Articulate 360 License Holder | Instructional Designer | AI Integration & User Experience Design
Leadership & Legacy
Purpose-driven storytelling to inform, encourage and create generational impact.
Committees that set state standards. Programs started from nothing. Teams led at scale. A basketball career that still shows up in the record books.
Committees and Standards
State and national assessment work, from certification exams to scoring teams.
- Texas Education Agency (TEA) and Pearson Mathematics (7-12) Committee for the Texas Educator Certification Examination Program
- TEA Mathematics (7-12) Standard Setting Committee
- TEA Master Mathematics Teacher Scoring Team
- TEA item review committees for mathematics diagnostics and geometry end of course
- Texas Performance Standards Project Statewide Scoring Committee
- TEA data analysis committees for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), 10th grade and exit level
- Texas Mathematics Advisory/Editor Board, McGraw Hill/Glencoe
- Ascend Learning, subject matter expert and assessment reviewer
Standards Still in Effect. Constructed and revised standards for the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS), and the majority of the recommendations were adopted into the standards now in effect.
Program and Project Management
- FOCUS (Faith, Obedience, Commitment, Unity, Sacrifice), Co-FounderA community learning program that served more than 150 learners and reached a 93% completion rate. Created the curriculum, owned staffing, budgets, and multiyear planning, and trained more than 30 Dow Chemical engineers and Plant Processors as mentors.
- Center for Urban Teaching, MilwaukeeSummer School Principal and Instructional Coach in a turnaround initiative across 19 of the city’s lowest-performing schools. Led a campus team of 8 to 11 and contributed to leadership training for roughly 300 instructors each summer. Learners at the site gained 11% in math and 13% in reading.
- Texas College BridgeLed site implementation to a 78% first-year completion rate, trained instructors at other sites, and presented the process statewide to administrators, program directors, and compliance and funding directors.
- Dove Learning & Communication, FounderInstructional design, facilitation, and curriculum design for organizations, run as an independent business.
- R³ Signal SystemA visibility and signaling system for job seekers. Cohort 1 participants reached a 45% hiring rate.
- Pregnancy Education and Parenting (PEP) Program, CoordinatorA grant-funded program for school-age parents. Counseled students, secured childcare, built an individual plan for each student, and taught parenting skills to students and their families.
Work that Empowered Others
Antoinette presented the Devlin.ai simulation session and authored both its 21-page participant playbook and its 38-page facilitator guide. Those who participated left with working simulators for their client or team.
Fellow instructional designers learned ChatGPT-assisted coding for Open edX course components through coaching. The new process reduced course production time by 25%, and the team finished one week ahead of schedule.
Basketball
Got Game? Will Travel.
A quiet kid recruited from Wichita, Kansas, I did my talking on the glass.
Center for the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks as Antoinette “Annie” Norris, then professional basketball across Europe, South America, and the Middle East.
- 2,062career points, second in school history
- 1,360career rebounds, second in school history
- No. 42in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rebounding, overall
- 27rebounds in one game, a school record
- 9countries played in professionally, on three continents
Honors
- Southland Conference Player of the Year, the first Ladyjack to win it
- Southland Conference first team
- Southland Conference 1980s All-Decade Team
- Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) Athletics Hall of Fame
- Basketball scholarship, SFA
- Miss SFA, First Runner-up
- Student Service Award
Professional Career
- Europe. Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, and Austria. In Spain, Microbank won the Liga Catalana final 74 to 63 over Caixa Tarragona, and Annie Norris scored 14 and was named among the standouts in Nuevo Basket.
- South America. Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil.
- Middle East. Israel.
Sharing Expertise
- 16U boys basketball coach for a non-profit youth development organization, and trainer of male and female players from youth through college
- Junior and senior high coach in basketball and softball
Catalan League: Microbank, Champion
The final of the women’s Catalan League was played in Sant Fruitós de Bages between Microbank of El Masnou and Caixa Tarragona. In the preliminary round, both teams had no trouble getting past Manresa and earning their place in the final.
The final was dominated at every moment by Microbank, who were always 6 to 10 points ahead on the scoreboard. Caixa Tarragona had its best players in Royster and Llop. The American battled under the boards and knew how to take advantage of her jumping ability. Roser Llop was the machine gun (10/12) in charge of hammering the opposing basket. But that was not enough to keep Anna Junyer from emerging as the star of the game and handing the win to her new team. She alone was able to tear apart the opposing defense. She scored almost half of Microbank’s points, and in the second half alone she put in 28. Alongside her, Annie Norris and Lluïsa Bisetti also stood out.
María Planas chalked up the first title of the season against Sílvia Font, her former pupil from her time at Comansi. The Catalan League once again met its goal and served as a warm-up for the three Catalan teams in the top division.
Microbank: 74 points. Scorers: Castillo (6), Zapata (5), Pont (3), Junyer (34), Solana (1), Bisetti (8), Long (3) and Norris (14).
Caixa Tarragona: 63 points. Scorers: Royster (16), Clarà (4), Bilbao (6), Vila (5), Reixach (1), Asforis (8) and Llop (23).
Referees: Pizarro and Martín Beltrán.
Recognition and Service
Recognition
- Outstanding Houston Area Teacher
- ASSETS Academy (now RISE Academy) Teacher of the Year
- Ministries Universal Educator Good Heart Award
- Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Breast Cancer Survivor Honoree
Service
- Sunday School teacher, New Hope Church
- Praise team, college ministry, and education ministry, The Promise Church
- Sister’s In-Service Ministries
- Secured a donation of 175 cloth masks for campus staff and students during Covid
- Presenter and volunteer, Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT)