About Me

Over the past 15 years or so, I've worn many hats.

On this page, I'll show you how most of them fit.

2023–Present
Pedagogy & Partnerships Manager at The Juice Learning.

In 2023, I joined The Juice as an advisor.

In 2024, I was promoted to my current role.

In both capacities, I address Pedagogy and Partnerships.

Pedagogy

As a platform, use cases for The Juice are nearly endless.

That's why you can find me presenting The Juice to just about everyone, just about everywhere.

Whether I'm at a national conference, a regional lunch-and-learn, or a Zoom call with a few teachers, on most days I'm making the educational case for The Juice.

Selected Presentations and Workshops:

AASL23 (American Association of School Librarians)
- 2023 | Tampa, FL
- The Essential Role of Library/Media Specialists as Information Literacy Experts
AMLE23 (Association for Middle Level Educators)
- 2023 | Washington, D.C.
- Prioritizing Literacy Across Content Areas & Curricula
Capital Intermediate Unit 15 - Pennsylvania Creativity Conference
- 2024 | Harrisburg, PA
- Learning to Read; Reading to Learn: Developing Critical Readers in Grades 5–12
Allegheny Intermediate Unit 3 - Social Studies Symposium
- 2024 | Pittsburgh, PA
- Social Studies Classes Are Nonfiction Literacy Classes
Central Intermediate Unit 10 - AI Policy PD for District Leaders
- 2024 | State College, PA
- Rethinking Instruction, Assessment, and Policy in the AI Era
Chester County Intermediate Unit 24 - Gifted & Talented Teachers
- 2024 | Downingtown, PA
- Empowering Gifted & Talented Students to Follow Their Curiosity

Partnerships

For The Juice, I'm always trying to find new organizations, new pathways, and new opportunities for cooperation. I complete RFPs and RFIs, I set up cooperative purchasing arrangements with various state- and regional consortia, I coordinate student data privacy agreements, and I foster any and all dialogues focused on equitably providing The Juice to those who need it.

Management

I manage a national sales team that spans all 50 states and Canada. We are driven and collaborative, working together on every aspect of growing the company: from developing cold outreach strategies, to providing helpful instructional resources to existing customers, to keeping tabs on changes to states' learning standards, and all the way to growing our presence at conferences or conventions, I love leading our talented team of advisors.

Adjunct Graduate Professor

2024–Present

I teach an "Intro to Research Methods" course to first year graduate students. We cover qualitative research, quantitative research, and mixed-methods research.

One of my pedagogical goals is to engage students in the publication process, and all student work is completed with an eye toward building a professional portfolio.

Metropolitan Campus | Teaneck, NJ

MTI Educational Consultants
(Mindful Tech Initiative)

Co-Founder | 2022–Present

I started MTI, an educational consulting firm, with my friend and colleague, Marc Martorana. We provided solutions to districts and schools seeking to make sense of their edtech/AI offerings, policies, and use within instructional contexts.

Marc and I also worked to ensure classrooms remain spaces for open dialogue, kinesthetic learning, and interpersonal skill development.

2022–2023: School District Administrator

In 2022, I finally left the classroom to become the K–12 Supervisor of Humanities, Visual/Performing Arts, and World Languages for the Vernon Township School District. I concurrently served as the district's Advanced Placement (AP) Coordinator.

During my time at VTSD, I was responsible for evaluating 200+ teachers spanning thirteen grades, six buildings, four content areas, and even more educational philosophies.

I'm proud of the work I did to improve vertical articulation, budgeting, state reporting, and hiring within my content areas. I created a new curriculum writing template, redesigned the Course of Studies, adjusted the focus and sequence of secondary ELA courses, managed countless curricular rewrites, and served on the Gifted & Talented Committee. I also designed new ways for teachers to seamlessly track student growth objectives (SGOs).

2016–2022: Contract Work

2022: Carnegie Learning, Inc. | Instructional Designer
- I wrote 10 entire units for CL's Novel Studies program, focusing on texts spanning young adult fiction for the middle grades to classics like The Grapes of Wrath
2021: Harvard University | Course Assessor
- For two Higher Ed. Certificate courses, I graded all students' work. Each week, I offered qualitative and quantitative feedback to each enrolled student.
- Each week, I was responsible for scoring between 45–90 assignments over six months.
2016: Bed, Bath, and Beyond Corporate HQ | Copyeditor
- In the summer of 2016, I was hired to write/edit the product descriptions and make adjustments to the style guide for Bed, Bath, and Beyond's online site.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2023: "Updating the US K–12 Information Technology Curriculum: Teaching Students to Navigate the Personalized, Algorithmically-Curated Internet Experience (PACIE)"
- Chapter in Digitalization, New Media, and Education for Sustainable Development
2022: "Not 'Fit in More,' I Would Say 'Stand Out Less': Dialogical Learning with a Filipino-American High School Student in a Predominantly White High School: A Case Study"
- Article in The Journal of Multicultural Affairs
2022: "Critical Dialogue at the Intersections of Race, Education, and COVID-19"
- Chapter in Self-Care and Stress Management for Academic Well-Being

Dissertation

2021: Examining Teachers' Observations of a 1:1 Student-to-Device Implementation's Impacts on Students' Communication and Social Skills: A Qualitative Case Study
- Baylor University, Waco, TX

2010–2022: English Teacher

After earning my Master's Degree (a year early) in the spring of 2010, I started as a ninth grade English teacher in September. By the following year, I was writing curricula for the district. By my third year, I was advising an award-winning literary magazine, coaching the JV boys soccer team, teaching the multimedia production class I created, advising the after-school research writing program, running the Poetry Out Loud club, and teaching a journalism elective.

In 2013, I changed districts and found a home at Morris Knolls High School. I remained at MK for the next nine years, eventually teaching every single level of grades 9–12: from ninth grade inclusion classes to twelfth grade AP Language & Composition, AP Literature & Composition, and the IB Extended Essay.

At Morris Knolls, I wrote, revised, aligned, and deployed countless board-approved curricular documents for the district. I also created several courses, I ran a "College Essay Writing Camp" each summer, I coached several championship-winning girls soccer teams, but—above all else—I'm most proud of how drastically I broadened access to AP courses. I lobbied for the school to withdraw GPA and prerequisite course requirements, eventually expanding AP Lang & Comp enrollment from 35 to over 120...without seeing any drop in my classes' average exam scores. I find most students are adept when treated as such.

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