About Me
Educational Leadership | Academic Programming | Assessment & Accreditation
Innovative educational leader with 16 years of experience in school management, public policy, counseling, curriculum, instruction, and assessment. A strong advocate of creating a positive culture and climate in educational environments conducive to best teaching practices, mentorship, and a clear and shared vision with equity at its forefront. Exceptional leadership skills to build diverse, inclusive, collaborative, and respectful learning cultures centering on wellbeing and quality education.
Educational Technology Leadership
Education & Certifications
New Jersey City University-Ed. D.
Educational Technology Leadership
Educational technology leader and innovator for school systems and educational programs
Felician University- M.Ed.
Educational Leadership & Supervision
Principal Certificate
Supervisor Certificate
William Paterson University-M.Ed.
Professional and School Counseling
School Counselor Certificate
Montclair State University- B.A.
Early & Middle Childhood Education
K-5 Teacher Certificate
I build on my leadership expertise in educational technology by implementing research best practices and collaborating with all stakeholders. Through the use of technology and innovative platforms, educators open students' eyes and views of learning. These technological tools build student interest and allow engaging, tailored learning through 21st-century paradigms. I trust that my dedication, positive energy, collaboration, and innovation will contribute to the success of any school district.
Fundamentals of EdTech Leadership
This course is the initial intensive summer seminar for incoming doctoral cohort candidates. This is a foundation course that outlines the expectations and practices of the program. It also introduces candidates to the program’s mission of preparing effective leaders for an interdependent world.
This project aims to work collaboratively with my cohort by developing a website that expresses our leadership styles, including creating a name for our cohort, a mission, and the skills required as educational leaders in this technology-rich world.
This project required an analysis of the group showcase, focusing on individual contributions, centering on my leadership strengths and weaknesses from the group showcase.
This plan was created to learn and expand on my leadership approach. It includes my vision, mission, and goals as an educational technology leader throughout the doctoral program.
Summer I 2020-Dr. Zieger
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EdTC 801: Summer Institute I
This course focuses on concepts and strategies necessary for a leader in a technologically rich learning environment. Topics include strategic planning, leadership styles, institutional change processes, and policy issues in educational technology.
This project was completed with Susan Deehan Murray, focusing on the trait approach to leadership, including a brief history and development of the theory presented in the Northouse book and other research studies. We identified the strengths and weaknesses of the model and the practical uses of the leadership theory in context.
This project aims to develop a proposal for a specific application of technology in an educational setting. I propose improving student achievement through instant formative and summative assessments on digital platforms (Accelerated Reader, STAR Reader, and Edulastic) with immediate feedback, collaborative and student-led instruction, standard/skill-based centers, and rigorous morning afterschool tutorials targeting standards from scores on the digital platform assessments.
To complete this project, a review of all relevant literature related to a specific topic was conducted. The literature review focused on technology-based educational leadership. My vision of leadership in educational technology is to create a foundation of success that draws from the strengths of educators and quantifies the efficacy of student learning advances by improving their educational technology experiences.
EdTC 802: PRINCIPALS OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP
Summer I 2020-Dr. Carnahan
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EdTC 804:Global Issues in Educational Technology Leadership
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Paper 1: This paper discusses the Steve Jos School. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the school that thinks different, through the context of Arnove's three dimensions of comparative education: scientific, pragmatic, and global.
This course investigates educational technology from a global perspective. The issues covered will include development strategies, diversity, cultural values, and educational technology's systemic roles in international development. The course will focus on a cross-cultural examination of contemporary academic and work skills.
Paper 2: This paper examines and evaluates the Pearson Initiative and international development through the context of three of the five global development paradigms: Liberal Capitalism, Marxism, and Radical Humanis.
This project analyzes six nations (Singapore, China, Mexico, Chile, India, and the United States) school systems, highlighting their experiences, visions, and contributions utilizing 21st-century competencies.
This group project centers on educational innovations that have allowed us to Leapfrog during Covid-19. The presentation focuses on Cogent Education, Buzzmath, Santilla platform, and the educational innovations' similarities and differences.
This evaluation uncovers how the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) has impacted Mexico's competencies in its education system.
Fall 2020-Dr. Shamburg
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This paper includes an interview of a fellow classmate’s experience as a professor during the Covid-19 pandemic. An online transcript service was utilized to transcribe the audio file.
