Gail Lovely

Gail Lovely is an independent educator with over 40 years of experience in education. Gail has a Master's Degree in Educational Computing from Pepperdine University and a California K-12 Life Teaching Credential earned at University of California, Los Angeles. She has 10 years of experience in direct classroom teaching, primarily in inner-city Head Start and elementary classrooms, which was followed by years of experience at school-, district-, county-, and state-level positions in education. Gail has served as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University, University of Houston, and University of Northern Iowa. Gail has had ongoing columns for Scholastic, Classroom Connect, ISTE and others. She is proud of her first book “Using an iPad with Your Preschooler, coauthored with Gayle Berthiaume and is proud to have co-authored the newly published STEM in Early Learning, A Guide to Integrating Technology with Nancye Blair Black and Susan Brooks-Young.

Gail is known for her practical approach to education, her appreciation and admiration for teaching and learning, and her skill at making the complex understandable and the difficult manageable. Gail strives to encourage the wise and playful use of technologies with young learners, with educators and others across the United States and around the world. She has always worked to put the learner at the center of the teaching and learning rather than the technologies, while encouraging the wise use of technologies with young learners through practical experiences, modeling, and in-classroom-coaching.