About me
I am excited to assist organizations as they develop student-centered instructional strategies that are designed to support the learning styles of today's learner. I believe in innovation, disruption, and strategic thinking to promote continuous improvement and am dedicated to developing dynamic instructional strategies as a means of creating and nurturing a lifelong love of knowledge in students. I have worked to bring educators from multiple districts together to implement The Seven Principles of Good Practice for Online Instruction, an innovative instructional rubric based on Penn State University's Peer Review Rubric for Online Courses. This rubric has helped us to develop a common instructional language for educators across Westmoreland County, and is designed to build a bridge between their actions in the classroom and their actions in a virtual learning environment.
To compliment this focus on innovative instruction, I am the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units (PAIU) state lead for the PAIU Hub on OER Commons. Through this work, I frequently deliver local, statewide, national, and global presentations to educators highlighting the grassroots movement in Pennsylvania to adopt and implement Open Educational Resources as a fiscal reallocation driver that empowers teachers to provide culturally relevant, rigorous instruction to students, and promotes increased student achievement through the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and their #GoOpen Network.