Kelly Mendoza PhD Email Address

Vice President, Education Programs

Common Sense is dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. We empower parents, teachers, and policymakers by providing unbiased information, trusted advice, and innovative tools to help them harness the power of media and technology as a positive force in all kids' lives. Common Sense MEDIA helps families make smart media choices. We offer the largest, most trusted library of independent age-based and educational ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. Our Parent Concerns and Parent Blog help families understand and navigate the problems and possibilities of raising children in the digital age. Common Sense EDUCATION provides teachers and schools with free research-based classroom tools to help students harness technology for learning and life. Our K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum and interactive games teach students how to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world. And our revolutionary educational rating system, Graphite, helps educators discover, use, and share high-quality digital products that propel student learning. Common Sense KIDS ACTION has a mission to make kids and education our nation's top priority. Kids Action works with policymakers, industry leaders, legislators, and a grassroots community of concerned parents and teachers to promote access to high quality digital learning experiences with well-trained teachers| ensure all kids are able to harness the power of technology, while also keeping their personal information private and protected| advocate for access for all children to high quality early education and early childhood services| and fight to reduce the highest rate of childhood poverty in 40 years.

Supports K-12 educators in creating a culture of digital learning, digital literacy, and digital citizenship in their classrooms, schools, and districts. Helps educators along a professional growth path, cultivating them as learners and leaders. Oversees online community and engagement strategy. Develops learning experiences for educators to harness the potential of technology for learning. -Focus on: edtech, digital learning and teaching, digital literacy, digital citizenship, media literacy -Provides competency-based professional development, advancing teachers' knowledge and skills, including microcredentials and teacher badging -Develops and oversees teacher recognition and certification programs -Designs/writes high-quality and research-based online courses, tutorials, webinars, and e-learning experiences for educators -Produces high quality videos for educator learning (has produced 75+ videos) -Webinar expert: Has produced 100+ webinars -Seasoned K-12 curriculum developer: Has developed media literacy, digital literacy, and digital citizenship curriculum for the Media Education Lab and Common Sense Education -Oversaw the translation of Common Sense Education's Digital Citizenship Curriculum (PDF format) into interactive iBooks Textbooks, with over 5 million downloads, which received the eSchool News Reader's Choice Award (2014) -Creates and facilitates in-person workshops and hands-on learning (Presented at ISTE, ASCD, FETC, CUE, and more) -Oversees professional learning communities and community engagement, supporting educators to learn from each other -Guides schools and districts in building a positive school culture around media and technology -Creates and delivers parent education on guiding kids in a digital age, including resources for Common Sense Education and PBS Frontline