Piper Penning Joseph Email & Phone Number

Ohlone Elementary School

San Francisco Bay Area

Designer, author, and consultant with expertise in e-learning, learning design, user experience, project management, and education (K-20)Projects include: EDWARDS MEDIATION ACADEMY--Learning designer for higher education elearning start up in the field of law, consulting from conception to online build ready including designing the learning experience in close collaboration with SMEshttps://edwardsmediationacademy.com/ADOBE WW EDUCATION--Learning designer of online professional development for educators that fosters the use of Adobe products, moving beyond tool use to using the tools to enhance learning. Content areas include social media, building your brand, STEM to STEAM, visual literacy, and interdisciplinary learning.--Contributor to design of custom CMS--Program manager facilitating the relationships with third-party professional development vendorshttps://edex.adobe.com/TEACHSCAPE--Designer and author of professional development and training materials for the Reflect product--a system that integrates 360 video and collaboration tools with a research-based frameworks on a platform for scalable, systematic, and consistent evaluations to support teacher self-, peer-to-peer, and formal observationshttps://teachscape.com/

Ohlone Elementary, Jl Stanford Middle School

Parent leader at Ohlone Elementary School which consists of 600+ students K-5 and a PTA membership of 400+. Ohlone is a "choice" school within the Palo Alto Unified School District. The school embraces a philosophy built on the uniqueness of every person, the trust and respect that every person deserves, and the need to develop the whole child. A portion of Ohlone classrooms are Mandarin immersion. Ohlone enjoys an on-campus farm.

San Francisco Bay Area

-Designed online professional development workshops for educators (K-20) for the Adobe Education Exchange http://edex.adobe.com/-Authored PD workshops including fostering visual literacy, interdisciplinary learning, STEM to STEAM, creativity, infographics, data visualization, and digital storytelling (content curated from the web and Adobe Education Exchange community resources) http://edex.adobe.com/professional-development/-Authored "Build Your Brand" series of PD workshops for educators including introductory information on social media, Twitter, website authoring, and digital portfolios-As of Q1 2014 17,000+ learners WW

San Francisco, Ca

• Designer and author of face-to-face and online professional development for teachers and school administrators in the areas of literacy, mathematics, early education, coaching, instructional strategy, reflective practice, and teacher effectiveness. • Creator of interactive course components to enhance adult understanding and learning.• Orchestrator of the capture and use of video as a means of making expert knowledge, instructional, and leadership practices explicit.• Writer and designer of instructional guides for general website use and navigation, as well as software and hardware use.• Author of scope and approach documents in addition to design requirements, specifications, budgets, and timelines.• Project manager working directly with subject matter experts, production teams, and external clients.• Clients included Arkansas, Ohio, and Florida Department of Education; KU Center for Research on Learning; McREL; Texas Instruments; UT Health Science Center's Children's Learning Institute; and Stanford University.

San Francsco Bay Area; Winnetka, Il

• Designer of curricula that harnesses intrinsic motivation—optimizing understanding and learning.• Promoter of engagement in reflective, analytical, and creative thinking by establishing purposeful activities involving quality literature and by relating the literature to a learner’s interests and existing knowledge.• Implementer of a constructivist approach to mathematics, deepening understanding of concepts from concrete to symbolic representations—encouraging oral and written expression of concepts through inquiry and collaboration.• Teacher of writing skills and structures while emphasizing writing as means of creative expression and as vehicle for reflection.• Valued and promoted the social skills of cooperation, self-control, empathy, assertion, and responsibility.• Assessed using summative and formative authentic methodologies and modified plans and instruction accordingly.• Differentiated instruction for all learning styles including special needs and English language learners.

Evanston, Il

• Developer of an interactive video case study capturing teaching methods, student reactions and efforts to learn, in addition to other complex classroom dynamics to effectively help teachers tackle the challenges associated with both inquiry and innovation in learning technologies. • Research scientist for practice-based professional development, researching and documenting the challenges and strategies that extend both subject matter understanding and pedagogical expertise.• Evaluator of all aspects of curriculum support for teacher learning of content and skills in pilot mathematics curriculum; including the design, presentation, and analysis of professional development seminars.• Researcher in alternative approaches to teacher training and the design of innovative curricula.

Greater Chicago Area

• Co-founder of online university’s user experience group and usability testing lab with Don Norman, internationally recognized thought leader in usability and human-centered design.• Designer and administrator of user test protocols and focus groups directly observing behavior and interviewing online learners, as well as paper prototypes to identify optimal organization, nomenclature, and navigation.• Author of summary and recommendation reports leveraging qualitative and quantitative user test data.• Advocate for best pedagogical practices and usability principles on graduate course development teams.• Architect of interactive tools to enhance learning as a result of needs assessment interviews.• Executor of heuristic reviews of online university website’s information architecture.• Designer of online “Getting Started” and “Help” course features as a result of user testing.• Evaluator of the usability of online university’s discussion tool, resulting in specific user interface and functional improvements.

Ma, Learning Sciences

Learning Sciences is an interdisciplinary field that works to further scientific understanding of learning, engaging in the design.

Multi Subj Credential, Education

Ba, Psychology

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