- Issues-based PBL
- Design Thinking
- Professional Development for Educators
- STEM Education
- Certified BT Mentor
- Co-teaching & Collaboration
- Standards-based Grading
- Community Partnerships
- Service-learning
- Academically or Intellectually Gifted Services (AIG)
- NC DPI's STEM School Designation Application Process
Education
HONORS
Innovation & Leadership
Teaching ExperiEnce
Workshops Facilitated
- EDEx Educators Cohort through EDEx
6 sessions, September 2017 - May 2018 - PBL Fellows Cohort in partnership with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences
6 sessions, 2016 - 2017; 6 sessions, 2017 - 2018; 6 sessions 2018-2019 - Designing Powerful PBL at Dillard Middle School in Goldsboro, NC
2 days, July 2016 and 1 day, 2017 - Designing Powerful PBL at Central Park School for Children in Durham, NC
1.5 days, July 2016 - Applying Design to Challenges in Education at Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, NC
2 days, November 2015 - February 2016 - Genetics and Our Food Supply in partnership with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and NC State University's Crop Research Station
1 day, July 2013, 2014, 2015, & 2016 - Innovative Mathematics Practices & Intro to PBL at Central Park School for Children in Durham, NC
1 day, July 2015 - Issues-based PBL at The Hunt Library for Exploris School in Raleigh, NC
1 day, June 2015 - Teachers + Tech Tools a PLC at the Exploris School in Raleigh, NC
4 sessions, January - April 2017 - Redesigning Learning Spaces a PLC at the Exploris School in Raleigh, NC
5 sessions, July - November 2015 - NC DPI's STEM Rubric Session Facilitator at STEM East's E2 Summit: Connecting Employers & Educators in Greenville, NC
1/2 day, April 2016 - How to Start a Girls in Science Club at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Library in Greensboro, NC Workshop qualified for the NC Environmental Certification Program, Criteria III.
1 day, April 2005 and July 2005
Conference Presentations
- Education by Design: Empowering Student Changemakers
Presented at Hopscotch Design Festival in September 2017. - Students as Changemakers: Empowering Students Through Design Thinking and Service-learning
Presented at the Scaling STEM Conference in April 2016. - STEM: Strategies that Engage Minds
Presented at the International Center for Education Model Schools Conference in July 2015. - The Exploris School: Highlights from a Model STEM School
Presented at the Scaling STEM Conference in April 2015. - STEM Projects, Partnerships, and Assessment
Presented at the Scaling STEM Conference in April 2014 and April 2015. - Career Development for STEM Teachers
Presented at the Bridging the Gap Conference in October 2014. - NC's STEM School Designation Rubric
Panel presentation at the Bridging the Gap Conference in October 2014 and Scaling STEM
in April 2014. - Design Thinking at The Exploris School
Presented at the RISD Teacher Summer Institute in June 2014. - Teacher Ambassador at the IEI Forum: Teachers and the Great Economic Debate in February 2014.
- Connecting Communities Through Service-Learning
Presented at the Scaling STEM Conference in April 2013. - The Exploris School: Virtual School Tour
Presented at the Scaling STEM Conference in April 2013. - Teacher Perspectives
Panel presentation at Many Voices, One Goal: Every North Carolina Child Graduates Ready
Conference in March 2011. - Building Student Awareness of Local and Global Food Issues
Keynote at the World Food Day Celebration held at the NC Legislative Building in October 2011. - Price Check: What is the True Cost? (Kenan Fellows Project)
Presentation at the National Science Teachers Association Area Conference in November
2009 and a poster presentation at the SMT Awards Dinner in April 2009. - A Day in the Life of a Global School
Presentation at the Worldview K-12 Symposium in October 2007. - Zoom In, Zoom Out: A New Perspective on the Metric System and Our Natural World
Presentation at Furman University's Science, Art, and Literature Education Institute in
March 2006. - The Need for Engaging Girls in Science
Keynote speaker at Furman University's Science, Art, and Literature Education Institute
in March 2006. - Differentiation Strategies
Presentation at Guilford County's Right Start: Induction for New Teachers in November 2003. - Students in Charge: Advisor/Advisee Committees
Presentation at the North Carolina Middle School Association Conference in March 2002. - Beginning Teacher: Questions and Answers
Presentation at Guilford County's Right Start: Induction for New Teachers in April 2001. - Uncovering the Hidden Persuaders: Media Bias
Presentation at the North Carolina Middle School Association Conference in March 2001.