Sarah Kelley-Luker

Kelley-Luker Consulting | TN | Playful Learning Consultant

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

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My recent work includes:
- Collaborating on the design and production of Nogginville, a free-play digital world for preschool learning and 2024 Webby Awards honoree featuring Nick Jr. characters

- Designing, producing, and writing scripts for 11 Nogginville minigames, shepherding them through pre-production, production, post-production, and launch
- Interviewing preschool kids and their parents to investigate the effects of a popular toy on child development
- Writing, reviewing, and editing scripts for a toy robot
- Writing stories and scripts for fiction and nonfiction SEL videos
- Reviewing kids' media for developmental appropriateness
- Designing, writing, reviewing, and editing standards-aligned science, SEL, math, computer science, digital arts, and ELA curricula and assessments for kids ages 5-18
- Designing, writing, reviewing, and editing parent-led developmental activities for kids ages 0-5
- Creating antiracist professional development content for preschool teachers
- Designing a story-based STEAM camp for preschool learners

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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.