Danielle Klingaman, Ed.D.

Dr. Klingaman is currently the Superintendent of Schools for the Duxbury Public School district. Dr. Klingaman began her professional career working with adolescents with mental health and behavioral challenges in a residential treatment program and later worked as a special education teacher in the Wrentham Public School district before beginning her successful 18-year career in school administration. Dr. Klingaman served as the Assistant Principal of Central Elementary School in East Bridgewater, the Principal of L.G. Nourse Elementary School in Norton, the Principal of Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Elementary School in North Attleboro, and Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Duxbury Public Schools. Dr. Klingaman holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Northeastern University, a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Bridgewater State University, a Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Special Education from Bridgewater State University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dr. Klingaman previously served on the MassCUE Board of Directors as well as the Principals’ Advisory Cabinet for the Department of Secondary and Elementary Education (DESE). Dr. Klingaman was a member of the DESE development team that wrote and developed tools for The Inclusive Practices Guidebook. Dr. Klingaman’s doctoral research focused on school culture, change theory, and effective leadership practices. She has led teacher and administrator professional development and coursework in curriculum, pedagogy, and technology integration.

Dr. Klingaman lives in Attleboro with her husband and two children.

Alan C. November

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.

Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.

Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Tech and Learning magazine. His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling books. Alan’s most recent book “Who Owns the Learning?” is on the New York Times education best sellers list for 2013. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.

Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and educators from more than 25 countries.

Jared Perrine

Jared Perrine is the Director of Technology at Narragansett Regional School District. He is a proud board member/committee member of MassCUE and a board member of METAA (state chapter of CoSN). He also has his Massachusetts CTO certification (based on CETL), is a member of the Digital Learning Advisory Council (DLAC), and is a 2015 MassCUE Pathfinder. Formerly a teacher, Jared has his M.Ed. from Lesley University in Instructional Technology.

Sarah Boyle

Sarah Boyle is an enthusiastic Technology Integration Specialist who has been working at Milford Public Schools since 2014. She is a Google Certified Trainer, Seesaw Ambassador, and Pear Deck Coach. Sarah earned MEd degrees in Educational Technology and Teaching English as a Second Language and holds Massachusetts teaching licenses in Instructional Technology, English as a Second Language, and Elementary Education. She is also an adjunct professor at Framingham State University.

Sarah is passionate about planning, creating, and delivering professional development opportunities focused on bringing technology into classrooms in purposeful ways to enhance student learning. She also models best practices that ensure student access, engagement, and choice. Sarah has over 10 years of elementary classroom teaching experience where she pioneered integrating available technology devices and platforms into instruction and routines. Sarah is a born-and-raised farm girl from Maryland and currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two children, and their dog.

Jessica Brittingham

Jess is the Director of Technology and Digital Learning for Uxbridge Public Schools. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from UMass Boston in 2000 and a Master’s Degree in Professional Writing from UMass Dartmouth in 2007. She taught fourteen years of high school English in Westport and Dartmouth before assuming a role as Technology Integration Specialist with Uxbridge Public Schools. Jess was promoted to Director of Technology and Digital Learning in October, 2022.

Jess is a Google Certified Trainer, a Google Certified Coach, and is a MassCUE Instructor. Jess began working on her doctorate degree in Educational Leadership in May 2022, and expects to graduate in winter 2024.

TJ Carron

TJ Carron currently serves as the Director of Technology for the Southern Worcester County Regional Vocational School District, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Quinsigammond Community College in Worcester. Prior to this, he served for a decade with Northborough & Southborough Public Schools in a variety of technology support positions, most recently District Technology Manager.

TJ has been involved in MassCUE for what must be a decade, since the move of the fall conference venue to Gillette Stadium. Each year he was eager to see the work of the MassCUE Board and many others as the walkways became smaller and smaller as more administrators, educators, and students packed the venue to share our combined passion for EdTech.

Holli Caulfield

Holli Caulfield is currently the principal of the Ralph Wheelock School in Medfield. Before coming to Medfield, Holli was the principal of the Oakdale School in Dedham from 2005-2019. Prior to becoming an administrator in Dedham, Holli was an assistant principal in Walpole. She began her career as a kindergarten and then a second-grade teacher at the Old Post Road School in East Walpole. Mrs. Caulfield was so effective in relaying computer and digital skills to students that they, in turn, taught those skills to adults visiting Caulfield’s classroom regularly. While at the Old Post School, she also wrote and received several Lighthouse grants from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She was a member of the K-12 Technology Steering Committee, and was featured in a Department of Education video on technology-integrated instruction. In 2000 Holli received the Milken Family Foundation Outstanding Educator Award. In 2004 she went on to receive a Milken Festival for Youth grant creating an outdoor environmental classroom. In her free time she enjoys traveling with her husband and children, cooking, and reading.

