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Loretta is Part-time Assistant Professor, Parsons' MFADT (Design & Technology) Program (2002-current). She holds an MFADT degree (Parsons, 2002), a Master’s Degree (MAT) in English Literature, and a California Standard Secondary School Teacher’s Credential. In 2002, Loretta helped design the writing and research curriculum strand for the MFADT Thesis. Currently, she co-teaches thesis studio. She has developed a web site resource (SylvesterKnows) to support DT thesis students’ design process. Loretta was a founding member of the small NYC public school, Quest to Learn (Q2L) - serving on its curriculum design team from 2006-2012. She is co-author of the book, Quest to Learn: Developing the School for Digital Kids (2011: The MIT Press). Prior to returning to school as a student at Parsons in 2000, she was Senior Sponsoring Editor for K-12 Teacher Education texts at Houghton Mifflin Publishers (Boston) for 25+ years. She also attended courses at the Boston Architectural College (BAC). Her projects and publications include: Video: In Classrooms (HM); On a Full Moon: Integrating Story and Literacy Skills; StoryKaleidoscope: Character Point-of-View; Quest to Learn School Assessment Rubrics; Look Duck Feet: Kinderboard on Kindertable Goes to School (TIES Magazine, 2002; Literacy Inventory Protocol: Pedagogical Tool for Iterative Prototype Design - a paper presented at the 2005 IDC conference. For the ACM 2020 IDC (Interactive Design and Children Conference), a position paper was accepted for her participation in its conference workshop on  "Teaching the Next Generation of Child Interaction Researchers and Designers." She is co-editor of Entropy Reader: A  Publication of Parsons Design & Technology BFA/MFA 2023 Thesis Show. 

B.A. English Literature (The Modern Novel) 

MAT Secondary Standard Teachers Credential (English/History)

MFADT Parsons 2002 (Thesis: On a Full Moon: Integrating Story and Literacy Skills )

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