August 2018 – present
Digital Learning Teacher
Waltham Public SchoolsLeadership & Administrative Projects
Provide policy recommendations to school and district leadership on current and emerging priorities like AI and data privacy.
Designed a district-wide K–8 reading assessment data management system to track progress for over 3,800 students.
Created an automated system to email out new students’ credentials to their classroom teachers when their accounts are created.
Created an automated system to generate daily morning announcement scripts with the day's lunch, students celebrating birthdays, and a daily message from our SEL curriculum.
Created an asset management system to track device assignments and paperwork for our 1:1 Chromebook program.
Created dashboard for teachers and administrators to assign and track progress of action steps following student intervention meetings.
Wrote scripts to automate transfer of student data and attachments during migration from Rediker to Aspen SIS.
Created materials, coordinated logistics, and developed and ran PD for a district-wide implementation of the Education Development Center's math and programming microworlds in elementary grades.
Co-chaired the inaugural Waltham Codes committee to unite Waltham’s diverse population of all K–12 students in Hour of Code activities.
Instruction & Professional Development
Coach educators to meaningfully and ethically integrate technology, digital literacy, and computer science content into their practice.
Provide digital literacy and computer science professional development to educators at the school, district, regional, and national levels.
Provide on-demand support to teachers and specialists to integrate digital literacy and computer science standards through coaching, co-planning, and co-teaching.
Co-develop and co-teach a bi-weekly integrated literacy block with the school librarian, embedding DLCS and MSLA standards into students' existing ELA instruction.
Partner with the math coach to design grade-level coding projects distributed throughout the year, ensuring K–5 students receive continuous exposure to coding skills through the math curriculum.