Accomplishments

  • ECCHO Award
    • ( Spring 2020). The Goochland School Board’s semi-annual award to recognize employees who show strong alignment to the division’s core values of excellence, creativity, courage, honor, and optimism through their service
  • Apple Distinguished Educator
  • Google Certified Teacher
    • Level 2 (January, 2019). Manage Google infrastructure for district under Google Admin; years of leading teachers in use of Google tools
  • Apple Distinguished Schools/Program
    • Four of our schools in Goochland County were recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program for our 1:1 efforts with iPads. Was pleased to work with our technology team, instructional leadership team, and our teachers and parents to be able to increase the quality of learning with technology in our schools and be recognized for visionary leadership. Our schools renewed with this program in 2017 individually and will re-apply in 2019.
  • VSBA Showcase of Success Recognition
  • CPED Dissertation in Practice of the Year Award
  • Top Ten Digital School Districts 2014, 2017
    • Our district was recognized by the Center for Digital Education and National School Board Association as the 7th best district in the U.S. with fullest implementation of technology benchmarks in the category of small districts (3,000 students or less)
  • ISTE Making IT Happen Award
    • December, 2012 – Recognized at the annual conference of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education
  • Converge Magazine 50 Most Innovative Educators
    • December, 2012 – Recognized by The Center for Digital Education as one of the most 50 innovative educators due to my accomplishments in the field of education technology
    • Senator Mark Warner (VA) congratulated me on this distinction
  • RichTech Education Finalist
    • December, 2012 – Finalist for RichTech’s education award in the field of technology
    • RichTech is a professional organization that recognizes excellence in the field of information technology across businesses in the Richmond, Virginia area
  • VSTE Board of Directors
    • I served as a director on the VSTE Board from July, 2008-June, 2013.
    • From July, 2012-June, 2013 I served as vice-chairman of the board.
  • Virginia Tech School of Education Excellence in Education Award
    • 2007 recipient for the Goochland Blogging Initiative
  • Virginia Department of Education State Technology Leadership Award
    • December, 2006 I received the Virginia DOE’s highest recognition for leadership in technology both in Region 1 and statewide

Updated March 2020