Parent Education
Parent Coffee Events
These in-person sessions served as touchpoints for digital wellness, tech fluency, and community alignment. Held two to three times a year and often co-led with guest experts or EdTech team members, each event was designed around current trends, research, and family feedback. Topics ranged from app safety and parental controls to screen time, YouTube culture, misinformation, and generative AI. Sessions included interactive surveys, small-group activities, and hands-on guidance—bridging school values with family realities.
As Director of Educational Technology, I curated content, facilitated dialogue, and served as the school’s public-facing voice for technology learning. Our partnership with Common Sense Media deepened the experience, offering research, tools, and frameworks that helped families feel more informed and confident. These events not only built digital fluency, but trust—and positioned parents as essential partners in their children’s evolving tech lives.
app catalog: transparency
To ensure transparency and trust, we developed a public-facing app catalog that gave families detailed insight into the platforms and tools used across our K–12 program. This database, updated annually and shared with parents for consent, listed every approved application along with grade-level usage, purpose, privacy links, and more. But it wasn’t just for compliance—it was an invitation for families to understand the care and discernment behind every edtech choice.
Each app was vetted through a rigorous review process using a custom rubric that evaluated factors like accessibility, data privacy, content quality, and instructional alignment. The database also served internally as a reference point for faculty and the EdTech team—making it easy to track approvals, avoid redundancy, and maintain a cohesive digital ecosystem.
Family Resources
To reinforce the digital literacy and wellness work happening in classrooms, I curated a comprehensive library of resources for families—including toolkits, policy guides, and on-demand recordings of our parent education events. Many resources were aligned with topics covered in our parent coffee events and sourced through our partnership with Common Sense Media. These included media use guidelines, platform tutorials, and conversation starters designed to help parents support healthy digital habits at home. Our goal was to build a bridge between home and school—empowering families to engage meaningfully with the tools and values shaping their children’s digital lives.
