Now available! Offense and Defense "cheat sheets" - the top 3 things players at different positions or teams playing particular formations should know and be able to do. Download the PDFs for Offense and Defense.
	Now available! How to Set (and Beat) a 3-2-2, a presentation I gave at the second annual Ultimate Coaches and Players Conference (January '08). Available as a flash movie.
	Now available! Ultimate Fitness: Fitness Training for Ultimate Players, a 65-minute DVD which I co-wrote, co-directed, and co-starred in, alongside NBA Boston Celtics strength and training coach Bryan Doo. Produced by Tightline Productions. See previews! More...

Education
MA Educational Studies, Tufts University (2005)
MA English and American Literature, Brown University (1998)
BA English and Spanish Language and Literature, Wesleyan University (1993)

About me
I began teaching as a Spanish teacher in 1994 at Johnson County High School in Wrightsville, Georgia, through Teach For America. In my second year in Georgia I moved to teaching English. After graduate school at Brown, I taught English in the Broadened Opportunities for Officer Selection and Training (BOOST) program at the US Navy base in Newport, Rhode Island. Following this, I taught high school English for two years at the Chase Collegiate School in Waterbury, Connecticut. During this time I spent my summers in Providence, Rhode Island, teaching English and study skills seminars through the Upward Bound summer program at Rhode Island College. After a year as a content producer for Fact City, a real-language database search engine, I came to Tufts in 2001 as the founding director of the Curriculum Resource Center in the Department of Education. There I wrote and directed technology-enhanced grants, develop curricula in teacher education and professional development, designed educational software, and dreamt up new ways to use video to help teachers and students learn from their experiences in (and out of) the classroom. I am now a Senior Online Development Specialist at The Center for 21st-Century Skills @ Education Connection in Litchfield, Connecticut. I develop and support state-wide project-based online high school curricula featuring annual design competitions in Ecommerce and Information Technology. I also lead a state-wide Open-Source technologies initiative for public schools and libraries.

My philosophy
I believe in the value of offering cognitive apprenticeships (Lave and Wenger, 1991) that facilitate students’ learning to think like the experts in that discipline. I am particularly persuaded by the thinking of the Coalition of Essential Schools and Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound.

last updated:1/27/08