Middle School Diversity Equity and Justice (DEIJ) CoordinatorTeaches 7th and 8th Grade History, Grade Level Lead COVID-19 Reopening Taskforce Member, DEIJ Taskforce MemberAdvisor: Student Council, Newspaper, and ModelUN

Taught World History (Piloting Project Based Learning Models During Remote Learning: Remote Maker Projects Through Remote Exhibitions and In-Person Hybrid Teaching)• Launched the Scott Center Summer Civic Institute for Middle Schoolers (Summer 2020 and Summer 2021) and Scott Center ModelUN Program• Designed a Student World Food Filmmaking Course and Restorative Justice Youth Court Course• Led a faculty action research group on supporting middle school boys using the work of Michael Reichert, Michael Gurian, and the Representation Project.

Served as Dean of Humanities (History, English, and Jewish Studies Departments) and Academic Technology Integrator• Taught World Civilizations, Economics, AP Government, and Digital Citizenship• Created a civics field study to take students to learn public policy on-site in Sacramento and on-site at the US-Mexico Border.• Created an in-house Israeli-Palestinian startup competition to use technology to solve regional challenges.

Taught AltSchool Discover (Lower Elementary) and AltSchool Maker (Design Thinking and Game Design) Summer Terms

Founded the middle school program ("LabX") and served as the school's first K-8 academic director.• Developed Khan Lab middle school's ("LabX") first self-directed learning routines that utilized daily team building, student-led project meetings, Asana goal setting, and Portfolium student self-curated portfolios, that mixed student-initiated personal projects with a themed community inquiry project.• Developed community inquiry projects that included: learning to build a boat, creating a startup, conducting Big Data research, and putting on a Shakespeare play.• Created and implemented Khan Lab School's in-house experiential programs including: camping and mountain climbing, NYC Model United Nations, SF oral history projects, state drama competitions, student-led research at Facebook, and a Draper University entrepreneurship competition.• Trained the middle schoolers to independently navigate every Bay Area transportation system from bikes, trains, buses, to ferries.• Negotiated with edtech companies to pilot blended learning platforms with an emphasis on adapting college MOOCs for a middle school environment: MasterClass and FutureLearn.• Trained students in schoolwide community meeting, meditation, and end of the day schoolwide clean up.• Developed Khan Lab School's student governance program using Summerhill and Sudbury Valley's governance models that emphasized mixed age bonding, mentoring, and rule setting and enforcement. • Developed teacher training and professional development, facilitating prominent visitors to come work with KLS teachers, as well as sending KLS teachers off-site to work with teachers at other schools around the nation. • Traveled to leading self-directed communities: Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud, Acton Academy, NuVu Studios, and North Star Academy to begin collaborations with Khan Lab School.• Launched and curated Khan Lab School's social media communications on Facebook and Twitter.

2014 Janet Erskine Stuart Award for Excellence in TeachingMission of the Sacred Heart Schools is "social awareness that compels to action."• Developed an interdisciplinary PBL sixth grade curriculum focused on all students creating rigorous real life work products such as creating: a mobile app to address social issues in China, a psychological field study and documentary on subjective wellness, and their own graphic novel of Omnivore’s Dilemma.• Co-developed and co-teaching an eighth grade law program where students for the last two years argued appellate cases at Stanford Law School and attended the Global Model UN Conference in NYC.• Co-developed and co-teaching the seventh grade Japan field study where they present at UNICEF Tokyo. • Faculty leader in the planning of student-led conference based on the work of Ron Berger (EL Schools).• Faculty leader in the middle school 1:1 laptop roll out (PC Tablets) and then the conversion to 1:1 iPads.• Faculty leader in Schoology integration using the learning platform for digital portfolios, flipped teaching, a staff virtual PLC, and course gamification. In my gamified classroom, each class practices democratic decision making by electing class consuls and group chiefs that run daily tribal councils and meditations.• Planner and leader of school-wide SEL and community building whole day and half day assemblies.• Co-Founder of the Sacred Heart’s mutli-age house system based on Harry Potter and our school’s core value system “Code of the Heart” that allows students K-8 to build cross-age friendships and mentorships.

Served as Board President, Board Vice President, and Board Clerk

(January to June 2012, taught AP World History and AVID at Mountain View High School)

2010 Monta Vista High School Teacher of the Year• As part of PBL government, piloted the district’s first BYOD, coached We the People (09-11 CA Finals), created and led annual DC field studies during which students researched live bills, lobbied in Congress. • Developed an oral history project where students worked with Holocaust survivors and veterans each year.• Launched a student social entrepreneurship incubator that trained students on how to start non-profits. One team of students raised over $10,000 for the India Earthquake by selling custom-made silicone wristbands.• Served on the district’s 21st-century learning & professional learning community workgroups.• Served on the district’s wellness and stress taskforce through Denise Pope’s SOS Initiative.

• Involved in the school’s shift to site-based decision making and trained in the faculty consensus model.

• One of six founding teachers of a college preparatory smaller learning community serving at-risk students.• Created partnerships with Project Reach and the LES Girls Club to co-develop social justice curriculum.

Resumed teaching here in 2007 (above).