Professional Development

Completed 90+ hours of intensive technical training at Norfield in the setup and operation of Haas CNC vertical mills to fabricate precision components for industrial door machinery. Responsibilities included interpreting CAD/CAM files and engineering drawings to maintain tight tolerances through meticulous tool calibration, parts inspection, and routine preventive maintenance. This role also required supporting multi-stage assembly operations to ensure strict adherence to quality control standards within a high-output production environment.

Facilitated a content-specific math tutor training for the Student Learning Center, designing the curriculum around ideas developed during my master's thesis research on effective math support models. The training focused on how tutors can ask productive questions, support student reasoning without giving away answers, and adapt to a range of problem-solving approaches in co-requisite and transfer-level courses.

Faculty participants will learn about how to manage the classroom equipment, the features and configurations to engage in-person and online students at the same time. Faculty mentors will lead and facilitate a cohort of up to 15 faculty. GoFlex will support faculty in leveraging tools (e.g. Poll Everywhere for polling students both online and in-person at the same time), sharing templates for student activities and best practices for classroom rules of engagement in this new environment.

A semester-long commitment to a shared space for faculty to develop and share research ideas, set publication goals, and hold each other accountable. The community provided structured peer feedback on drafts, helped members clarify arguments, and offered motivation to push writing projects past the idea stage and into submission.

5 workshop training meant developed to assist faculty and instructional designers to more effectively create and deliver online, blended, and flipped courses.

A semester-long training meant to support teaching across the disciplines and consider how our students, nascent learners in our fields, become full participants in our courses, in our disciplines, and importantly, in pursuit of their learning goals.

8 training days inviting participants to think about teaching and learning with a focus on first-year students. Our goal: to support teaching across the disciplines, while thinking about how to best support first-year students as novice learners.

Guest speaker instructing north state K–12 teachers on CCSS mathematical practices, with a focus on connecting procedural fluency to conceptual understanding. The session modeled classroom activities that use the Standards for Mathematical Practice to structure student discourse and problem-solving, and gave attendees transferable strategies they could bring directly back to their classrooms.

A five-day training for faculty to learn how, and to have the time, to convert existing classes into effective online or blended courses.

A multi-day training designed to develop and hone your abilities in becoming a facilitative teacher, understand the curriculum's approach to building on students' patterning abilities to see algebraic structures which is pivotal for each course, understand the daily structure and curriculum components, and discuss adaptations for teaching the QR courses in distance learning conditions.

Guest speaker for a professional development session instructing co-requisite math faculty on CCSS mathematical practices under Executive Order 1100. Shared strategies for integrating mathematical practice standards into co-requisite support courses, helping faculty connect skill-building activities to the reasoning demands of transfer-level content.

Five-day summer workshop focused on student-centered, problem-based teaching strategies for geometry. Participants worked through rich tasks as learners first, then debriefed the pedagogy behind each activity — examining how to launch problems, facilitate productive struggle, and use student work to drive whole-class discussion rather than lecture.

A multi-day conference where educators from around the country showcase how they implement CPM's problem-based curriculum. Sessions covered team structures, homework strategies, assessment practices, and how to support struggling students within a collaborative, inquiry-driven classroom model.

A one-day workshop introducing educators to Maker educational tools and the pedagogical principles behind Maker culture in the classroom. Participants explored hands-on hardware (microcontrollers, sensors, basic circuits) and discussed how open-ended making projects can build student agency, persistence, and cross-disciplinary thinking.

An interactive workshop where participants will be introduced to the innovative, integrated STEM curriculum.

Multi-day training for effective teaching strategies for AP Calculus AB and BC. Topics included pacing the curriculum around the AP exam, using graphical and numerical reasoning alongside algebraic methods, designing free-response practice, and leveraging College Board resources to align classroom instruction with exam expectations.

Multi-day AVID certification training focused on strategies that support first-generation and underrepresented students in meeting college eligibility requirements and thriving once enrolled. Covered Cornell note-taking, Socratic seminars, inquiry-based learning, and tutorial support structures designed to build academic habits without lowering rigor.

Participated as a classroom teacher in an early-phase experimental research study conducted by WestEd to develop and evaluate emerging technology tools designed for the math classroom. Contributed classroom observations, student outcome data, and practitioner feedback to inform iterative tool design across a multi-year development cycle.