Bio
I hold a B.A. in Spanish, a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy with an emphasis in Learning, Technology, & Culture at Michigan State University. My research interests include:
- Arts-based education, creativity, and cognition
- Design-based pedagogies and informal learning environments
- Digital rhetoric, composition, and visual thinking
- Experiential learning
- Language, literacy, and learning
- Mentoring, leadership, and change
- Pedagogy of professional development
- Social technologies as pedagogical tools
- 21st Century literacies
Formerly, I worked as a full time Instructional Facilitator, designing cross-curricular professional development and supporting faculty in a large, urban, public high school in learning to use emerging technologies as pedagogical tools. Additionally, I designed and facilitated a number of grant-funded, summer institutes at Columbia College, Iowa State University, and UCLA with the goal of assisting world language teachers in exploring the pedagogical opportunities inherent in emerging technologies. I also taught high school Spanish for 12 years at Southeast High School in Wichita, KS, and Spanish courses for 4 years as an adjunct instructor at Butler County Community College in Andover, KS. While teaching, I served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum & Instruction and as a member of the New Visions in Foreign Language Education Task Force.
While at Michigan State, I have been a research assistant with the Literacy Acquisition Research Center on the Intern Video Archive Project, worked with a research team from the Language, Technology, and Culture Program (now EPET) on a study of Michigan’s one-to-one laptop initiative, and served as a technical consultant to the Top-of-the-Mitt satellite of the Red Cedar Writing Project at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, Michigan. I have also been a writing consultant for the MSU Writing Center, co-coordinated the Bright Ideas Conference, and facilitated the action research of teachers interested in digital writing through the Red Cedar Writing Project. I am currently instructing world language methods courses and serving as the Innovation with Technology in Education Consultants (iTecs) Coordinator in MSU’s College of Education.
My professional activities include frequent presentations, various publications and contract work as an independent consultant for a variety of publishers, universities, and school districts. Over the past 2 years, I have co-facilitated a number of Mentoring, Leadership, & Change workshops and summer institutes for K-16 Arabic, Chinese, & Hebrew teachers; FLES teachers; and leaders in world language education. I continue to serve as a member of the Advisory Board for the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC), and edit the NFLRC’s electronic newsletter—The Alumni Connection. I have received several awards for excellence in teaching, including the Kansas Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award, and was honored by SCOLA in a television spot highlighting my contributions to foreign language education.
In my free time, I enjoy cooking, games, reading, photography, scrapbooking, traveling, and waterskiing.
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