Thomas Gaffey Email & Phone Number

Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pa

As the Chief Instructional Technologist and Building 21, I co-created the Learning What Matters (LWM) Competency Framework and the Building 21 instructional model, developed a Google Apps-based prototyping system for data dashboards, and designed a competency-based LMS within the open source platform, Slate. I am now leading an expansion effort to help districts across the country use the Learning What Matters (LWM) competency framework to personalize education for students.

Philadelphia, Pa

The School of the Future Partnership Foundation (SOF Partnership Foundation) supports the programmatic, curricular, and technological needs of the learners at The School of the Future (SOF), a public high school in West Philadelphia, and provides opportunities for SOF to share best practices with the broader education community.The School of the Future Partnership Foundation seeks to provide resources to essential programs that differentiate SOF from other public schools in Philadelphia. SOF is uniquely designed to bridge the technology gap that exists in urban education, through a one-to-one laptop program and innovative approaches to learning. The SOF Partnership Foundation ensures that these important and essential programs can continue, improving the quality of education for Philadelphia students at SOF and creating educational opportunities for those learners and families most in need. The SOF Partnership Foundation helps to provide opportunities for SOF educators to evangelize their experiences and best practices for the broader education community.

Greater Philadelphia Area

The mission of the School of the Future is to question everything we know about education as being continuous, adaptive and relevant. The challenge is to truly individualize the learning experience for every learner.As an educator at the School of the Future, you work within a team to create engaging projects for learners that will give them skills that have been neglected by traditional models. These "21st Century Education Competencies" must be assessed along with content to ensure that learners are truly prepared for a quickly evolving world.

Facilitated Judicial Hearings for students who violated university policy.Designed a programming model to help create a community of positive social and academic interaction among students in the residence hall.

Followed test procedures in order to verify and validate efficiency of programs used to facilitate operation of PET Scanners.Reviewed and edited software and hardware test procedures.Modified and debugged problematic code in C.Worked daily in Unix/Solaris 9 Environment.Worked closely with programmers and engineers in order to resolve issues in faulty programs and hardware.

Trained in and Studied PLC program design.Developed technical proposals and contracts for design installations; for cargo and weapons elevators on Naval ships.Technical point of contact for a project to replace the safety systems of elevators on a Naval ship.Managed a team of contractors during the installation of safety systems for cargo and weapons elevators on a Naval ship.Conducted on-site modification of a design for proper and efficient installation.Produced AutoCAD drawings to illustrate project designs.

Masters, Secondary Math Education

Bs, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Minor in Philosophy