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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Key accomplishments:✅ Expanded reach to 1.2 million educators, 88K U.S. schools, and 80% of Title 1 schools.✅ Attained an average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 70.✅ Directed and responsible for education program goals, strategy, budget, and KPIs. Supervised a team of 5 direct reports, as well as external contractors and agencies.✅ Expanded programming distribution by 40% through in-kind and revenue-generating partnerships.✅ Led advisory, thought leadership, and research partnerships with universities. ✅ Engaged with philanthropic foundations, and supported grant writing and fundraising, resulting in an average of $5M raised for the Education program per year. ✅ Oversaw program and content strategy for K-12 education, including the award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum (lessons, videos, digital games, and parent engagement). As a result, 94% of students reported increased confidence in understanding digital citizenship, and 92% of educators reported improved positive classroom culture around technology.✅ Managed the Edtech Ratings and Reviews program, including 3,500 reviews of edtech tools based on a rigorous evaluation rubric to help educators discover great tools for learning. As a result, 85% of users reported the ratings influenced their decision to use or adopt edtech.✅ Oversaw editorial and content strategy (including blog, videos, and weekly newsletter). Increased newsletter subscribers by 30% to 300K, and reached 100K YouTube subscribers. ✅ Defined online professional development strategy, including asynchronous training and webinars, and supported Outreach managers with live training and workshops, reaching 40K educators per year.✅ Collaborated with the Product team on improvements, builds, UX research, and priorities on the product roadmap, including migration to Drupal 9. ✅ Collaborated with Marketing and Communications on GTM plans and campaigns, and with Advocacy on initiatives targeting digital access and equity.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

✅ Led the content team, instructional design, product priorities, and the impact of the flagship Digital Citizenship Curriculum. ✅ Supervised a team of 3 direct reports, as well as external contractors and agencies.✅ Managed a large-scale project to overhaul the Digital Citizenship Curriculum, resulting in a new curricular framework, 73 lessons, 33 videos, and a new content delivery product for schools. ✅ Collaborated with the Social Media Lab at Cornell University to co-develop Social Media Test Drive, a simulation game for middle school students.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

✅ Directed professional development content catalog and KPIs, including designing asynchronous courses, training materials, implementation guides, and webinars, training an average of 50K educators and 15K parents per year. ✅ Built an asynchronous online course in Teaching Digital Citizenship, with 2K completions per month.✅ Directed the build and launch of Common Sense Premium, a learning management system (LMS) and professional development product for school districts, using Cornerstone OnDemand.✅ Developed a Digital Citizenship Implementation Toolkit, featuring school and district case studies, and an implementation framework based on models of promising practice from the field.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

✅ Established inaugural Common Sense Ambassador Program, training 150 educators in digital leadership.✅ Oversaw community engagement strategy, launching Facebook group to grow to (current) 18K members, and edWeb group to (current) 33K members. ✅ Co-developed online professional development videos/courses with partners, reaching 15K educators per year.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

✅ Developed and managed professional development content and training materials for implementation managers. ✅ Oversaw conference strategy and submissions with 80% proposal acceptance rate.✅ Presenter at education and edtech conferences (ISTE, CUE, FETC, SXSWEdu).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

✅ Created the first award-winning K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and digital games, teaching students internet safety and responsibility. ✅ Honored with 4 awards for this program (i.e., Tech & Learning, eSchool News Readers’ Choice).✅ Managed a large-scale project with Apple Education and Metrodigi, creating 8 iBooks Textbooks for teachers, utilizing interactive learning features of ebooks, and hosted in the iBooks Store.

Collegeville, Pa, Us

✅ Taught undergraduate courses at the Media and Communication Studies Department at Ursinus College, including Media and Society, and a special course on Media and Children.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

✅ Taught undergraduate public speaking courses, including developing the syllabus, assignments, grading, and advising students.

Chicago, Il, Us

At the Media Education Lab at Temple University, I worked on projects focusing on media literacy education and outreach, including:✅ Multimedia/game development for My Pop Studio: Developed curriculum, managed focus groups, and facilitated pilot sites in formal and informal learning environments. My Pop Studio is the first-of-its-kind media literacy game for tween girls that teaches critical thinking, analysis, and creation skills for media. ✅ PBS Frontline documentaries - developed parent and teacher education materials for PBS Frontline documentaries Growing Up Online and Digital Nation; and developed curriculum for PBS's "Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement" guide for teachers during the 2008 election. ✅ Parent, Child, and Teacher Media Education Workshops. Provided workshops for communities in the greater Philadelphia area on topics such as parenting in a digital age, cyberbullying, body image, and media and representation of alcohol and tobacco. ✅ Professional development specialist for the Summer Teacher Institute at Powerful Voices for Kids, educating K-6 teachers about incorporating media literacy in their classrooms. ✅ Worked with Girls Inc. and Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania to implement media literacy programs for the health and well-being girls in grades K-12.

Denver, Co, Us

✅ Developed multimedia edutainment game for the Tobacco Education and Media (TEAM) grant to teach middle school students about the representation of smoking in movies. Implemented and pilot tested the game at middle schools in Denver, CO. Results: Students decreased their attitudes around seeing smoking as desirable behavior, and learned how smoking can be overrepresented, glamorized, and a form of product placement in movies.

Denver, Co, Us

✅ Taught Communication courses to nontraditional and working undergraduates, including Introduction to Communication Studies and Public Speaking. In the public speaking course, I approached the course with invitational rhetoric, a feminist method of public speaking and communication developed by scholar Dr. Sonja Foss.

Denver, Co, Us

✅ Taught Communication courses to undergraduates, including Introduction to Communication Studies, Communication Theory, and Public Speaking. I developed curriculum, syllabi, lectures, and advised students.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Media And Communication

Master Of Arts - Ma, Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Bachelor'S Of Arts, Communication And Visual Arts