Elena Vasquez

Learning & Development Specialist

Elena Vasquez — Learning & Development Specialist Elena Vasquez . About Classroom → L&D Portfolio Experience Say hello Learning & Development Specialist · Instructional Design Nine years designing learning that sticks. Now bringing it to the workplace. I'm Elena Vasquez, a former high-school science teacher and department lead in Austin. I've designed 32 curricula, taught 1,400 students, and coached 18 teachers. The audience is changing. The craft is the same. Instructional design Articulate 360 Facilitation Learning analytics See my work What transfers Open to L&D roles EV Elena Vasquez Austin, Texas · M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction Learners taught 1,400+ Curricula designed 32 Teachers mentored 18 Learner rating 4.9 / 5 +14 Points gained on unit assessments after my blended redesign 100% Retention in the new-teacher cohort I mentored 6 eLearning modules built in Articulate Rise and Storyline 40+ Professional development sessions facilitated for adults About Why a teacher makes a strong L&D hire Every day for nine years I did the full learning cycle on a loop: figure out what people need to know, design a way to teach it, deliver it to a room that didn't choose to be there, measure whether it worked, and fix it by tomorrow. That is instructional design, facilitation, and evaluation, practised at a pace most corporate teams never see. As science department lead I also ran the adult side: onboarding new teachers, leading professional development, negotiating with administrators