Dr. Dayna Laur (@daylynn) - How I Became A Successful Educational Consultant

Dr. Dayna Laur is a veteran high school social studies teacher and career academy coordinator. For fourteen years, she taught Advanced Placement U.S. government, U.S. history, global studies, and law and engaged in extensive co-teaching experiences in a special education setting. Dayna holds a B.A. in History from Virginia Tech, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in 21st Century Teaching and Learning from Wilkes University, and an Ed.D. in instructional systems design and technology from Sam Houston State University. She is a two-time National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certified teacher. 

During her teaching tenure, Dayna worked closely with the Classrooms for the Future initiative in Pennsylvania, presenting to teachers, instructional technology coaches, administrators, and higher education faculty members on ways in integrate project-based learning in a technology-rich classroom environment. She frequently keynoted events and served as a model teacher to the 500 school districts in the Commonwealth. She was a featured model teacher for Authentic Based Classroom Instruction as produced by the National Institute for Professional Practice. Edutopia also featured Dayna as a model teacher for Interdisciplinary PBL in their Schools That Work Series. During her high school teaching career, Dayna won numerous awards from national organizations and Pennsylvania.

Upon leaving the brick-and-mortar classroom, Dayna consulted for several leading national organizations including the Buck Institute for Education and Partnership for 21st- Century Skills. In 2014, Dayna, and Dr. Tim Kubik, founded Project ARC to facilitate partnerships between teachers and technical experts in developing a learning ecosystem that engages learners in authentic project learning experiences (APLEs). At Project ARC, Dayna strives to empower educators and their learners by implementing APLEs, a topic she pioneered in her 2013 book, “Authentic Learning Experiences: A Real-World Approach to PBL” and followed up with more detailed PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 versions of the text. You can learn more about Dayna and Project ARC here. 

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