2019-present PowerSchool Administrator, Milton Town School District
2013-2019 Supervisor of Educational Technology, Lincoln School District 156
2010-2013 Fourth and Fifth Grade Classroom Teacher & Computer Teacher, Hoover Elementary School
2006-2010 Supported Education Aide, Brooks Middle School
Education
2023 (expected) M.Div. Meadville Lombard Theological School
coursework towards Ed.D. Lewis University, Educational Leadership for Teaching and Learning
2013 M.Ed. Lewis University, Educational Leadership and Administration
2010 B.A. Trinity College, Elementary Education
2008 A.A. College of DuPage, Psychology
Research Interests
Pragmatist aesthetics and the classroom experience of continuity in doing and undergoing
Derivation and creativity, the relationship of copyright policy to students’ creative agency
Curricular theories of improvisation and responsiveness to student agency and compassionate interactions
Material intelligence and technological simulation, the interaction of networks upon aesthetic experience
Presentations
“Subverting STEM: Answering Economic Aims with Material Intelligence,” Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH, 01 November, 2018
“Critical Autoethnography: A Reflective Practice for Rehumanizing Pedagogies,” Lewis University Celebration of Scholarship, Romeoville, Illinois, 20 April, 2017
“Education of Becoming: The Ethic of Creativity in Dewey’s Democracy and Education,” Dewey’s ‘Democracy and Education’: 100 years on, University of Cambridge, UK, 28 September-1 October, 2016.
“Trust the Students: A Rational Foundation for Humanizing Classroom Interactions,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 11-13 September, 2015.
“The Imperative of Trust: Trust in Students as a Foundational Teacher Value,” Lewis University Celebration of Scholarship, Romeoville, Illinois, 16 April, 2015.