Chief Learning Strategist

My professional career is primarily focused in Learning and Development spaces. With decades of training and oversight for health & wellness performance teams, software development teams, and educational curriculum development for children (& teachers) - my passions include ed technology, learning games, sustainability, mindfulness, and modernizing institutional education.

Aspiring Education Games Developer

Games For Change Fan!

Edutopia (George Lucas Foundation) Fan!

My educational background includes two graduate degrees, with the Masters in Education, focused in Montessori Early Childhood Education. Recent research includes exploring children’s video games for healthy educational and behavioral support, documenting the intersection of PreK to Grade 3 core state learning standards with Montessori lesson objectives to create project based curriculum resources - starting with STEAM Grow your Garden resources.

UN Sustainable Development Goals Support - #4 Access Quality Education

This eLearning design experiment combined with creative development of PreK-5 ELA resources, emergent reader storytelling, children’s game design and learning game platform news form a foundation for our AchieveXcellence Club. More to Come!

Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. ALL age groups - ALL Learners love to learn while naturally developing practical, valuable skills !!

Early education projects to promote Life Long Learning skills, sustainability, and environmental consciousness.

S-T-E-A-M stands for project based lessons in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

Project addition in progress 2024 - 2025

Why plant a school garden? School gardens have entered the national spotlight as an effective way to promote life-long healthy eating habits and connect students to the natural world. Gardening provides educators with opportunities to enhance student education through practical, reality-based learning.

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Here are some great school garden resources for Parents, Care Givers, Educators - More to Come!

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Catalysing Education 4.0

Investing in the Future of Learning for a Human-Centric Recovery

There is a unique window of opportunity to invest in Education 4.0: an approach to re-imagining education in a way that is inclusive, focuses on a broad range of skills to prepare learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and leverages technological and pedagogical innovation to put learners at the centre of learning.

Games For Change (G4C) Learn programs empower youth to become socially conscious digital storytellers, using game design to integrate STEAM skills with social emotional learning — including empathy, cooperation, communication, problem solving and systems thinking.

G4C Learn professional development programs invite educators from schools, museums, and informal learning settings to harness the power of games and play in their curriculum.

generative ai, instructional designer, project-based learning, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, teacher development, technology integration, prompt engineering, transformational strategies, innovation, learning,

“So when we look at reforming education and transforming it, it isn't like cloning a system. There are many great models.

It's about customizing to your circumstances and personalizing education to the people you're actually teaching. And doing that, I think, is the answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution; it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.”

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