PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Below are some of the Professional Development opportunities that I have taken advantage of over the past two decades:
TECHNOLOGY
●Association of Technology Leaders of Independent Schools (ATLIS)
ATLiS' Productivity Tools for 2025: Project Management with Asana and Slack, Jan 2025
Rethinking Assessment: Shifting from Grades to Learner Competencies, November 2024
Budgeting with ATLIS, November 2024
Managing Help Desk, November 2024
Developing Internal Leadership Capacity, Restructuring Teams, and Creating New Departmental Roles, October 2024
Future-Proofing Your School's IT Infrastructure, November 2024
Cybersecurity for ATLIS, October 2024
Cybersecurity 101 Workshop , October 2024
Cybersecurity for Independent Schools: Trends and Tactics, October 2024
Technology Leaders in Independent Schools (TLIS) Certification Prep Program, October 2024
●Massachusetts Educational Technology Administrators Association (METAA)
"Dive into Secure Workspace Management with SCuBA" Session 1: Introduction to SCuBA & Google Security Features, October 2024
"Dive into Secure Workspace Management with SCuBA" Session 2: Understanding & Responding to Your SCuBA Report, November 2024
"K-12 Cybersecurity workshop: Fortify Your School Against Ransomware," ransomware training and incident response planning with Joe Flores from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Brian Gavioli from the Massachusetts State Police Fusion Center, July and August 2024
Cybersecurity Pre-Conference and 15th Annual METAA CTO Clinic, March 2024
AI and Student Data Privacy Discussion with Steve Smith February 2024
CTO Clinic (Cybersecurity Pre-Conference and Conference), March 2023
●Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
[upcoming] CoSN's 2025 Driving K-12 Innovation Summit: Navigating Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers for Tomorrow's Learners, Feb 2025
CoSN's Year-long Early Career K-12 CTO Academy, 2024-2025
CoSN's Cybersecurity in K-12 Schools, April - June 2023
CoSN's Cybersecurity Workshop 301, April - May 2023
CoSN's CETL Foundations, February - May 2023
Google Advanced Premium IT Admin Features, Dec 2024
Introduction to Google Workspace Admin, Dec 2024
Intermediate Use of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, Dec 2024
Basic Use of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, Dec 2024
Google's Be Internet Awesome June 2017
Google Summit for Educators 2012
Google’s CS4HS Creative Computing at MIT 2010
K-12 Cybersecurity Lessons from 2024, Strategies for 2025 with Doug Levin, Director of the K12 Security Information Exchange (K12 SIX), Dec 2024
"Safeguarding Students' Digital Identities in Today’s Tech-Driven Education," October 2024
"Protect Your Schools with the K12 Six Essential Cybersecurity Protections," October 2024
"Strategies to Protect Student Data," October 2024
●Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE)
MassCUE Annual Fall Conference, October 2024
MassCUE Fall Conference 2022
MassCUE Fall Conference 2019
MassCUE 2018
MassCUE 2017
MassCUE 2011
●Aqueduct Cybersecurity Summit, October 2024
●Cybersecurity Rubric 2.0 Academy, October 2024
Learn How to Use the Cybersecurity Rubric 2.0 (CR)
Become a Certified Cybersecurity Rubric Evaluator (CCRE)
AIM Anthology: 4 courses on Identity Access and Management (PD IAM)
● Makey Makey Certified Educator Workshop, August 2024
● Scratch Foundation Scratch Conference, June 2024
● Padlet Sessions: Creative Icebreakers with AI and Padlet with Carl Hooker, May 2024
● Tech & Learning Regional Leadership Summit- Northeast "Reset and Reimagine: Planning for Tomorrow's Education," May 2024
● Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) KnowBe4 Cybersecurity Training, March 2024
● National Business Officers Association (NBOA) Annual Meeting, February 2024
● Future of Privacy Forum (FPF): Trainer the Trainer Cohort 2023-2024
● U.S. Department of Education's Student Privacy Policy Office (SPPO) and their Privacy Technical Assistance Center (PTAC): National Student Privacy & Data Security Winter Webinar Series January 2024
