Experience

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  Northwestern Lehigh SD

  • United States
  • Music
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Instructional/Technology Coach, K-12

    • Nov 2009 - Jun 2014

    Provide leadership, vision, and direction in the endeavor to transform educational practice of 180+ professional educators. Initiatives include Project-Based Learning, Increasing Student Engagement, and The Flipped Classroom.

  • Library Media Specialist

    • Sep 1982 - Nov 2009

    Established flexibly-scheduled, fully-integrated Library Media Program for 750 students and 77 staff in a new Gr. 5-8 Middle School. Services offered included reading incentive programs, reading guidance, authentic research projects, information management and literacy instruction, authentic assessment, collaboration with teaching teams to develop meaningful projects, museum projects, the NMSA Award-Winning Project Preserve: Local History project for 8th graders featuring community involvement, the development of a "Tech Wizards" team of student technology assistants for teaching teams, and a "Library Pages" program for students to volunteer in the library.

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  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  • Adjunct Instructor to the Department of Library Science

    • 1998 - 2001

    Taught the Lib 550: Methods of Instruction course to undergraduate Library Science students for several semesters. Taught a Master's-level course in current educational pedagogy to Master of Library Science candidates.

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  Northwestern Lehigh SD

  • Fifth-grade Teacher

    • Aug 1979 - Jun 1982

    Taught Reading, English, Process Writing, and Mathematics to 5th Grade students.