Virginia Glatzer offers experience as a district administrator, leader in statewide secondary education initiatives, instructional technology coach, elementary classroom teacher, and as an adult learning professional.
Virginia is the Assistant Director of Instructional Technology in the Radnor Township School District. For over 20 years, she worked with districts across Pennsylvania as an instructional technology consultant. She has mentored regional instructional coach mentors as the Regional Mentor Coordinator for the PA Institute for Instructional Coaching. As a PDE Mentor for Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future, Virginia mentored instructional technology coaches across the Commonwealth as they realized the promise of technology.
She facilitates a learning community for future principals
through the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit.
Virginia has mentored education leaders on how to move
from thinking about classrooms for the future to creating classrooms for today.
Through mentoring, coaching, custom presentations, workshops, and job-embedded
professional development, she has helped education leaders and teachers realize how
collaboration, creativity and differentiated instruction can be effectively used
for teaching and learning.
As a mentor, Virginia’s focus is on 21st Century teaching and learning through the use of technology, with an emphasis on making connections to literacy strategies. During her school visits, she emphasizes using technology to differentiate instruction, encouraged the link between content and authentic experience, and celebrated learning through collaboration and creativity. Virginia mentors coaches on how to move from School 1.0 to School 2.0.
Her experience includes:
- Regional Mentor Coordinator for the PA Institute for Instructional Coaching
- Jewish Learning Venture, Consultant, Educational Leadership
- Learning Community Facilitator for the CLIU School Leadership Program for Principal Certification
- Instructional Technology Coach Consultant, Radnor Township School District, West Chester Area School District 1:1 program
- Penn Literacy Network Facilitator
- Adjunct Instructor, Gratz College Educational Technology Program
- Mentor for the PA Department of Education's Classrooms for the Future
- Mentor for the PA Association for Educational Communications and Technology
- Microsoft Innovative Educator Master Trainer and Expert
- Windows in the Classroom Advisor
- Apple Professional Development Consultant
- Collaborative Coaching Board for the PA Department of Education
- LoTi Certified Mentor
- Teacher - Kindergarten, Third, and Fourth grades
- AVP, Instructional Designer at Merrill Lynch
Professional Learning Opportunities
facilitated by Virginia include:
- Mentoring of administrators on learning and leading in a digital world
- Onsite coaching in a 1:1 environment with both G-Suite and Office 365
- Webinar series on a variety of instructional technology topics
- Literacy-focused instructional technology workshops
- Custom workshops on instructional technology topics
Virginia was interviewed by CaseNex for some case studies on PA schools. Although the following case studies are a bit old, they give you an idea of where Virginia's journey began.
Here's Virginia
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