Sean Williams

The main focus of this position is to develop and model  innovational teaching practices in the classroom while supporting teachers and students to engage in learning while leveraging technology. Also employed to manage the IT infrastructure as well as deployments and updating classroom technology with a focus on teaching and learning.  As curriculum specialist developing and planning comprehensive learning opportunities through instructional leadership as well as  responsibility for planning, implementing, and evaluating an educational program relevant to the needs of the student population in our school district.

Employed as an innovation strategist providing technical support, training, and strategy for F2F classrooms and online spaces. Grantwriting and policy development as well as hardware support and deployment for various agencies. 

I have worked in an elementary classroom since 2001 teaching multiple subjects to a diverse group of students. Although in Placentia-Yorba Linda School District, my schools have been highly diverse with a large percentage of Hispanic, Korean, and ESL students as well as many students of higher SES. Over the course of the years I have team taught a multi-age 3/4/5, a 2/3 combination, 3rd grade, and a 3/4 combination class. With all of these classes I have infused technology into the curriculum through blogging, podcasting, wikis, video conferencing, video productions, and using ANGEL LMS to create a hybrid structure for some of my students. I then taught biology at our independent study high school, La Entrada. I enjoyed the new challenges of high school as well as the unique structure of the school. I was brought on board to create new online learning opportunities for our students in high school using this campus as a pilot.

I taught Education 407, Computers in Education, to credential candidates both undergraduates and graduate students. I teach this class both face to face and online. Some of the big ideas we explore in this class are the suite of tools included in Google Apps for Ed, social networking and bookmarking for teachers, creating a Personal Learning Network, mobile learning with cell phones and other devices, creating and maintaining a classroom blog to extend classroom learning, creating a professional website for personal use, creating web based learning projects, and researching project based learning.

I was also integral in creating a new certificate program for graduate level students, New Teaching and Learning Certification which was developed as a four course certificate program to teach prospective teachers to teach online.