Portfolio Selections

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Video Production

My most recent feature, Miles to Go: Women Activists Reflect on the Road Traveled, premieres on September 30th, 2014. Please contact me to request a screener copy.
In 2010, I co-produced, directed, and edited When We Stop Counting. The film, which follows six Latino high school students in Crete, Nebraska, merges student stories with voices of administrators, parents, and scholars to explore community response to demographic change.

When I worked for the Nebraska Department of Education, I had the opportunity to produce a few documentary shorts promoting the work of the agency and best practices in schools across the state. (The majority of my work for the Department was more along the lines of technical assistance webcasts, broadcasts of State Board of Education meetings, and video-based trainings.)
Nebraska Teachers of the Year:
Robotics Championship:
Data Integration at Dawes Middle School:

Writing

As the staff correspondent and communications specialist for the Nebraska Council of School Administrators, I wrote feature articles for their quarterly journal. I also started and managed a Twitter account (@NCSAToday) and wrote semi-weekly blog posts digesting federal education policy for school administrators.

Links to select issues of NCSA Today:

Summer 2014 in press:

Profile of Commissioner Matt Blomstedt

Winter 2014, featuring interviews with Speaker of the Legislature Greg Adams on School Accountability and a Legislative Preview

Spring 2013, featuring the introduction of Teacher/Principal Content Testing

Winter 2013, featuring a profile of Chair of the Education Committee, Sen. Kate Sullivan, and Sen. Jeremy Nordquist on changes to the State Retirement System

In 2012, I was asked by then-Commissioner of Education Roger Breed to author a white paper envisioning a Nebraska’s future schools. The document has served as guidance in statewide education visioning.

Sustaining Nebraska’s Community-Based Schooling Through Technology

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