Sarah Kelley-Luker

Kelley-Luker Consulting | TN | Playful Learning Consultant

I design, research, write, and produce engaging and culturally-responsive learning content for kids' media, toy, and publishing companies. Clients include Noggin, Tiny Souls Media, Common Sense Networks, Nurture, Miko, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, among others.

 

My recent work includes:

- Weaving together child development research, game design, animation, and story to create immersive, joyful, and inclusive preschool and elementary learning media featuring internationally-beloved IP

- Designing, producing, and writing scripts for digital toys and games

- Reviewing and editing linear and interactive scripts for developmental appropriateness, learning value, fun, and production scope

- Producing a hybrid linear/interactive learning experience for preschool and elementary learning

- Interviewing preschool kids and their caregivers to investigate the effects of various toys and media on child development

- Designing, writing, reviewing, and editing standards-aligned science, SEL, social studies, history, math, computer science, digital arts, and ELA curricula and assessments for kids ages 0-18

- Designing, writing, reviewing, and editing caregiver education content

- Designing playful learning experiences for camps, clubs, and zoos

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Vanderbilt University | TN | Research Assistant

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Supported research projects investigating how digital gameplay and handicraft might encourage authentic scientific and mathematical reasoning | Project games include Atlantis Remixed: Boone’s Meadow and SURGE Symbolic

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The Walt Disney Company | FL

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Education Specialist | 2016 - 2017

Designed interdisciplinary curricula and educational events for Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disneynature, and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts | Currently published collaborations include the Moana Educator’s Guide and Activity Packet and the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Activity Packet

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Educator | 2013 - 2016

I taught science and conservation programs to guests of diverse backgrounds and ages at the Walt Disney World Resort.