Using Media Arts to Facilitate Learning Across Content Areas

Debbie Bermeo is an Instructional Technology Coach and Facilitator in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Coach in a VIL School, a Coach Corp Mentor with Digital Promise Verizon Innovative Learning Schools, and a member of the Instructional Technology Initiative with the LAUSD. She designs and delivers in-person or virtual professional learning sessions in the LAUSD and across the United States, leads virtual discussion groups, coaches teachers on instructional technology, mentors educators and other instructional technology coaches, models lessons, and provides resources to educators.

Ed Zurita is an ISTE Certified Educator and member of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Division of Instruction Instructional Technology Initiative (ITI) where he helps to lead the district’s 21st century instructional practices through implementation of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards and the district’s Leading with Instruction approach. Mr. Zurita provides professional development, support and training to teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals and other educational staff both in the schools that he serves and throughout the district.