Educator Voices Lightning Talks

Jody Britten serves as the Head of Research and Innovation. She is Team4Tech's resident cheerleader for community, innovation, and data. As a well-known international thought leader in EdTech, Jody's work at Team4Tech helps global partners scale their work to make learning more accessible, inclusive, and globally relevant. Since joining Team4Tech her work has been celebrated at SxSWedu, QS Reimagine Education, the Wharton School of Business, the AI for Good Convening in Geneva, and the Global Education Coalition at UNESCO. She serves on the leadership team for Ai-for-Edcuation.org and is an appointed member of the HP Futures Council on EdTech for Teachers.

Dr. Shokry Eldaly is a distinguished educator and leader, serving as faculty at Bank Street GSE and thw Bank Street Center for Ed, as Director of NYC's Future Ready Learning Labs, as Chief Learning Officer at Aldrin Row, and as a Visiting Doctoral Professor Learning and Leadership at Columbia University. He is also the Founder and CEO of Grow Society, an education consultancy partnering with over 1000 schools worldwide.

Carly has worked in education for fifteen years as a teacher and educational technology trainer. Carly has a B.S. in Secondary Education – Language Arts from the University of Cincinnati, is a Google Certified Educator and Microsoft Innovative Educator and has earned a Blackboard Catalyst Award for work on content creation and online instruction. Carly is finishing the last courses for her M.Ed. in Instructional Design and is currently teaching language arts and history courses at the Davidson Academy Online. She continues to develop online courses and content as well.

Dr. Kaylah Holland is passionate about empowering educators through professional development, one on one coaching, and innovative lesson design. She holds a Doctorate of Education in Instructional Design and Technology with extensive research in active learning environments. She has spent years empowering educators and championing student-centered classrooms. She is a Google Certified Trainer & Innovator, a college professor, an ISTE community Leader, and was presented the “20 to Watch” award by ISTE in 2022. Kaylah is the Director of Instructional Technology and Blended Learning for BreakFree Education and works to empower educators to radically improve education inside juvenile justice facilities.

In 2020, Ms James, a National Board Certified and award-winning middle school educator, started posting grammar lessons on TikTok in order to reach virtual students. Within six weeks, she had 100,000 followers. Now, she has nearly 6 million followers from 86 different countries. Not only does she serve as an inspiration to teachers, but ESL learners have learned basic grammar skills needed for language acquisition, others have received academic refreshers, and many find her content useful to study for academic tests. Ms. James says she is excited to use her platform to highlight the amazing impact ALL teachers have.

Dr. Sharon Matthews is an instructional coordinator at NERIC, focusing on supporting the integration of technology into learning. Her expertise includes teaching P-12 special education, as well as preparing pre-service teachers in general and special education. Areas of expertise include supporting and developing inclusive, universally-designed and differentiated instruction as well as data-literacy for instructional decision making. Dr. Matthews' work as an instructional designer, educator, and teacher-leader focus on advocacy for enhancing educational opportunity for all students through a social justice approach to teaching and learning to empower teachers to lead in the 21st century classroom.

I am Scott Sieke, a passionate educator teaching and learning STEAM topics with students and educators across the state of Colorado with the University of Colorado Boulder's Science Discovery.

Jason Trinh is the coordinator of Global Competencies, STEM/ICT for the Toronto District School Board in Ontario, Canada. In this role, he supports digital learning across the district through the design and delivery of professional learning. He is the recipient of the Premier's Award for Teaching Excellence and the ISTE Digital Equity Award, and was named to the ISTE 20 to Watch list. He shares beyond his district as a Google Innovator, Google Trainer, Apple Distinguished Educator and ISTE Community Leader. He is passionate about digital creativity and digital equity and share this as a speaker/facilitator.