This paper is an open code utilizing ATLAS.ti from the interview conducted for assignment one. The report displays findings of themes and patterns from the interview.
For this assignment, a permission form and survey were created utilizing Qualtrics. The online permission form is consent to voluntarily continue with the survey/to participate in a research study.
This course examines the patterns of traditional use, current issues, and emergent trends of digital technology in learning, and develop an expertise to function as entrepreneurs in establishing new products or services.
This paper focuses on data collected from qualitative survey responses on the difficulty educators experienced with teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers' responses were quoted and coded utilizing ATLAS. ti. A frequency table was created to represent the number of times specific codes were applied to each response. The code co-occurrence table displays how often a combination of codes was linked to the quotations.
This final report discusses the findings from
my six previous assessments’ datasets and coursework.
This assignment focused on creating three Spearman correlation data tables utilizing Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software to create, analyze, and report a large participant dataset.
For this project, pivot tables, tables, and figures were created utilizing Microsoft excel for clear, organized, and concise interpretation of data collection and analysis.
EDTC 813: ADVANCED USING INTEGRATED
SOFTWARE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Summer II 2021-Dr. Shamburg
For this assessment, a video training module was created on online etiquette, intellectual rights, social media, and confidentiality for teachers seeking to participate in professional learning communities through social media.
This course prepares students to serve as professionals who promote the development and implementation of technology infrastructure, procedures, policies, plans, and budgets for schools and organizations at an advanced level.
This memo, website, and associated artifacts show the development of an asynchronous and synchronous PD experience for teachers on Google Classroom. This project was completed with cohort members Frank Ciccitto and Susan Deehan Murray.
This paper analyzed the role of the technology coordinator and provided a job description and policies and procedures manual for an elementary, middle, and high school technology coordinator.
This paper describes the technology implementation plan of incorporating the educational technology platforms Accelerated Reader, STAR Reader, and Edulastic to improve the quality of English Language Arts instruction and increase proficiency rates on standardized state assessments.
Fall 2021-Dr. Amerman
EDTC 815: Administration and Supervision
in technology in educational setting
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This course will center on teaching adult learners in post-secondary educational and corporate environments.
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Summer III 2022-Dr. Amerman
EDTC 812: Teaching in the Adult
Learning environment
Theory & Practice
This paper analyzes the similarities and differences between jobs in K-12 education, higher education, and corporate sectors that are associated with educational technology. The purpose of this paper is to show the various jobs that are available for educational technology leaders, the specific qualifications required, income, and how the jobs can be obtained.
This course is the second intensive summer seminar for second-year doctoral candidates. The course focuses on building the skills, knowledge, understanding, and commitment necessary to become effective educational technology leaders in various organizational settings.
My professional growth plan was created during Summer I. I expanded on my leadership approach and professional services. This assignment includes the revisions of my goals as an educational technology leader throughout the doctoral program.
This project permitted me to edit and revise my digital portfolio based on my experiences and concluded assignments thus far from the educational technology leadership doctoral program.
Summer II 2021-Dr. Carnahan
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EDTC 808: Summer Institute II
This project centers on a professional development goal, implementing digital resources and online educational platforms to aid academic growth and success. The technology use proposal is to improve the quality of third-grade instruction utilizing data grounded by annual needs assessments by using digital resources, online educational platforms, and targeted standard/skills-based instruction to drive student achievement.
​This course focuses on exploring and evaluating advanced and emergent technologies and how education and training leaders learn and sustain them in a learning environment. The course assists educational and corporate professionals in developing innovative educational and organization practices across disciplines.
This project was a group assignment that focuses on emerging technologies or a particular type of technology-based experience for evaluative analysis. The topics centered on computational thinking, robotics, and the maker movement.
Fall 2020-Dr. Zieger
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In creating this website with Filiz Guven Zeybek, we intend to help educators, students, and parents stay mindful and prepared in education during Covid-19.
EDTC 805:Cross-Discipline Studies
In Technology
This paper focuses on the American curriculum struggles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It discusses the battle of power of various researchers and committees during this era.
This course provides a landscape of implementation and evaluation of educational technology programs. The philosophies, methods, and processes of curriculum design in educational technology will provide the framework for curricular models, resources for decision-making, evaluation methods for educational and corporate settings.
