While I eat, I skim the local newspaper.ħ A.M.: Hit the road. I scan the news apps on the phone.Ħ:30 A.M.: Power breakfast: two eggs, chopped spinach, New Mexico green chile and a bit of cheese. Much to the annoyance of my husband, I hit snooze twice. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband, Scott Elder, superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools.ĥ:40 A.M.: Alarm clock goes off. ![]() Additionally, she is an adjunct professor for USC Rossier’s Master of Arts in Teaching program. In March, she was named chief academic officer at Los Lunas Schools, where she works to improve student outcomes for the 8,500-plus students in the school district located south of the state capital. will come quick, and the process will begin again.ĭeborah Elder EdD ’20, Chief Academic Officer at Los Lunas SchoolsĪfter beginning her education career as an elementary school teacher, Deborah Elder EdD ’20 transitioned to administrative roles where she provided leadership and teacher development in a range of positions, including as an elementary school principal and executive director in Albuquerque Public Schools’ Office of Innovation and School Choice. Dinner is served around 7 and capped off with a Russian River pinot noir or a pinot grigio.ĩ P.M.: It’s early to bed. Then dinner will be cooked on the grill or in our rustic wood-burning oven-one of my favorite hobbies. During the summer, I’ll wind down with a quick swim in the pool. Taken together, this learner profile creates a more holistic picture of a student: their academic data, their background, daily social-emotional learning information and executive functioning (cognition) strengths.Ħ P.M.: By 6 p.m. I’m working on a project that connects fragmented data across our programs and combines it with nonacademic data that we know affects learning. My work at McGraw is about making the digital workflow of teachers easier. I typically have a salad for lunch after weight training, I’ll also have a smoothie.ġ:15 P.M.: By 1:15 p.m., my afternoons pick back up with meetings. NOON: Three days a week, I get out of the house to lift weights with a trainer. It’s also when I eat breakfast, typically a power bar and a banana. I spend the next several hours jumping between meetings: executive-leadership meetings, direct-report 1:1s, product-roadmap meetings, engineering/technology meetings, data-science meetings. We put bookshelves in our living room so I have a Zoom backdrop that looks like I’m in an office. My makeshift office consists of a card table set up in our living room on Mondays and taken down on Fridays so our weekends appear work-free. ![]() During the past year, we’ve hunkered down at our 145-year-old farmhouse. is the official transition from the couch to my pandemic office. I’ll be showered and ready for my first Zoom meeting within the hour.ĩ A.M.–NOON: 9 a.m. It’s the perfect respite after two hours on the couch and computer. Two days a week, I head out for a run to Georgica Beach. If it’s my turn, I prep lunch and dinner. It might be writing an article, editing a manuscript, developing branding or marketing concepts for a product, or reviewing visual designs to explain a concept about the classroom of the future.Ĩ A.M.: By 8 a.m., I feel a pretty strong sense of accomplishment. I pour a second cup of coffee and weave in and out of creative tasks. We don’t have kids, so it’s a quiet way to start the day.ħ A.M.: I’m a Gayle King fan, so the hour starts with CBS Mornings. health care company, sits at the other end of the couch, same routine. My partner, an executive for a large U.S. Typically, this hour is used to check email, review my calendar and prep for the day. Admittedly, I am a morning person.Ħ A.M.: By 6 a.m., coffee has been brewed, the local news plays quietly in the background and I snuggle onto my couch with my laptop. I’ve never used an alarm clock-that seems like an unnatural way to start the day. He lives in East Hampton, New York, with his partner.ĥ:45 A.M.: I wake up between 5:45 and 6 a.m. Currently, he is the chief innovation officer at McGraw Hill Education. ![]() Shawn Smith EdD ’05 is an author, a former classroom teacher and education administrator, and an expert on digital education. Shawn Smith EdD ’05, Chief Innovation Officer at McGraw Hill Education
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