Adam Watson
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Credentials
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Rank I Kentucky Professional Certificate for Teaching, Grades 8-12
Education Professional Standards Board (KY)Jun, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
National Board Certification of Teaching (Adolescent and Young Adulthood/ELA)
NBCTJun, 2013- Sep, 2024
Experience
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OVEC
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Retail Apparel and Fashion
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1 - 100 Employee
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Deeper Learning Design Specialist
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Aug 2022 - Present
Hired for the newly launched Deeper Learning Team, in order to spread, support and celebrate innovative teaching and learning. OVEC works with fourteen Kentucky school districts which consists of 150,000+ students. Hired for the newly launched Deeper Learning Team, in order to spread, support and celebrate innovative teaching and learning. OVEC works with fourteen Kentucky school districts which consists of 150,000+ students.
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Shelby County Public Schools, Shelbyville KY
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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100 - 200 Employee
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Digital Learning Coordinator
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Jul 2014 - Aug 2022
Began in 2014 as Shelby County's first District Technology Integration Coach, and helped lead and organize the rollout of Shelby's 1:1 initiative of student Chromebooks. Became Digital Learning Coordinator in 2015. Duties include serving as liaison between Shelby's Student Achievement and IT teams, creating and leading edtech professional development for staff, managing district digital platforms as well as analyzing their usage, vetting new technology, and working closely with school librarians (in advocacy and training roles). Featured guest on episodes of TheatreCast (October 2015), Partial Credit Podcast (February 2020), and Writing Matters with Dr. Troy Hicks (August 2020). Creator and/or leading facilitator of two vodcast series for the district: "Shelby Speaks: Looking Forward" (spring 2020) and "Shelby Speaks: The Concurrency of our Classroom" (winter 2021). Began an innovative professional development conference model called Share Fair, first held in 2015 and has been held annually ever since. Since the beginning, many educators from outside of Shelby have been attendees. The link in the media below is to the Share Fair website's archive and press page; most recently, it was featured in two articles in Kentucky School Advocate magazine (May 2017). Created and manage implementation of a district digital citizenship spiraling curriculum which consists of 65 unique lessons K-12 (2016 - present). This work was recently featured in the book "The Digital Citizenship Handbook for School Leaders" by Mike Ribble and Marty Park (ISTE, 2019). Featured as the first subject for a series of interviews on national edtech leaders (Peergrade, 2017). Awarded the KySTE Outstanding Leader of the Year for 2018-2019. Show less
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South Oldham High School
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United States
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1 - 100 Employee
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Teacher
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Jul 2006 - Jun 2014
Taught English, Drama, Myths and Legends, AP Literature and Composition, and History Through Film. SOHS Theater Director for 2006-2007; staged productions of "The Glass Menagerie," "The Odd Couple" and "The Wizard of Oz." A literature circle podcast project with students led to mentions in several accolades, including a lead story for The Courier-Journal (1/21/2009), a mention in NCTE's international e-newsletter INBOX (February 2009), and the cover story for "Kentucky Teacher" (April 2009). Voted Teacher of the Year 2009-2010 by the SOHS faculty and staff. In 2011, founded the district organization OCTI (Oldham County Technology Initiative), a grass-roots effort to create, coordinate and lead edtech professional development for Oldham County staff. Co-leadership of OCTI continued until 2014. Featured in a WDRB-TV television broadcast and website article in August 2013 as a leading Oldham County edtech integrationist. Winner of two Pyramid Grants (2012 and 2014). The 2014 grant led to a "Star Wars Shakespeare" academic Core Content unit in English. This included a class Skype with a New York Times best selling author as well as various accolades, including having the unit materials archived online at the publisher's website and a mention in the international magazine "Star Wars Insider" (#156, April 2014). Show less
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Bullitt Central High School
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United States
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Primary and Secondary Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Teacher
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Aug 2005 - Jun 2006
Taught English and Drama. As theater director, directed and produced "The Little Shop of Horrors," the first full musical at the school in several years. Taught English and Drama. As theater director, directed and produced "The Little Shop of Horrors," the first full musical at the school in several years.
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Education
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2005 - 2007
University of Louisville
Master of Arts in Teaching, Secondary Education, English/Language Arts Teacher Education -
1996 - 2005
University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature, General
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