About Us

EdLearning Connections was founded on 40 years of combined experience in program development, professional learning design, and training/ coaching for teachers, mentors, and administrators in support of public and charter systems that have varied from small networks of schools to the seventh largest district in the nation.  The diversity of our backgrounds allows us to bring a layered and cohesive perspective to a variety of audiences, including classroom teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, principals, assistant principals, school leadership teams, and district personnel.  Our commitment is to help systems build sustainable success in their support of teachers and educational leaders.

Barbara Miraglia

Director of Leadership
& Program Development

Barbara is a graduate of Florida Southern College and the University of South Florida, where she earned her Master of Education in Educational Leadership.  Entering the field of education as an alternatively certified secondary teacher, she followed her passion into leadership and administration.  Her educational and administrative experience includes the following roles and accomplishments:

 

    • Secondary teacher, Teacher of the Year
    • Professional learning trainer/designer for instructional and administrative staff
    • New Teacher Mentor
    • Program Administrator, New Teacher Induction (approximately 2000 teachers annually)
    • Program Supervisor, New Teacher Mentors
    • Program Developer and Supervisor, Teacher Leaders
    • Grant Supervisor, Teacher Incentive Fund
    • Supervisor of Teacher Training Department (14,000 instructional personnel)
    • Leadership coach for principals, assistant principals, and school/regional leadership teams

Diamar Roman

Director of Professional Learning
& Design

Diamar is a graduate of Cornell University and has a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. Always intent on becoming an educator, she began her career in the elementary school setting, before launching into professional development and coaching. Her educational and administratove experience includes the following roles and accomplishments:

 

    • Elementary teacher, Teacher of the Year
    • Professional learning trainer/designer for instructional and administrative staff
    • New Teacher Mentor
    • K-8 School Instructional Coach for Literacy
    • District-Based Literacy Coach
    • Adjunct Professor, Bank Street College of Education
    • Program Administrator, New Teacher Induction (approximately 2000 teachers annually)
    • Curriculum and Professional Learning Designer
    • Leadership coach for principals, assistant principals, and school/regional leadership teams

Conference Presentations & Professional Affiliations

    • Learning Forward Annual Conference 
    • Council of the Great City Schools, The Nation’s Voice for Urban Education  
    • International Teacher Leadership Conference, The University of Florida Lastinger Center  
    • New Teacher Center, Symposium  
    • National Center for Teacher Effectiveness, Harvard University  
    • Teachers College, Columbia University Online Educator Series 
    • Instructional Coaching Group Annual Conference
    • Learning Sciences International Annual Conference
    • Learning Forward, Redesign Professional Development Community
    • Learning Forward, Student Success Learning Networks
    • New Teacher Center, Presenter Academy
    • University of Tampa, College of Education Advisory Board
    • Empowering Effective Teachers Advisory Committee with Charlotte Danielson