Educator| 2019 Teacher Of The Year Region Finalist| 2021 Cambridge University Press Dedicated Teacher Award| PD Presenter| 2022 MSA District Teacher Of The Year| Flip Flipsider| Wakelet Ambassador

Dr. Bron Stuckey is a global consultant specialist in gameplay, gamification, communities of practice, and learning communities. Bron has been engaged in the educational community and gameful practices in learning development for the past 16 years. She has worked to explore virtual worlds, games in learning, and how we can cultivate identity, agency, citizenship, leadership, and community. She is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Arizona State University Center for Games & Impact and is a global leader in gamification for community and identity cultivation. She is a global Minecraft mentor, is on the board of several educational game start-ups, and is the creator of the GameChanger Girls Esports Program. She has developed resources and supported educator communities for Microsoft, Departments of Education, commercial clients, and game development companies. Bron’s overriding drive is to understand how games can support learning and cultivate community for learners which is what brought her to research and adopt esports as a game changer for learning. 

As a Digital Learning Coach in Walpole, Massachusetts, Jed Stefanowicz provides job-embedded professional development and instructional coaching for academic technology. Through conferences, workshops, and coaching, Jed aims to engage and build staff/student digital learning capacity, keeping the focus on practice over product. As a 25 year elementary educator, speaker, blogger, and current  Massachusetts Teach Plus Policy Fellow, Jed shares his passion for effective tech integration to transform teaching and learning, creating engaging and equitable digital learning environments and experiences that activate, innovate, and motivate digital learning.  

Aimee Bloom is a Coordinator of Instructional Technologies, working with educators, students, and administrators in Alternative Education, Special Education, and Career and Tech. Aimee brings to us over 16 years of experience in education. Her career began as a PreK-8th grade art and computer teacher.

Laurie Guyon is the Coordinator of Model Schools at Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES.  Her role focuses on professional learning around technology integration for over 31 school districts across five counties.  As well as this, Laurie is the Capital Region Director and a trainer for NYSCATE, The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education.