66 - Dr. Sarah Thomas: Technology Coordinator, Speaker, and Publisher

Teachers on Fire

English - January 20, 2019 23:24 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
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DR. SARAH THOMAS is a regional technology coordinator in Maryland and serves as affiliate faculty at Loyola University. In 2014, Sarah founded the EduMatch Project, and she has spoken and presented at numerous conferences since. Find out more about Sarah and her work at https://www.sarahjanethomas.com and follow her on Twitter at @sarahdateechur.

In our conversation, Sarah recalls the challenges of finding her place in education during the first three years of her career. She describes how EduMatch was created as a solution to help like-minded educators connect around the globe, and explains how that early vision continues to shape its activities and contributions today. She also tells us what makes her so passionate about education, one of her professional goals for 2019, the thing that energizes her as a human being when she’s away from education, and so much more.

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On Twitter at https://twitter.com/sarahdateechur & https://twitter.com/edu_match

On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sarahdateechur/

On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/edumatchers/

On her website at https://www.sarahjanethomas.com/

On EduMatch at http://www.edumatch.org/

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