Eddie Chen

Eddie Chen is a District Technology Coach for the Worcester Public Schools. Prior to this position, he taught 7th grade science for 4 years at Worcester East Middle School. Eddie is passionate about bringing citizen science and experiential learning into the classroom. Similarly, he strives to integrate technology use to enhance learning and remove barriers to increasing science literacy. His background in community organizing with environmental nonprofits influences his work supporting caregiver and educators through data informed decision making.

Eddie earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a Masters of Arts in Teaching at Clark University.

He is an avid native plant gardener and naturalist.

Lori Cooney

Lori is a Program Director of Inclusive Education & Curriculum Design for the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at UMass Boston.  She has over 25 years of extensive experience in designing and delivering professional development on universal design for learning, inclusive design, curriculum development, course design, technology integration, academic and career portfolios, early transition, college and career readiness, and assessment strategies. She coordinates a Federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) grant for Future Quest Island-Explorations, a fully accessible career awareness gaming adventure for elementary school students and teachers. She serves as a technical training advisor for the Education Transition Team at the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she provides regular support and training on UDL and inclusive technology practices for transition inclusion.

Prior to her tenure at ICI/UMB, Lori was an instructional designer at Bristol Community College where she collaborated with teams of faculty members on 26 course redesigns on a Title III grant. From 2005-2011, she was the technology coordinator for Bishop Stang High School where she designed and implemented cutting-edge technology initiatives across the curriculum.

Over Lori’s career, she has been honored with several awards, including the 2012 MassCUE Pathfinder Award, a Technology Humanist Award from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is recognized as a Christa McAuliffe Teacher by the Challenger Learning Center at Framingham State University for her dedication to education.

Casey Daigle

Casey has been co-creating with educators and edtech for 14 years. She is a professional mistake-maker and revels in learning alongside anyone who will have her. As the Digital Learning Manager for the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES), Casey spends a lot of time exploring how we invite connection and imagination through technology. Her expertise centers on program development, instructional design, changemanagement, and facilitation.

She is an ISTE Certification Authorized Provider, ISTE Certified Educator, Google Certified Trainer, and whimsical weirdo.

Why is she here? Because she’s eager to build futures in which people control their own attention and encounter belonging in every space they enter. Aren’t schools the perfect place to seed these futures?

Erin Fisher

After teaching in the classroom since 2005, Erin Fisher became Technology Integration Facilitator (PreK-12) for the East Bridgewater Public Schools, a 1:1 Google Reference District, in 2016. She has presented at the MassCUE conferences, Bridgewater State University, Medfield DLD, GooglePalooza and leads professional development in East Bridgewater focusing on integrating technology in the classroom. Erin teaches two graduate courses on Technology Integration as well through the Plymouth County Education Association. She is a Google Certified Trainer, certified Pear Deck Coach, Kami Hero, and Wakelet Ambassador. She is Co-Chair the Communications Committee and an Awards Committee member. Erin holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Rhode Island College, and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instructional Technology from Framingham State University.   

Steve Guditus

Steve Guditus is the Principal of Eddy Elementary School in Brewster, MA, which is part of the Nauset Regional School District. Steve is passionate about student engagement, innovation, and integrating edtech with fidelity, purpose, and to facilitate higher order thinking. Steve is passionate about building relationships with educators and learning from one another. Steve has presented at various local, regional, and national conferences, and was a 2017 MassCUE Pathfinder Award Recipient. Steve is a co-organizer of EdCamp Boston, and has served on various panels and cabinets, including the The Teacher Collaborative, TeachersConnect, Venture Cafe, and the DESE Principal Cabinet. Steve earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, a master’s degree in teaching and learning from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a master’s degree in organizational management from Endicott College. He was a director of educational technology for the Tri-Town School Union, which serves the elementary schools of Boxford, Topsfield and Middleton, MA; a middle school social studies teacher at Blake Middle School in Medfield, MA; an assistant principal at Stony Brook Middle School in Westford, MA; and a principal at Manchester-Essex Regional Middle School in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA prior to his current role.

Andrew Marcinek

Andrew Marcinek is currently the Chief Information Officer at Worcester Academy in Worcester, MA. Prior to his role at Worcester Academy, Andrew served as the first Chief Open Education Advisor for the US Department of Education. As Open Education Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, Andrew focused on expanding and accelerating the adoption of open education policies within the Department, encouraged the expansion of such policies across the federal government and supported initiatives that dramatically increased the curation and sharing of open educational materials by educators throughout the country. As part of this campaign, Andrew organized a White House event that brought together EdTech companies, district and state leaders, and nonprofits. This event helped launch a national movement called #GoOpen that supported PreK-12 school districts in the expansion of implementing openly-licensed educational materials, the development of better discovery and curation tools from Amazon, Microsoft, and Edmodo, and guidance for strategic planning and sustainability.  

