Trisha Callella, Ed.D.

Education & Experience: Welcome

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

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

Education & Experience: About Me

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 La Verne

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

Education & Experience: Experience