Faculty & Staff at TUC

Intramural Funded

2012                Principal Investigator. Teacher Candidate Development through Gaming. Touro University California Intramural grant to fund presentation of the simSchool Modules Project findings. $2,000.

Extramural Funded

2013-2014          Principal Investigator.  Intel Teach State Affiliate Program.  Selected as one of 10 universities to participate nationally. The goal is to create online learning modules and digital learning tools to be used in the GSOE credential and Master’s programs at Touro University California using seven “Elements” courses designed by Intel.  Intel will provide travel scholarships, mini-research grants, and royalty-free licenses to their Elements courses aligned with the Common Core State Standards and inTASC Standards.


2010 – 2012        Coordinator. NapaLearns Scholars Program. This program provides direct grants to Graduate School of Education candidates to earn their master’s degree in the educational technology or innovative learning programs.  To date, NapaLearns has allocated $135,000 in grant funds to directly pay tuition to the university

2011 - 2013               Principal Investigator. simSchool Modules Project. Next Generation Learning Challenge funded project in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This international collaboration of colleges and universities are creating instructional modules and using deep analytics to help pre-service teachers better contextualize and target their own learning and improve their overall self-efficacy professionals. The simSchool module project was selected from a field of more than 600 pre-proposals and 50 finalists. Provides free access to the simSchool simulator for all Touro credential candidates.  Licenses valued at: $35,000.2010 – 2012        Coordinator. NapaLearns Scholars Program. This program provides direct grants to Graduate School of Education candidates to earn their master’s degree in the educational technology or innovative learning programs.  To date, NapaLearns has allocated $135,000 in grant funds to directly pay tuition to the university

2004 – 2006                 Principal Investigator and Author. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs.. Program Improvement grant.  Awarded $36,855 accumulated from San Francisco Unified School District.

2004 – 2006                 Principal Investigator and Author. University Internship in the Multiple-Subject and Single-Subject Credential Programs. Program Improvement grant. Awarded $18,524 accumulated from Oakland Unified School District.

2001 – 2005                 Principal Investigator/Project Director. The Teaching and Learning Interchange Project. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal of this grant is to utilize case methods and internet technologies to provide mentoring and professional development for under-prepared teachers in Math and Science. http://www.teachinginterchange.org   Awarded: $1.5 Million

2001 – 2002                 Interim Project Director. Infusing Technology into Teacher Preparation. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant. The primary goal was to infuse technology throughout the teacher education curriculum at University of San Francisco. Awarded: $582,000

1999 – 2003                 Dissemination Coordinator, Site-Level Investigator, and Co-Author. Staff Teacher and Restructured Technology Education Consortium: Project StarTEC. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Catalyst grant to develop models for professional development for institutional-level implementation of the new California technology standards.  Writing team member; Managed project dissemination at state, national, and international conferences and local coordinator of project at Notre Dame de Namur University (1999-2001) and University of San Francisco. http://www.startecproject.org  Awarded: $1.8 Million

2000 – 2004                 Project Evaluator and Co-Author. Project TNT: Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Implementation Grant. The primary goal of this grant was to use video technology to support higher education faculty development regarding effective use of technology in the curriculum at California State University, Bakersfield. http://www.projecttnt.com  Awarded: $1.6 Million

1999 – 2000                 Principal Investigator. Building an Online Community for the Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Project. Oracle Community Foundation Grant.  Developed internet-based communication resources to support new teacher mentoring, lesson planning, skill development as well as formative and summative assessment. A number of experimental groups were chosen to explore the means and methodology of using technology and video to support teacher mentors and apprentices. Project results published in dissertation. Awarded $25,000

1999 – 2000        Project Evaluator and Co-Investigator. Teaching with New Technologies. A U.S. Department of Education Office of Teacher Quality Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers