Achievements

●      National Science Foundation Grant ($20,000+) for building and executing the G.L.O.B.E. Consortium's Green Technologies class for students from four Boston area high schools. In conjunction with MIT, 2015-2019. Promotional video here.

●      Russell Fellowship Grant (1 teaching unit equivalent), for conducting research and serving as a curriculum and pedagogy consultant for Charlestown High School in the Boston Public School system. Lesley University, Spring-Fall 2015.

●      Lesley University Global Center Faculty Fellowship ($1,800) for forging teaching and research partnerships with Otaru Commerce University in Otaru, Japan. Lesley University. Spring 2015.

●      Harry S. Levitan Prize for Excellence and Leadership in Education ($250), Brandeis University, 2014.

●      Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan Travel Grant ($4,000) for representing the United States at the Global Conference on Education, Sport and Tourism in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. November 2013.

●      Boston Curtis Foundation Grant ($15,000) for building and executing the G.L.O.B.E. Consortium's Global Studies class for students from four Boston area high schools. In conjunction with WorldBoston, 2013.

●      U.S. State Department/International Relations Exchange Board (IREX) Teachers for Global Classrooms Alumni Small Grants ($1,000 ea) for expanding World Literature programming at Concord Carlisle High School. Spring 2011, Fall 2012.

●      Concord Education Fund Grant ($15,000), for creating and teaching an after-school interdisciplinary course on Islam. January 2011.

●      First prize, Diversity/Empowerment (non-professional) Category, Alliance for Community Media Northeast Video Festival. 2010.

●      Concord Parents Association Grant ($2,700) for coordinating the Japan sister-school relationship. 2010.

●      U.S. State Department/Secondary Schools Linkages Program (SSLP) Grant ($10,000 ea) for conducting two bilateral teacher exchanges with school in Turkmenistan. Spring 2010, Fall 2010.

●      U.S. State Department/IREX Teaching Excellence and Achievement Grant ($5,000), for participating in a teacher exchange in Balkanabat, Turkmenistan. Spring 2008.

●      Ruettgers Foundation Grant ($3,000), for designing and teaching after-school semester course at Concord Carlisle High School, "Images of War in Literature and the Media." Spring 2004.

●      Concord Education Fund Grant ($5,000) for creating a World Literature course. Spring 2004.