My career as an educator spans 33 years from an intermediate school educator in East New York to a Technology Teacher Trainer (T3) in Longwood. During my time in Longwood, I have taught on the elementary and intermediate levels, coached sports teams, been a club advisor and taught adult education. Among the most significant achievements of my educational career was being inducted as a member of "Who's Who of American Teachers" in 1984. Several years later in 1997, I was included in the New York State Academy of Teaching and Learning based on an elementary newspaper project for which I was the faculty advisor.

In 1998, Longwood appointed me to the position of Elementary Technology Teacher Trainer. Included in my responsibilities was the training of over 300 teachers from the District's five elementary buildings. My selection for this position was based on my reputation as an educator as well as integrator of technology into my classroom. During the past five years as Technology Teacher Trainer (T3), I became proficient in the training and use of numerous software packages from the Microsoft Office Suite to the Macromedia suite of web design tools. Due to the training implemented by our district, the Longwood staff has grown form neophite users to sophisticated integrators of technology into the classroom. Our teachers have participated actively in Model Schools and SCOPE workshops as a means of demonstrating the skills garnered through training. In 2003, we had 25 representatives in attendance Model Schools Celebration of Technology. The year before, the Longwood program, and its participation in Model Schools, was featured on News 12.

Over the summer vacations, I facilitated several workshops offered to Longwood educators sponsored by the district. The end products of these workshops were the creation of over 50 WebQuests by our staff as well as a manual including over 30 educational projects and activities available to our staff in booklet form. The administrative technology group (ASSET) honored my work with a technology staff development award in 2002.

My position evolved over the past four years to include creation and maintenance of the Longwood School District web site. I received webmaster certification from SCOPE in 1999 as a means addressing this additional responsibility. Under my creative guidance and coordination, the Longwood website won an unprecedented number of educational and design awards from recognition as a Newsday Cool Site to the International Association of Web Designers award. Our website was featured three times as a USA Best Bet last year. Considering that USA Today only selects 150 of the best educational sites each year this is an impressive honor.

During my years as a staff developer, I have become an instructor for MESTRACT and SCOPE. Included in my course offerings are desktop publishing courses using Microsoft Publisher as well as online course offerings on the creation of WebQuests. Due to the popularity of the WebQuest online course, a new course offering featuring Front Page will be offered for the first time this summer (2003).

My experience as an educator, technology staff developer and expert web designer is now being made available to surrounding school districts on Long Island as a consultant. In each of my roles, the goal is the same..." to implement technology into the educational process."