Elizabeth is an Educational Lead Learner in the Silicon Valley. She currently is the Director of Learning, Innovation, & Design for Preschool - Grade 12 at an independent school, additionally teaching one section of 6th Grade Innovation Lab in a state of the art Makerspace. Her primary responsibilities focus on creating, finding and implementing creative professional learning opportunities for faculty across TK-12 grade levels.
Elizabeth has experience as a county office of education administrator leading large-scale collaborative projects across diverse communities. This was following her work as a site administrator in Grades 6-12 after teaching High School English, including Reading Intervention courses, Advanced Placement Language, and has experience as Newspaper Advisor, Mock Trial Coach, and English-Language Arts Department Chair.
She holds an Ed.D. from Northeastern University in Integrative Studies, with research focused on teacher wellness, professional learning strategies, and its impact on student learning. She also holds a Master's of Science in Educational Leadership and a Bachelor's of Arts in English with a minor in Psychology, along with her teaching and administrative credentials.
Elizabeth holds the following distinguished honors:
2015 ACSA (Association of California School Administrators) Technology Administrator of the Year,
Google Certified Innovator and Trainer,
CUE Lead Learner,
Sony Education Ambassador,
ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) SIGILT (Special Interest Group: Innovative Learning Technologies) Member at Large,
Past Lead 3.0 Conference Planning Committee CUE Representative (Lead 3.0 is a California state-wide conference, collaboratively produced by CUE, ACSA and TICAL),
FableVision Ambassador, and
Leading Edge Certification Professional Developer.
She has co-authored the following books, among a variety of published articles:
Creating a Google Apps Classroom
Using Technology to Improve Reading & Learning (Foreword)
Insatiably curious, Elizabeth loves time with her family (including as many fur children she can manage), curling up with a good audiobook, baking and sharing, designing, traveling, and she can periodically be found going hard on MarioKart. Birdo or Daisy are her preferred characters, and she/her/hers are her preferred pronouns. (Why is this important?)