Evon Zundel

Evon Zundel began her career in education in the Bethlehem Area School District as a classroom Spanish teacher twenty years ago. She moved onto become a Technology Integration Specialist and a Project Director of an One to One Laptop Initiative (before it was en vogue, statewide).

She moved on to work for the now defunct non-profit called CAPE (aka the Center for Advancing Partnerships in Education) where she provided in house technical support. She was lured there by a new project called the CAPE Online World Language Institute. The prospect of working with language teachers to reach language learners anywhere they had an Internet connection was exciting to her. She provided technical support to many teachers, students and school districts that participated in the online classes. When the online language school changed homes, so did she. She became the coordinator of the Language Institute at Blended Schools Network. She handled scheduling, enrollment, technical and academic support for students who wished to learn a new language and culture completely online.

In addition, she has co-authored a chapter in Online Teaching and Learning: Sociocultural Perspectives regarding synchronous online teaching strategies to promote learner development.

Having returned to the Bethlehem Area School District in 2013 as a Technology Integration Specialist, she is poised to meet the challenge of bringing innovative teaching strategies and blended/online learning to her district. So far, she has earned the distinction of being a Google Educator, overseen the implementation and professional development for incorporating Chromebooks to high school classrooms and both high school libraries, led countless Google Apps for Education professional development workshops and authored and conducted several online courses to help teachers bring blended learning into their classroom.

Her current interest is student agency in education.