The Professional Me

Classroom Experience

• Certified Standard Elementary K-8 All Subjects
• 6th Grade Teacher at Centennial Elementary School, Lewiston, ID

• Employed by the Lewiston School District since 1995
• Grade levels taught-3rd, 5th, and 6th
• Above average IRI, ISAT, DRP, and SBAC scores every year
• Long history of positive relationships with students, parents, and staff
• Experience using a wide variety of technology software and devices for instruction in my classroom
• Google Apps for Education (Classroom, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Drawings, Maps)
• YouTube, Edmodo, ClassDojo, Remind
• iPads (classroom set of 26), Chromebooks (18 in my classroom)
• 3 3D printers
• 3 3D Pens
• 48 Ozobot Robots
• 18 Etrex GPS Units
• 4 Makey Makeys
• 13 Snap Circuit Extreme SC-750 sets

Standards Implementation

• Experience implementing standards in three grade levels
• Experience implementing standards in all subjects
• Re-wrote the 6th grade math and language Common Core Standards into student and parent friendly language for goal setting with students
• Participated in writing Idaho’s first computer science standards
• Represented Idaho at the Governor’s For Computer Science Standards Advisory Group meeting in Phoenix with Scott Cook (SDE) and Amit Jain (BSU)
• Represented the computer science standards by attending the Legislative Rule-Making Tour in the fall of 2016
• Submitted written and visual testimony to the 2017 legislative session through IETA on the use of technology in Idaho classrooms
• Featured by Sherri Ybarra during her speech at the IETA Legislative Luncheon for technology integration projects completed in my classroom
• Testified on behalf of the computer science and science standards at the 2017 Post-Legislative Tour

Professional Development

• Just In Time Trainer (Powerschool, Mileposts, AirWatch, JAMF)
• Development of flipped PD (Screencasts) to assist staff with a variety of tasks from Powerschool comment entry to acquiring apps
• Continuing Focus Teacher-year 4
• Building level PD (Google Apps for Education-2015 and Technology Integration-2016)
• Speaker at the Idaho PTA Convention 2016 (Mobile Communication)
• Facilitator at Idaho Core Days 2015 (Mobile Communication Apps)
• Facilitator at Idaho Core Days 2016 (Mobile Communication Apps/Dangers and MakerSpace)
• Facilitator at IETA16 (Mobile Communication Apps)
• Facilitator at IETA17 (Coding for All and ClassDojo)
• NCCE17 Teacher Helper for SparkFun in the full day Maker Summit
• Facilitator at NCCE17 (Making Room for MakerSpace workshop and Mobile Communication Apps/Dangers)

Collaboration

• Long history of working well with district IT and maintenance staff on a variety of technical issues
• Member of the Lewiston School District’s Technology Committee
• Partnering with Idaho’s STEM Action Center for grants (This year-$2,500 project grant and a $1000 Family STEM Awareness Night)
• Providing demonstrations of 3D printing and coding at the Idaho State Veterans’ Home
• Partnering with the City of Lewiston Library for grant writing and to provide activities in The Makery opening June 10th
• Developing relationships and grant ideas with Idaho Fish and Game to advance their STEM offerings