technology in learning.

California Reading Association (CRA) State Literacy Leader Award 2018 - This was the first award of its kind from CRA. It was awarded in recognition of the Media and Information Literacy state and national leadership connecting students and school libraries.

California Media and Information Literacy Summits - Founder and State Leader Working with multiple state agencies including county offices of education and the California Department of Education to provide educational leadership for districts and schools throughout California.

Future Ready Librarians - Co Creator Working with a team of Library Media Educators from around the country we developed the Future Ready Librarians Model (Future Ready).

California Teacher of the Year 2014 (Semi-Finalist) One of seven Semi-Finalist chosen state wide. Press Release

Orange County Teacher of the Year 2014: One of four K12 educators chosen to represent Orange County as the state candidate for teacher of the year. (Newspaper Link)

Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) Award 2013 National Award for leadership in advancing online safety for families.

Orange County CTE Grant Steering Committee - Contributed to the final version of the winning grant by adding Information Literacy.

California Educational Technology Task Force: A volunteer group appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to advise ways to improve and expand the use of education technology in California schools.

Orange Unified Teacher of the Year 2013-2014: "Individual schools nominated one teacher for the award earlier this year. A committee of administrators and previous years' winning teachers selected the top three from a pool of 41 finalists." Orange County Register News Article

Generation Safe: Co-Author of a response matrix for district leaders and site administrators to help prepare teachers for how to respond to digital issues. (GenSafe)

Remote ISTE Director - Remote ISTE provides access to real-time learning and interactions with conference participants and presenters from the comfort of your home or office. Participants are able to access session archives for six months post conference.

Educational Liaison to the California Office of Privacy Protection and California K12 Education

Technology Committee of the California Brokers of Expertise, the official public education teacher collaboration site.

Advisory Panel Member of the California Digital Literacy Pathways for the office of the Governor and of the iKeepSafe, Generation Safe project.

Panel Member for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing tasked with addressing teacher librarian competencies in the area of information literacy.

California Privacy Safety Summit - Panelist for Senator Ellen Corbett.