Abbe Waldron of Empowered Learning and Technology focuses on inclusive practices and intentional technology implementation. Abbe helps schools and districts use the tools they already have to support learner variability, lead productive staff conversations about diverse learners, and scale AI use with teachers in purposeful ways.

Abbe is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Inclusive practices, intentional technology implementation, inclusive technology resources

Talk with me about:
• Using technology you already have to support learner variability
• Engaging staff in productive conversations about meeting diverse learner needs through high-impact practices
• Scaling AI use with teachers in your school or district in a purposeful way

Aimee McAlpine is an educational leader who builds the systems, structures, and supports educators need to excel in modern learning environments. Her career includes roles as a classroom teacher, technology integration specialist, Coordinator of Digital Learning, instructional designer, and Director of Professional and Online Learning. She blends research-based instructional and leadership practices with emerging technologies to help educators and leaders grow their practice.

Aimee is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Curriculum and instruction, professional learning, instructional design, digital learning leadership, AI literacy

Talk with me about:
• AI literacy for students, teachers, and leaders
• Professional learning and curriculum design
• Meaningful technology integration

Dr. Amy Pleet-Odle, Inclusion Catalyst, founded Joyful Inclusion after more than five decades as a teacher, transition coordinator, state specialist, and professor. Her Joyful Inclusion Hope Framework guides special education systems change, helping every stakeholder overcome internal and systemic barriers so that all students succeed. She shares her work through keynotes, workshops, books, and her Substack blog and podcast.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Inclusive special education, special education systems change, secondary transition, bridging special and general education

Talk with me about:
Considerations for rolling out technology with inclusive populations
Bridging the divide between special and general education
Keeping your great teachers great

Brett Pierce is founder and Executive Director of Meridian Stories, a digital storytelling nonprofit that challenges middle and high schoolers to create narratives around core curricular goals. A former English teacher and Colby College instructor, he spent much of his career at Sesame Workshop as a Co-Executive Producer on media projects for youth around the world. He is the author of Expanding Literacy: Bringing Digital Storytelling into Your Classroom (Heinemann).

He is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference
Areas of expertise: Digital storytelling, digital and media literacy, media for social impact, integrating AI into digital literacy

Talk with me about:
Increasing student engagement in research and writing
What digital storytelling is and how to make it a normal part of the classroom
A model for incorporating AI safely into digital literacy

Carol Stefany Rodriguez Jimenez is a Biology and Scientific Research teacher in Springfield, MA, passionate about helping students see themselves as scientists, creators, and problem-solvers. She leads student research and science fair initiatives and finds practical ways to use technology and AI to make research, feedback, and scientific thinking more accessible to students.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: AI-supported research coaching, science fair program development, inquiry-based STEM instruction, MSEF readiness, supporting first-time and multilingual student researchers

Talk with me about:
• Using AI as a research coach to help students turn curiosity into testable science fair questions without replacing their thinking
• Making science fair manageable for busy teachers with station-based routines, templates, and AI feedback
• Supporting first-time and underrepresented student researchers with scaffolds from question to presentation

Chenyang Xu is a PhD candidate in the College of Education at UMass Amherst, researching educational technology, generative AI, and AI literacy. He has contributed to the NSF-funded CSforALL project and co-edited two award-winning open educational resources on K-12 social studies and media literacy with more than 1.14 million views. He has presented at AERA, ISTE, SITE, and MassCUE and serves on the editorial review boards of Digital Learning in Teacher Education and AI Enhanced Learning.

Chenyang is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Generative AI, AI literacy, equitable computer science education, AI in teaching and assessment

Talk with me about:
Evaluating whether AI chatbots support real learning or create an "illusion of learning"
Using Study and Learn modes in tools like Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity
Prompting strategies that help AI scaffold student thinking instead of giving answers

Christina Golgozeanu is an Educational Consultant at LEARN in Connecticut, where she helps educators and district leaders build practical, sustainable systems that support multilingual learners and the people who serve them. Her work focuses on multilingual learner programming, instructional coaching, AI integration, and tools that turn complex data into meaningful action. She developed LILA by LEARN and takes a human-centered approach to making educators' work more manageable with AI.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Multilingual learner programming, instructional coaching, AI integration, data-to-action tools

Talk with me about:
Ed tech for diverse learners
The intersection of authentic intelligence and artificial intelligence
Transformative emotional intelligence for educators

Craig Sheil is a digital learning specialist at Bedford High School who helps educators make thoughtful technology decisions and implementations. He is a Canvassador for Canva Education and works extensively with Google for Education. His current focus includes AI implementation at the high school and district level and professional development for educators.

He is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: AI in education, Canva Education, Google Workspace for Education, professional development in technology

Talk with me about:
AI implementation in a high school and across a district
Getting the most from Canva Education and Google Workspace for Education
Professional development for educators in technology

Dr. Anne Katona-Linn, Ed.D., BCBA, is an educational psychologist, bestselling author, and speaker with more than 25 years of experience helping schools build safe, supportive environments. She equips educators and leaders with practical, trauma-informed strategies to prevent and respond to sexual violence, strengthen school culture, and build effective systems of support. Through her Building Resilient Classrooms program, she helps teams use tools, routines, and data so students and staff can thrive.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Trauma-sensitive schools, student wellness, social-emotional learning, positive behavior supports, restorative practices, special education, staff coaching

Talk with me about:
Shifting from crisis response to proactive support
Using edtech to support student wellness and classroom calm
Supporting staff so they can support students

Ela Ben-Ur helps people and groups make positive change. Her work, Innovators' Compass, distills practices from engineering to leadership into a set of accessible questions used in schools, companies, and communities worldwide to navigate big and small challenges. An MIT and IDEO design thinker, she has led workshops at SXSW and NSTA and teaches product and life design at Olin College.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Design thinking, AI ethics facilitation, intergenerational workshops, community-based learning design

Talk with me about:
Running intergenerational AI workshops in your school or district
Simple ways to unleash creative practices like design thinking
Increasing student voice, agency, and activism

Erika Sandstrom, known as "Green Screen Gal," is a Digital Learning Coach and Digital Media Teacher with more than 30 years in education. She specializes in video production, green screen, Canva, Adobe Express, AI integration, and mindful media strategies that amplify student voice. A Canvassador, Adobe Educator, and co-host of the Green Screen Summit, she has presented at SXSW EDU, ISTELive, and FETC and was named a Top 30 IT Influencer by EdTech K12 Magazine.

She is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Video production and green screen, Canva and Adobe Express, AI integration, visual storytelling, mindfulness and SEL

Talk with me about:
Creative video projects that amplify student voice and engagement
Using Canva AI, Adobe Express, and WeVideo in meaningful classroom ways
Mindful media strategies and mindfulness in schools

Dr. Gary Stager is a teacher educator, author, consultant, publisher, and keynote speaker who has taught learners from preschool through doctoral studies. In 1990 he led professional development in the world's first laptop schools, and he later collaborated with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Lab and on One Laptop Per Child. He founded the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute in 2008 and co-authored Invent To Learn, widely called the "bible of the maker movement in schools."

He is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Constructionism, learning by making, project-based learning, 1:1 computing, computer science for all, the Reggio Emilia approach, the history of AI and learning

Talk with me about:
Project-based learning and learning by making
Computational making and learning with AI
1:1 computing and school reform