Creative as a noun? Yep. I said it and I meant it. My husband, Joel prefers to sum up my performer spirit as pure “ham-nation.” He says I shift into a higher gear when I have an audience. Sure, I enjoy hammin’ it up but as an introvert it’s probably more accurate to speak of my creativity as energy existing in me, as me and through me that I simply MUST let out. I am a creative which for me means I am a dancer, a storyteller, a vocalist, a violinist, a writer and still more that I’m still discovering about myself.
Webinar Presenting
IB MYP & PZ: Visible Thinking Routines in Distance/ Hybrid Learning Space
DCPZ Workshop: Crew Building in the Distance Learning Space using PZ Ideas
WISSIT 2020 (Online) Closing Plenary Session Co-presenter
Easy PZ with the Smithsonian: How to Engage Your Students with Project Zero Thinking Routines
Easy PZ with the Smithsonian: Think/ Puzzle/ Explore (Focus: Student Inquiry)
Creating Curriculum for the Smithsonian Learning Lab
Art & Resistance Series
Collection #1: Frederick Douglass
Collection #2: Black Women Subjects Free From The Gaze
Collection #3a: Kent Monkman & The Residential Indian Boarding School
Collection #3b: The Poetry of Joy Harjo
Collection #4: Unmasked (Covid Protest Related Collection)
Distance Learning Series
Teaching the Graphic Memoir Persepolis
Teacher Washington Crossing the Delaware X3
Teaching English/ Language Arts (E.L.A.)
African American Literature Curriculum
Intro to The Great Gatsby: A Study of Class in America
Group Presentations on The Great Gatsby Historical & Cultural Context
Reading Strategies for The Great Gatsby
Characterization in The Great Gatsby
Finish the Scene Writing Practice using The Great Gatsby
Teaching Advanced Placement Language & Composition (A.P. Lang)
2017-2018 Notes on AP Lang Teaching & Exam Reading
Teaching International Baccalaureate Literature (I.B. Lit.)
Seneca Valley High School Diversity/ Equity/ Inclusion Committee
Maryland State Education Association
Recent Curriculum Writing
Art & Resistance: Frederick Douglass
Art & Resistance #2: Black Women Subjects Free from the Gaze
Distance Learning: Teaching Persepolis
Recent Professional Development Facilitation
DCPZ Workshop Facilitator
We Are All Crew: Crew Building in the Distance Learning/ Hybrid Space
IB Mid Atlantic Coordinators Meeting (Using Visible Thinking Routines) Video
Easy PZ Smithsonian Online Webinar Presenter
Easy PZ: Building a Culture of Thinking in the Classroom Video
Easy PZ with the Smithsonian: Think / Puzzle / Explore (Focus: Student Inquiry) Video
National Network of Schools in Partnership 2020 Conference Co-Presenter (Museums Go Global Partnership)
WISSIT Faculty
WISSIT 2020 Closing Plenary: Learning Deeply with Museum Resources Video
WISSIT 2020 Learning Group Leader & Museum Course Co-Instructor
WISSIT 2019 Learning Group Leader & Museum Course Co-Instructor
WISSIT 2018 (Fellow)
