Mackin Learning honors the brilliance that strong educators, like you, bring to the table and provides motivating frameworks to help you transform how you teach. We listen to your goals and provide guidance in your pursuit to achieve them.
Jennifer McCarty Plucker, Ed.D.
Jen aims to support individuals in personal, team, and professional growth. Jen facilitates virtual and onsite professional learning workshops with teachers in their efforts to
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engage readers, provide choice and voice, and foster critical thinking across the student’s day. Jen’s research and writing has been focused on adolescents’ motivation and engagement in literacy. Prior to joining the team at Mackin, she spent more than 20 years in public education as an English teacher, speech coach, reading specialist, and district administrator.
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Lindsay Simmons, M.A.
Lindsay works to support educators across the country authentically and effectively integrate more STEM and hands-on learning tools into their teaching practices. She brings her experiences as a classroom teacher and a STEM programming
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manager to help schools navigate the world of hands-on learning and maker education. Lindsay works with schools to find the right tools to support their learning goals and provides professional development for new makerspace and/or product implementation. She has her master’s degree in art history with a museum studies certificate.
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Ben Tully, M.A.
Ben leverages his degrees in Communications and Design (B.A.) and Teaching (M.A.) to help schools incorporate meaningful maker opportunities for learners. Additionally, he facilitates professional development sessions,
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empowering educators to confidently navigate and utilize exciting maker tools. Prior to joining Mackin, Ben worked as a collegiate advisor, high school English teacher, and speech coach.
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Amy Lamatina
Amy helps teachers and librarians utilize MackinVIA effectively in their classrooms and school libraries. Through virtual and on-site professional development, she guides educators
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in using the tools within MackinVIA to increase accessibility, support student inquiry and independent reading, and enhance classroom instruction. Amy has a background in special education and STEAM instruction and spent several years working in youth services for a public library system prior to joining the Mackin team.
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Kia Heise, Ph.D.
Kia earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of Minnesota. Before joining Mackin, she taught sociology courses at the college level in Los Angeles and the Twin Cities for several
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years. Kia’s approach is informed by thousands of hours learning how to navigate discussions of social inequality with diverse groups of young people.
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Tess Dwyer
Tess is currently working on her master’s degree in library media and has several years’ experience as an educator, Media Specialist in an elementary school library, and advising in after
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school coding and makerspace programs.
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