Tim Needles

Experience

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  Smithtown Central School District

  Sept 1999 - now

  Art teacher/Technology integration specialist

  Teaching art and digital media at the high school level and training and supporting teachers and administration as the secondary technology integration specialist.

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  ISTE

  Mar 2020 - now

  Author of STEAM Power

  Author, conference and webinar presentations, community leader, and conference and playground planning.

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  Five Towns College

  Dec 2021 - Dec 2024

  Professor

  Teaching advanced film editing and emerging media in the film and mass communications departments

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  National Art Education Association (NAEA)

  Mar 2022 - now

  Teacher Leader of the Connected Arts Network PLC

  Currently leading a national arts PLC centered in Creativity, SEL, and EDI as part of a five-year grant initiative to create nationwide virtual Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) with educators in visual arts, music, theater, dance and media arts in partnership with the Educational Theater Association, the National Association for Music Education, the National Dance Education Organization, and the NYC Dept. of Education’s Arts Office. Former chair of the AMT interest group and the at-large member of the National Art Hono Society. Show less

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  NYSCATE

  Jul 2022 - now

  Long Island Director

  Board member and Director of Long Island

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  New York State Art Teachers Association

  Jul 2023 - now

  Co-chair of Curriculum Committee

  Board member and co-chair of curriculum committee working with New York State.