Summary
Phil Taylor is a retired educator turned EdTech consultant with over four decades of classroom and school leadership experience and eight years focused on professional development in educational technology. A Google for Education Certified Trainer and dual-level Google Certified Educator, he designs hands-on workshops that help schools adopt Google Workspace, interactive whiteboards, and blended learning practices. Phil combines deep pedagogical insight from roles as department head and school administrator with practical skills in Wakelet, iorad, Moodle, Adobe Creative Cloud, MS Office and instructional video tools to create tailored PD resources. He has served in leadership at ManACE, running provincial conference registration, budgets and journals, which reflects his blend of technical, administrative and community-building strengths. Based in Winnipeg, he continues to curate and deliver accessible digital learning materials and workflows that emphasize classroom impact rather than just tool familiarity. An early adopter of classroom computing since 1985, he brings long-term perspective on how technology evolves in schools and how to make it pedagogically meaningful.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B. Ed., Secondary Education, B. Ed., Secondary Education at Mount Allison University