Graduate Work

This professional development workshop explores practical ways educators can integrate AI tools to enhance lesson planning, assessment, and classroom workflows. It includes a full training plan, slide deck, facilitator script, and evaluation measures designed to support teachers in using AI with purpose and confidence.

​A gamified multiplication experience designed using the ADDIE model and grounded in student motivation principles. This project blends game mechanics, student personas, instructional alignment, and engaging challenges to strengthen fourth graders’ fluency and confidence with multiplication facts.

A research-based examination of classroom economy systems and their impact on student motivation, self-regulation, and homework completion. This literature review synthesizes key findings and connects them to classroom implications and instructional decision-making.

A student-centered SEL module focused on developing self-regulation skills and emotional awareness. This unit includes lessons, visuals, routines, and tools that help students identify feelings, build coping strategies, and create a supportive, calming classroom environment.

A fully asynchronous instructional unit designed to support fourth graders’ understanding of fractions through interactive lessons, videos, checks for understanding, and digital tools. This project showcases thoughtful instructional design, accessibility, and student-paced learning.

This infographic explores the important role assessment plays in game-based learning. It shows how games allow teachers to observe learning in action, using student choices and gameplay behaviors as meaningful evidence of understanding. The design emphasizes the power of immediate feedback and how it supports student growth. It also highlights the ways evaluation can guide and refine game design, creating richer learning experiences. Visual storytelling is featured as an effective way for students to process and communicate their learning.