The CTO Academy For K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs is a program to address the needs of education technology leaders who are new (less than four full years) to their CTO or Technology Leadership position or aspiring CTOs and EdTech leaders currently working in a technology department. Participants will have the opportunity to develop edtech leadership skills including; managing diverse teams, leading a variety of projects simultaneously, and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders. Academy participants make a positive impact on student-centered and digital learning in their school district and enhance their career trajectory.

Selected to be member of the 2023-2024 F"PF Student Privacy Train-The-Trainer Program"

Recognizing the demand for practical, informed privacy guidance, the Future of Privacy Forum, a nonprofit focused on consumer privacy, launched a 10-month Train-the-Trainer pilot program in February 2020 to multiply the people on the ground with the capacity to provide basic student privacy support. The program helps to build the capacity of local education agency (LEA) and education service agency (ESA) staff to help the schools and districts they serve, equips college of teacher education professors and staff to integrate student privacy best practices and important legal trends into their institution’s curriculum, and trains attorneys for K-12 educational agencies and institutions to advise their clients and train their peers on this changing legal landscape.

Performed a review, by reading a draft and providing feedback and edits, of the Creative Computing Curriculum Guide, developed by faculty and the ScratchEd research team at the Graduate School of Education, 2014.

Curriculum Guide available here

• Selected by MassCUE to be a Social Media Ambassador at their 2017 annual conference 

• Social Media Ambassadors shared news of the conference throughout the day using a variety of social media channels (Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram)

Learning Design Coach

• Provide coached, collaborative, and connected professional learning at GOA by:

  • Leading professional learning initiatives between and among schools as a GOA vision ambassador.

  • Serving as advocate and expert in modern learning design based on GOA’s Student Competencies and Catalyst Card strategies.

  • Designing and facilitating GOA professional learning workshops, courses, and events.

  • Increasing their coaching and leadership skills, thus growing a network of GOA coaches and school leaders.

  • Participated as a panelist in GOA's April 2020 webinar "Ask Me Anything: Online Learning with Elementary Students." 

Professional Development Instructor

• I provided professional development to educators on blended learning, designing student experiences in online spaces, and taking best practices from online learning and applying them to the brick and mortar classroom to improve the student learning experience; I taught the following courses online:

  • Online Learning Environments 1- Introduction to Blended Learning

  • Online Learning Environments 2- Creating & Curating Content

  • Online Learning Environments 3- Designing an Effective Blended Learning Environment; 

• I facilitated an online learning community for a cohort of teachers as well as made on-site visits to provide small group workshops and one-on-one mentoring. 

• One of four facilitators for GOA's inaugural "Blending Learning Institute" summer 2016 professional development conference. 

• Community Teaching Assistant for the MIT EdX SPOC (Small Private Online Course) “Launching Innovation in Schools: XQ Edition" in 2017, a Special XQ Edition of MIT EdX MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Launching Innovation in Schools" developed by Justin Reich at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and Peter Senge at the MIT Sloan School of Management

• Beta-tester of EdX MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Launching Innovation in Education"

• Performed a review of the "Launching Innovation in Education" Facilitator's Guide

• Experience as learning circle facilitator highlighted in MIT EdX Facilitator’s Guides for following courses: 

  • Launching Innovation in Schools

  • Competency-Based Education- The Why, What, and How 

  • Envisioning the Graduate of the Future 

  • Design Thinking for Leading and Learning

• Volunteered to playtest new interactive tools for teachers and provide feedback

Collaborative Research Experience for Women Grant: Obtained thesis grant for research in Undergraduate Computer Science & Engineering on common misconceptions in Introductory Java programming & construction of a program to assist students in avoiding coding errors, 2001-2002

(CRA-W)

Paper "Identifying and Correcting Java Programming Errors for Introductory Computer Science Students" published in Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM SIGCSE · Jan 1, 2003 

Presented at ACM's SIGCSE '03: Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education February 2003 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship: Designed & coded Bogus Online Voting Machine to demonstrate that online voting machines should not be trusted for leading expert on electronic voting systems Rebecca Mercuri, 2000-2001