the practitioner-
scholar
intersection.

22+ years in the trenches

My scholarship is not forged in isolation. It is grounded in more than two decades of public school experience—serving as a classroom teacher, department chair, principal, technology coach, and central office administrator.

As a CETL-certified (Certified Education Technology Leader) director, I understand the practical friction of district leadership: balancing regulatory compliance (SOPPA/data privacy), network security, and instructional goals.

the technoskeptical researcher

Currently an Ed.D. candidate at National Louis University, my research centers on the concept of *pedagogical friction*. I study how frictionless algorithmic systems, like generative AI, threaten schema construction by bypassing the productive struggle essential to deep learning.

Through books (including "AI Goes to School"), journal articles, and workshops, I advocate for technoskepticism in K-12 governance: demanding that our tools serve developmental needs rather than industry-driven automation.

A foundational influence on my work is Neil Postman’s Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change (1998). Postman argues that every technology is a trade-off whose benefits and burdens fall unevenly, that each tool carries an embedded ideology, that technological change is ecological rather than additive, and that technologies can come to feel mythic and inevitable. I treat these five propositions as a working test for any AI system entering a classroom: not does it work? but what does it cost, who pays, and what becomes harder to question?

writing & public scholarship

I believe in open scholarship. I serve as an ISTE Community Leader with ISTE+ASCD and a committee contributor with CoSN. I maintain an active writing portfolio translating cognitive science and media ecology into frameworks that educators and school board members can immediately act upon.