● Massachusetts Elementary and Middle School Educational Technology Specialists (MEMSET) member, 2012 - present
● US Department of Education's "Student Privacy and Data Security" Webinar Series January 2023
● A Master Class on Cybersecurity: Roger Grimes Teaches Data-Driven Defense
● Learn with the Expert: Learning Technologies Today - A Leadership Perspective with Ruben Puentedura
● Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) Training Program, 2023
● EdTechTeacher
Summer 2020
Summit 2017
EdTechTeacher Innovation Summit 2016
EdTechTeacher’s iPad Summit USA 2012 & 2013
EdTechTeacher's Leadership Conference Mar 2012
EdTechTeacher’s Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons 2010
● Tufts DevTech (now BC DevTech) Scratch, Jr. coding & Kibo robotics Summer 2019
● MIT
scratch conference July 2018
Teaching Systems Lab PlayTest Sept 2017
MIT Media Lab Creative Learning Workshop- micro:bit Sept 2017
● EdCamp Cambridge Aug 2017
● Coursera's Tinkering Fundamentals: A Constructionist Approach to STEM Learning 2017
● CommonSense Media- Shaping Our Digital World 2012
● Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE)
AISNE Exploring Digital Ethics & New Media Literacies 2012
AISNE Bullying & Cyberbullying Prevention 2011 & 2012
● PIN Schools Symposium- Forays & Footprints of the Digital Generation 2011
● November Learning’s Building Learning Communities Conference 2009 and 2011
LEADERSHIP
● Women of the World's Lead with Heart: Lead with Emotional Intelligence, Jan 2025
● Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
BB&N's Year-Long Leadership Institute 2024-2025 (focus on facilitation)
BB&N's Two-Year Leadership Academy with Hamish Blackman of Breakthrough Collaboration 2012 – 2014
● Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education's "Certificate in School Management and Leadership" (CSML) program courses:
Leading People
Leading Learning
● Harvard Graduate School of Education's "Certificate in Advanced Education Leadership" (CAEL) program courses:
Developing Myself
Leading for Excellence and Equity
Driving Change
● Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
MS DESE STEM Leaders Conference 2022
MS DESE STEM Leaders 2021-2022
● Harvard Graduate School of Education's Women in Leadership Oct 2018
● MIT EdX Launching Innovation in Schools 2016-2017
● Park School iLEAP Leadership Cohort 2016-2017
● EdTechTeacher Leadership Conference Mar 2012
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
● Ready for Rigor Master Class for School Leaders "Managing Instructional Change: Help Teachers Close the Knowing-Doing Gap in the Fall" with Zaretta Hammond, June 2024
● Diversity Recruitment Training with Warren Reid, Founder and CEO of NEMNET, April - May 2024
● Association of Independent Schools of New England (AISNE)
"AISNE Workshop: Our Personal Biases and the Impact on Inclusive Communities," with Dr. Liza Talusan, April 2024
AISNE's "Go Beyond an Awareness of Racism: Contribute to the Formation of a Truly Just and Equitable Society" with Ibram X. Kendi (March 2021)
AISNE Diversity Conference 2015
● Town of Wellesley Racial Equity Group DEI training, 2024
● METCO Directors' Association Educators' Conference 2023
● Brandon Fleming "The Transformative Power of Equity" (November 2023)
Courageous Conversation Academy's "The Unfolding of American History: A Courageous Conversation Protocol Practicum" (April 2023)
Courageous Conversation Academy: Antiracism in the Workplace (July and August 2023)
Courageous Conversation's Juneteenth Virtual Forum "Better Late Than Never: In Celebration of a Dream Denied" (June 2023)
Courageous Conversation Academy's "The Unfolding of American History: A Courageous Conversation Protocol Practicum" (April 2023)
Introduction to Courageous Conversations (2022)
Courageous Conversations Exploration (2022)
From DEI to EDI: Personalizing the Journey to Lead and Change Culture in Organizations (Part I) (2022)
From DEI to EDI: Primary, Presence, and Positioning of Race (Part II) (2022)
●White People Challenging Racism: Moving from Talk to Action, https://www.wpcr-boston.org (July-August 2023)
●Vanderbuilt University Initiative for Race Research and Justice's Jumpstart 2023 Virtual Conference "Here to Stay: Reigniting the Fire for Racial Justice" (July 2023)
● Anti-Racist Community Network (ARCN)
ARCN Author Talk- Earl Smith & Angela Hattery "Solitary Confinement, Race, and Racism" (July 2023)
ARCN (Anti-Racist Community Network) Author Talk- Shelly Tochluk "Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Lifestyle" (June 2023)
●Center for the Study of White American Culture (CSWAC) "Decentering Whiteness and Building Multicultural Communities" https://cswac.org (June-July 2023)
●Perennial Education's Culturally Responsive Practices Leadership Academy (2022-2023)
●Showing Up For Racial Justince (SURJ)
AWARE-LA (Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere, a SURJ Affiliate) Sunday Dialogues for White Anti-Racists (starting May 2023)
AWARE-LA and Shelly Tochluk’s Unmasking Whiteness Summer Institute and Witnessing Whiteness Book Group
SURJ Boston's "Confronting White Supremacy Symposium" (May 2023)
●Bright Morning's "3 Steps to Make Every Conversation an Equity Conversation" (March 2023) related podcast available here
●Anti-Racism Daily's "Reignite DEI" Workshop (March 2023)
● Dana Hall School CEI (Community, Equity, and Inclusion) Parent and Alum Education Series "Striving to be Anti-Racist" (2020-2021)
● School Reform Initiative (SRI, now CLEE)
SRI's Leadership Academy Inaugural Cohort 2019-2020
SRI's Leadership Academy Cohort 2020-2021
SRI Fall Conference 2019
Practices & Principles of School Reform Initiative's Equity Focused Intentional Learning Communities June 2018
● Visions PACE training 2019-2020
● SEED group
2007-2008
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
EDUCATION
● BB&N Teaching & Learning Conference: Depolarizing Our Classrooms and School Communities: A Gathering of Boston-Area Schools with Essential Partners, March 2024
● MTSS, Essential Standards, and Instructional Cycles with Geri Parscale 2022-2023
● MTSS and Evidence-Based Grading with Mike Mattos, Tony Reibel, and Matt Thede 2022-2023
● AISNE Teaching & Learning Feb 2019
● Buck Institute Project Based Learning July 2017
● Harvard Graduate School of Education Project Zero Classroom 2015
● Harvard Graduate School of Education Project Zero's Future of Learning 2014 and 2015
● Global Online Academy 2015
● Research for Better Teaching 2015
● NAIS Annual Conference 2015
● Responsive Classroom Level 1 training 2008
COACHING/FACILITATION
● Elena Aguilar and Bright Morning
Becky Barstein, Elena Aguilar, and Bright Morning's "Coaching Strong Emotions," October 2024
Elena Aguilar and Bright Morning's "There's Been a [Norms] Breach: Three Things to Keep in Mind," September 2024
Bright Morning, Elena Aguilar, and Maia Heyck-Merlin, "The Together Coach: All You Need is Fifteen Minutes," July 2024
Elena Aguilar and Jennifer Abrams, "The Art of Asking a Question," June 2024
Elena Aguilar, "What Just Happened? End-of-Year Reflection Process for Leaders," June 2024
Elena Aguilar, "Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster of Coaching," June 2024
The PD Book: "Attend to the Details" Mini-Workshop with Lori Cohen, May 2022
The PD Book: "Facilitate Adaptively" Mini-Workshop with Lori Cohen, May 2022
The PD Book: "Know Yourself as a Facilitator" Mini-Workshop with Elena Aguilar, May 2022
Year-long online book group for "Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators," June 2021 - May 2022
Coaching Foundations, Bright Morning, Summer 2020
● Essential Partners
Essential Partners' "Turning to Community in Uncertain Times," March 2025
Essential Partners' "Secondary School Summit," September 2024
Essential Partners' "Secondary School Summit," July 2024
"Transforming School Culture Through Reflective Structured Dialogues" a workshop by Essential Partners, June 2024
● Dr. Liza Talusan
"Identity-Conscious Facilitation: Train-the-Trainer Workshop" a Master Class with Dr. Liza Talusan, April 2024
● Global Online Academy (GOA)
Global Online Academy's Coaching Innovation, 2017
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
● Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Management in Education, Jan 2025
● ATLiS' Productivity Tools for 2025: Project Management with Asana and Slack, Jan 2025