Heather.Simonovich


 * Heather Simonovich **, Campbell Adult and Community Education

Application -

Administrator's focus:

Please describe the applicant’s current assignment, technology experience and leadership qualities, as well as the program’s overall commitment to technology integration and to the nominee’s participation in TIMAC, and what area you would like them to focus on in their mentoring of other instructors in your program. Heather capably coordinates our distance learning program, which is both the traditional DVD check out (offered 6 days a week, and 8 teachers under her coordination) and also migrating to more online delivery. She has been instrumental in working with publishers (and building a partnership with LAUSD)to get their approval to deliver instruction through the virtual desktop modality in our district (which means students access from home), lead a team of three teachers through the OTAN Moodle training this year, has been an effective leader in our school leadership team advocating for technology (tools, strategies, professional development, aligning digital literacy to schoolwide student learning outcomes), and will coordinate a summer "beta" project where four ESL teachers will deliver instruction online only to over 120 students. Heather is organized, forward-thinking, collaborative, and absolutely committed to the goals of TIMAC.

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Three things that are interesting about me: - I'm a Bay Area native from an English speaking family, but I lived in Medellín, Colombia as a young adult; I went to undergraduate university in Medellín and that's where I started teaching English. - I live in Cupertino, CA, where there was a bit of turmoil yesterday... - I just went to my 20 year High School reunion on Saturday.

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