Richard Culatta, Educational Innovator

Richard Culatta is a respected leader in the field of learning innovations. He has worked in k-12, higher education, and corporate training environments as well as private consulting. Culatta regularly presents on educational technology and learning innovations at international conferences such as Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Innovations in eLearning Symposium. He has also published on the subject in journals including Computing in the Schools and Learning and Leading with Technology.

Richard Culatta is currently a Learning Technologies Program Manager with the US Federal Government. His work focuses on leveraging technology solutions to create effective large-scale distributed learning environments.

Before his work in with the government, Culatta was the lead technology consultant for the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University and the Director of Operations for the Rose Education Foundation. He began working with instructional technology at the University of Rhode Island where he co-taught the university’s first technology integration workshops for faculty. Since then he has coached instructors and administrators in technology integration and provided strategic consulting for organizations across the US and Latin America.

Culatta is a certified Spanish teacher and active in promoting bilingual and arts education in the public schools. He is married to the violinist, Shaundra and lives with his family in the Washington metro area.