TRISHA CALLELLA, ED.D.

ABOUT TRISHA CALLELLA

Director of Global Product Partnerships, Digital Promise

Educational Psychologist (Ed.D.) - Learning Sciences

Learning experience designer - digital, analog, & hybrid

Published author of 54 teacher resource books

Trainer/speaker/presenter/facilitator 

former Director of Innovation and Instruction

former Director of Educational Technology

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Research + Design + Implementation + Iteration + Publications

Focused on making a positive difference in the world.

Passionate learner driven to innovation in education and creative technologies. 

Always searching for like-minded people with a similar vision of what is possible.

Thrives in futurist think tanks at the intersection of learning, technology, and neuroscience.

Interests:

AI and machine learning

AR/VR/MR/XR

creative, exponential technologies

rockets & rocket launches

data science

personalized learning

robotics, 3D printing, laser cutting

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

Apple Distinguished Educator

DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL PRODUCT PARTNERSHIPS

June 2019-present

Work at the intersection of edtech, education, and learning sciences research helping companies design and develop features to support learner variability.

DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION AND INSTRUCTION

September 2016 - July 2019

• Organizational leadership specializing in change and innovation

• Talent and capacity building with district leadership, principals, coaches, and teachers

• Advise on next steps and designs for scalable success

• Designed and ran Escape Rooms

• Design, organize, and lead professional learning conferences

• Created scalable models of integrated STEM implementation and K-12 coding/programming

• Created and aligned frameworks of learning, vision, and purpose driven strategic learning

• Created and leads the Saturday Exploration Academy

• Created and leads Parent STEAM Exploration Nights at schools

• Designs professional development for various stakeholder groups

• Implemented and led the 3 year Future Ready plan

• Proficient in all Apple, Google, and Microsoft suites

CONSULTANT & PTN FACILITATOR - COTSEN FOUNDATION

January 2005 - Present

• Co-created Learning Experience Design webinar series 

• Multimedia producer of Cotsen's Learning Experience Design videos

• Created, designed, and led the 4 day Integrated Learning Institute

• Co-created the Principals Tech Network - 2015 to present

• Created Change Implementation Matrix as a series of specific factors and indicators for qualitative analysis of school innovation readiness

• Facilitator working with principals on technology integration across multiple school districts

• Create, organize, & lead multi-district conferences centered on pedagogy integrating technology Coaching principals in customized best practice for tech implemention across grade levels at various school sites

• Cotsen demonstration teacher 2007-2013; Cotsen mentor 2005-2007

FACULTY, TEACHERS COLLEGE - WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY

June 2018 - Present

• Research evaluator for Capstones, final research studies, and all courses in the Masters in Education program of the Teacher's College

• Expertise in evaluative feedback, personalized learning, online learning, and competency based education

• Proficient in multiple online learning management platforms including Microsoft

VICE PRESIDENT, CURRICULUM - CODE TO THE FUTURE

May 2016 - December 2016

• Led special projects nationwide and remotely

• Designed and wrote integrated computer science and robotics curriculum for coding/programming immersion schools across the country

• Trained school districts in the League of Innovative Schools in computer science in grades K-8

• Co-facilitated strategic meetings with Superintendents within the League of Innovative Schools across the United States

DIRECTOR, LEARNING DESIGNER, & INSTRUCTOR - ESTAD

October 2015 - May 2016

• Learned the business and legal side of start-ups

• Led strategic meetings with venture capitalists and interested parties

• Designed and created cross curricular coding, programming, robotics, stock market, and entrepreneurship series of classes

• Designed then personalized each module to each group of students

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY - LOS ALAMITOS USD

March 2014 - June 2016

• Designed and helped build the first STEM + NGSS focused Makerspaces in schools

• Led educational technology integration across all schools K-12

• Modeled, trained, coached, and designed integrated STEM curriculum

• Created the scope and sequence for tech tool implementation across K-12

LEARNING EXPERIENCE DESIGNER

January 2012 - Present

• Designed Escape Rooms for the Cotsen Foundation and RUSD

• Created and led EdCamp Long Beach at the Aquarium of the Pacific

• Created and led EdCamp Los Alamitos 

• Created and led conferences across Southern California

AUTHOR - CREATIVE TEACHING PRESS

June 1994 - August 2012

• Published author - 46 teacher resource books and 6 emergent readers

• Researched, designed, wrote, and edited original content

• Editor and manuscript evaluator

COURSE INSTRUCTOR - UNIVERSITY OF LAVERNE

January 2002 - December 2005

• Designed and taught 5 different upper division Master's level courses for the Master's in Reading program

• EDUC 515 - The Reading Process: Theory and Application
  EDUC 514 - Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Basing Instruction on Diagnosis EDUC 514 Lab - Applied Diagnostic Instruction in Reading
  EDUC 510 - Advanced Reading Methodology
  EDUC 417 - Children's Literature

• Customized coursework to students

• Led the Reading Lab which involved Master's students implementing what was learned in coursework with students at school sites

 Certificate Program 2020

• Effective Online Course Design

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Doctorate - March 2015

USC

• Concentration: Educational Psychology- Learning Sciences/Cognitive Sciences

• Dissertation: STEM + Design Thinking Implementation

Masters - January 2002

UNIVERSITY OF LAVERNE

• Master of Arts in Education

• Concentration: Literacy Development

CONFERENCE SPEAKER
&  LEARNING DESIGNER