Professional Accomplishments
Teacher-Driven Professional Learning Projects
Lead of 2015-2016 Kentucky Student Growth Project, 48 ELA and Special Ed teachers conducting their own classroom action research and creating resource pages/videos to share with the world.
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Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions: Coach providing training and ongoing support for teachers as they research, design, implement, analyze, reflect on and publish their approaches to issues in their own classrooms, schools, and districts.
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In the News
Professional Activities
Presenter for Kentucky Literacy Intervention Project
"High Leverage Practices for Exceptional Children" Kentucky Department of Education, Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grant January 2019 |
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Click to listen to NPR's January 19, 2013 "All Things Considered" interview. The topic is the adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards and features David Coleman, president of College Board, Mark Bauerlein, English professor at Emory University, Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, and me.
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Video produced by the Kentucky Society for Technology in Education. The grant I wrote was to engage students in creating nonfiction multimedia. DCHS was awarded $11,858.00 for a class set of iPads, apps, and teacher professional development. Students at all grade levels have utilized the iPads to better understand rhetorical strategies used by professional writers and producers by writing and producing their own products.
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At the National Core Advocate convening in Denver with Jennifer Fowler, May 2015. Attended SAP training in North Carolina in November 2014 and facilitated Kentucky's statewide convening in December 2015.
DCPS educators at ECET2KY conference in Louisville, KY, Jan 30-31, 2015 with keynote speaker Jack Andraka, high school senior, scientist, inventor, and discoverer of a new method to detect early stage pancreatic cancer.
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"Twenty-One Kentucky Teachers Named to Innovative Teacher Leader Cohort" Oct. 14, 2014. Read more HERE.
Innovative Teacher Leader Webpage Facilitated Teacher Allies Meeting at The Gates Foundation in Seattle in March, 2015 with fellow KY teacher Brad Clark and two TN teachers. With Julie Fabrocini from the Gates Foundation.
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Working with fifteen Kentucky teachers and teacher leaders from across the state for the Center for Teaching Quality, I helped craft practical recommendations for ways to optimize teacher time. We created an infographic that gained national attention. Ali Wright (teacher for Fayette County Public Schools and Teacherpreneur) and I were guest Twitter chat hosts for Connected Cafe. We were also guests on the Talks with Teachers podcast.
Teach to Lead held its very first Teacher Leadership Summit in Louisville, KY, Dec. 6-7th, 2014. Nearly 150 participants from across the region gathered to collaborate and advance teacher leadership ideas in their schools, districts and states. Article in Kentucky Teacher.
I am currently a middle and high school English Teacher Trainer and Consultant for the National Math and Science Initiative and AP English Content Coordinator and Consultant for Advance Kentucky.
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Working with the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University and Kid Friendly, a grant funded through Race to the Top, I am conducting training institutes for Kentucky teachers in an effort to support student growth.
I have served as President, High School Vice President, Conference Chair, and currently serve as Treasurer and Special Projects Chair for the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts. |
I am a Western Kentucky University Kentucky Writing Project fellow and have presented at several Writing Project events. I also worked with Terry Elliott to present a three-day KWP Summer Technology Academy.
I served as an AP English Language and Composition Scorer for College Board for 3 years and scored SAT essays for Pearson Education for 2 years.
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I am an adjunct instructor for Western Kentucky University,
Brescia University, and Georgetown College.
My courses include:
LME 512: Issues in Library Media Education
LME 518: Advanced Children’s Literature
LME 535: Survey of Educational Technology Practices
LME 407: Young Adult Literature
LME 318: Children’s Literature
LEAD 200: Introduction to Leadership Studies
LEAD 325: Leading Change
EDU 360: Teaching Literacy across Content
EDU 321:Teaching Reading in Elementary Schools
EDU 322: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
EDU 327: Teaching Reading in Secondary Schools
EDU 314/EDU 315: Young Adult and Children’s Literature
EDU 560: Methods of Teaching Technology Concepts with Practicum
EDU 662: Assessing and Facilitating Literacy Development
Brescia University, and Georgetown College.
My courses include:
LME 512: Issues in Library Media Education
LME 518: Advanced Children’s Literature
LME 535: Survey of Educational Technology Practices
LME 407: Young Adult Literature
LME 318: Children’s Literature
LEAD 200: Introduction to Leadership Studies
LEAD 325: Leading Change
EDU 360: Teaching Literacy across Content
EDU 321:Teaching Reading in Elementary Schools
EDU 322: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
EDU 327: Teaching Reading in Secondary Schools
EDU 314/EDU 315: Young Adult and Children’s Literature
EDU 560: Methods of Teaching Technology Concepts with Practicum
EDU 662: Assessing and Facilitating Literacy Development