I like the passion that everyone has for helping students and teachers to achieve at the highest level, and how that passion is the impetus for the products that we develop.
What’s your go-to fun fact about yourself?
EL is my third career. I came from the medical field as a lab tech and Director of a hospital lab, to a MS/HS science teacher, to ExploreLearning.
Briefly describe your job… what do you really do at EL?
I am the Director of a team who has a wide variety of responsibilities.
- The Implementation Manager team supports our highest dollar implementations with planning, goal setting, usage reporting, PD scheduling, sales support, and overall health analysis of the account. They are supported by a group of PD Coordinators for staffing PD, pulling reports and data, supporting our contractors in the field, and any other tasks as assigned.
- The Solutions Specialist team works with our pre-sales customer programs to support grants, pilots, and the Virtual Learning Community. Their support activities are instrumental in providing a first look at our company, our products, and our teams as customers are considering a purchase.
- The Learning Architect team updates and manages our professional development workshops, documents, and videos and help ensure consistency across all of our resources available to our customers.
What do you like about working at EL?
I like the passion that everyone has for helping students and teachers to achieve at the highest level, and how that passion is the impetus for the products that we develop.
What's the most seriously fun thing you've ever done?
The most frightening, but also the most seriously fun thing I’ve ever done was ski-diving lessons when I was in college.
What’s something you’re currently learning (on or off the clock)?
I played the piano for several years as a kid, and I am trying to learn it all over again. My grandson just started taking lessons, so it has been fun for us to talk about.
You just won an all-expenses-paid trip— where are you going?
Australia and New Zealand
This or That… Please respond to all the choices below.
Astronomy or oceanography?
Time travel or Teleportation?
Learn a language or learn how to code?
Lecture or Lab?
Playlists or podcasts?
Discover a new planet or a new animal species?
Take a class taught by Einstein or Marie Curie?
Solo projects in school or group work?
Book fair or science fair? Both, I love reading and have been a judge at science fairs so it would be hard to pick between them.
Who's next?