This paper covers the history and development of the informal learning trend, Makerspace. Makerspaces allow students a place for exploration, discovery, hands-on or digital learning experiences that relate to our everyday world.
This paper proposes to implement a technology-related curriculum in a Summer Opportunity for Advancement in Reading (S.O.A.R) program. When literacy learning in S.O.A.R is leveraged with technology education, a balanced literacy approach is delivered. The combination of whole language and phonemic awareness will aid in increasing student reading levels and comprehension skills.
This paper compared the progressive and conservative perspectives in education by analyzing the views of Alfie Kohn, representing the progressive view, and E.D. Hirsch Jr. expressing the conservative viewpoint.
Spring 2021-Dr. Amerman
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EDTC 807:Implementation and Evaluation
of curriculum
The class was split into teams for this project to compete in a virtual Mt. Everest expedition. Each team member was designated to be a specific mountain climber with a task. The expedition's goal was to collaborate and work as a team to ensure everyone safely reached the top of Mt. Everest.
This course centers on concepts and strategies required to integrate technology and e-learning as an educational technology leader. Curriculum decisions, strategic planning, policies, and leadership styles were examined.
This assignment was an evaluation of two different higher education case studies. In both cases, issues were identified, a needs assessment was made, and probable solutions were provided for the areas of need.
This e-learning proposal recommends BASE Education, an e-learning platform with various social and emotional learning (SEL) skills and strategies for well-being, coping mechanisms, digital citizenship, bullying, and equity for middle school students. The proposal includes my leadership style, vision, plan, budget, and goals for implementation.
Summer II 2021-Dr. Zieger
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EDTC 814: Advanced Effective Models of E-Learning
This assignment is a webliography of online communities that integrate or utilize technology as their main feature. In total, thirteen online communities were analyzed. The online community's distinctive attributes, concepts, and member interactions were examined and discussed.
This course provides the theory and practice of online communities. Essential concepts, methods, skills, and tools were introduced to design and maintain positive and engaging interactive online communities.
This project required the creation of an online community prototype. Mindfulness and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) through E-Learning is an online Facebook community dedicated to utilizing technology in teaching SEL and mindfulness. In addition to the prototype, a paper was written explaining the design process and the choices that were made in its creation. The project was completed with cohort member Filiz Zeybek Guven.
This group project analyzed the Pennsylvania Association of Educational Communications and Technology (PAECT) online community. For this analysis, the online community's goals, accomplishments, and metrics to reach their goals were discussed. The project was completed with cohort members Alex Alexandre, Frank Ciccitto, and Kristina Harb.
Spring 2022-Dr. Zieger
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EDTC 816: Advanced Methods for Building
Online Communities
Summer III 2022-Dr. Carnahan
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EDTC 817: Advanced Developing
and Managing DL Programs
This course allows students to analyze the pertinent issues affecting distance education. The coursework includes the historical and current evolution of distance learning. Students will analyze educational and corporate best practices in planning, establishing, and maintaining distance instructional programs.
Scholorship & Research
EDTC806: Research Methods in Educational Technology
In this quantitative study, the overall purpose is to determine any correlation between mindfulness and social-emotional learning practices in education during Covid-19 and student academic achievements. This study's driving questions are: How can mindfulness and social-emotional learning help students cope during Covid-19? How can social-emotional learning aid and academic achievement during Covid-19? What are the most critical factors of mindfulness practices that influence student well-being during Covid-19?
This course focuses on the content and mechanics of practical data analysis and report-writing. With the program’s emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and innovative learning experiences, this course is an in-depth treatment of the research process and techniques for planning and designing research projects. Emphasis is held on the appropriate choice of methodologies for various problems.
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The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study is to explore how charter school teachers define their experiences with job demands, teacher burnout, and the contributing factors for their intent to leave the charter school sector in Charter Schools in Northern New Jersey. The central phenomenon for exploration is the perception of charter school teachers regarding the job demands that influence their intent to leave the charter schools. This study will also examine work-related stressors that are associated with teacher turnover rates in Charter Schools.
The purpose of this mixed methods research is to analyze a S.O.A.R enrichment program utilizing early intervention strategies through a balanced literacy approach with digital literacy programs for students in kindergarten to third grade who are at risk of retention or are below grade level with literacy skills. The research will address the questions: How does the balanced literacy approach impact students' K-3 reading levels and comprehension skills? How does responsive teaching affect students, and is there a correlation between incorporating a balanced literacy approach utilizing digital literacy programs and responsive teaching with increased reading levels and comprehension skills? What are the effects of balanced literacy and responsive teaching on the reading growth for students in K-3 that attend the Summer Opportunity for Advancement in Reading (S.O.A.R) enrichment program?