Andrew previously served as the Director of Technology for Grafton Public Schools,  Groton-Dunstable Regional School District and taught English Literature at several public high schools in Philadelphia. Additionally, he served as an Instructional Technology Specialist for Burlington High School and helped lead one of the first large scale 1:1 iPad initiatives in the country. This work was recognized globally by Apple and awarded Burlington High School with the Apple Distinguished School award in 2012. Andrew designed and taught one of the first student-led technology help desks, which became a blueprint for districts across the country. The “Help Desk” course provided students with leadership opportunities inside and outside of the classroom, opportunities to connect with technology developers and be active participants in their learning. Andrew published his first book in 2014 with Corwin Press, The 1:1 Roadmap: Setting the course for innovation in education and his second book.  

Andrew received his M.Ed from Eastern University and a Bachelors degree in Communications from the University of Miami, FL. And, he is dedicated Philadelphia Eagles fan.  

David Martinez

Born in Boston, David is the son of two Boricua parents: one an educator born in Puerto Rico and the other a police officer from the Villa Victoria in the South End. He is a BPS grad, educator, organizer, consultant and coach with over a decade of experience in the education sector.

He grew ever more aware as a young person the need for equitable education. Upon graduating with his bachelor’s degree from Gordon College, he went on to teach in Camden, New Jersey for five years as a Math and English as a Second Language instructor.

As an educator, David became intimately aware of inequalities within the education system. His students inspired him to learn more about the systems that created unnecessary roadblocks for his students. While teaching, he attended Temple University, where he received his M.Ed. in Urban Education with an Education Policy specialization.

He grew more and more interested in impacting education through addressing policy issues in his hometown, Boston. David worked over two years as Outreach Director and advocate before returning to schools; having spent the last two years as a school administrator in BPS. He truly believes in a cogenerative and community approach to positively impacting lasting change in the classroom and beyond.

David loves connecting people around the city. You can find David enjoying time with his partner, young child, and two dogs strolling throughout various walking trails/parks in New England. He also enjoys a good meal and is open to all kinds of food suggestions (and is known to have a few recommendations of his own).

Sanaea Simmons

Sanaea Simmons is a current undergraduate student at the College of the Holy Cross. Sanaea is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in history and a minor in education. As a member of Holy Cross’s Teacher Education Program, Sanaea is studying educational psychology, English language learners, urban schooling, and teaching methodology.

While studying at Holy Cross, Sanaea plays on the Division I varsity women’s volleyball team and is also a member of various clubs including the Black Student Union, Prosper-her, Caribbean African Student Assemblage, and Women of Color Athletes. She serves on three student advisory committees, one for the athletic department and two for academic departments on campus, history and education. She is both a three year Dean’s List and Patriot League Academic Honor Roll honoree.

Additionally, Sanaea volunteers as a fellow for Team Impact, an organization that matches children facing serious illness and disability with college sports teams, creating a long-term, life-changing experience for everyone involved.

Starting in Fall 2023, Sanaea will start her pre-service teaching academic year at South High Community School located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Colleen Terrill

Colleen Terrill is currently the Director of Innovative Learning and Technology for Mendon-Upton Regional School District. She provides ongoing professional development for teachers in her district where she focuses on the importance of balance between technology and curriculum. She is passionate about Ed Tech Advocacy and digital equity. Colleen is a regular presenter at regional and national conferences where she focuses on educational technology and leadership.  She is a member of the MassCUE Board of Directors where she serves as co-chair of the Influence and Advocacy (I & A) Committee. Besides I & A, she is co-chair of the Communications Committee. Colleen also serves as a board member for Massachusetts Educational Administrators Association (METAA).

Kimberly Zajac

Kim Zajac, MA CCC-SLP/A is a certified Speech/Language Pathologist and Audiologist in Massachusetts. She is an affiliated virtual practicum instructor at Emerson College in the Speech@Emerson Graduate Program. Kim holds specialized certification in the area of Neuro-developmental Treatment with Pediatrics.Kim is a MassCUE board member, Co-leader of the Conference Committee, Co-Leader of the MassCUE Inclusive Learning SIG. Kim is a Co-Founder of @EdCampSoutheasternMA. Kim is a Vital Prize Challenge Educator Mentor and an Adobe Creative Educator Leader. She has presented at SXSWEDU, ISTE, MassCUE, Deeper Learning Conference, NELMS Annual Conference, and NYC Schools Tech Summit. She has been a guest on MassCUE Get A CUE Podcast, Stronger Together Podcast as well as the Linked up: Breaking Boundaries In Education Podcast. With over 25 years of experience working with individuals across a variety of settings, Kim specializes in creating programs and sharing learning strategies to support students with diverse learning needs. She is passionate about establishing equitable access and inclusion for ALL students and supports innovative integration of educational technology as a tool in teaching, learning and specialized service delivery.