Spring 2021-Dr. Carnahan
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Assessment 4 includes visual representations of collected and curated data on the United States school enrollment in 1985, 1995, and 2005. The diagrams display an examination and evaluation of the changes in enrollment and the difference between public and private school sectors.
This course focuses on the content and mechanics of practical data analysis and report-writing. With the program’s emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and innovative learning experiences, this course is an in-depth treatment of the research process and techniques for planning and designing research projects. Emphasis is held on the appropriate choice of methodologies for various problems.
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Assessment 1 aimed to consider how to integrate technology into a landmark using appropriate design elements. The educational objective for this unit of study will allow 5th-grade students to understand the history, mythology, region, and museums by reading and visiting the beautiful sites of Cappadocia. Students will have a website, an interactive PowerPoint presentation, GoogleMap’s 360 Images, Google Expeditions to get up close with the historical landmarks of Cappadocia, and a Virtual Reality app to explore and embrace the underground cities regions, monasteries, and museums.
Assessment 3 required an analysis of the data received from an end-of-the-semester survey for a university professor. The purpose of the quantitative analysis was to determine whether or not a professor met the requirements to receive tenure. This project is presented in memorandum format.
Assessment 1 focuses on qualitative data coding and determining common themes. This paper analyzes four common themes among 10 company founders featured in the "How I Work" series.
Summer I 2020-Dr. Amerman
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EDTC 803: Data Analysis
and report writing
DESIGN
This revised professional growth plan (PGP) includes my professional and academic goals, reading plan, attended seminars, renewal activities, a list of the accomplished goals throughout my doctoral studies, and a continued plan of study.
This course is the third intensive summer seminar for Year III doctoral cohort candidates. Students will develop their research knowledge and skill and present their scholarly work to a broader audience. Students will defend their dissertation proposals and professional portfolios during this time.
Summer III 2022-Dr. Shamburg
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EDTC 811: Summer institute iii
Spring 2021-Dr. Carnahan
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This observational exercise required a one-hour observation of a public place. This observation was conducted on the behavior of individuals studying at Panera Bread in Montclair, New Jersey. An analysis was constructed and reported on common themes from the observation.
This course is an introductory to systematic inquiry utilizing assessment methods to understand, evaluate, and solve user and organizational needs. Students will utilize the learned research methods from this course and implement them in real-world educational and corporate settings.
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This study explained the rationale for a qualitative study investigating the implementation and effect of an e-learning platform, BASE Education, on middle school students' well-being and academic development.
This qualitative research outline was developed to aid middle school students' well-being and increase academic achievements by creating and implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) activities and lessons through an e-learning platform: BASE Education.
This qualitative field research proposal was developed support middle school students' well-being and increase academic achievements by creating and implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) activities and lessons through an e-learning platform: BASE Education.
Fall 2021-Dr. Carnahan
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EDTc 809: Assessment and evaluation
EDTC 810: Statstics for educational
research
This paper analyzed five methods of peer-reviewed research studies on social and emotional learning in education. The paper includes similarities and differences in methodology, sample size, population, instrument, and data analysis techniques.
The course aids students in analyzing, evaluating, and applying statistics in research from academic websites, journals, dissertations, scholarly articles, and technical reports. The primary goal is for students to apply the introductory concepts and approaches of descriptive and inferential statistics to real-world applications.
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The final project included all elements of a research paper, including the research problem, significance of the problem, research questions, existing research, population and sample, methodology, and data collection and data analysis procedures.
This paper re-examined the five peer-reviewed studies from Assessment 1 on social and emotional learning in education. The analyzed data was utilized to link and correlate back to the initial research questions of the research studies.
Spring 2022-Dr. Connolly
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EDTC810: Statistics for Educational Research
In Dissertation I, students will expand and refine their research paper, including but limited to the research problem, the significance of the problem, research questions, existing research, population and sample, methodology, and data collection and data analysis procedures.
In Dissertation II, students will conduct their research, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, and document findings for future research in educational technology.
EDTC 901 and EDTC 902
