M.I.T. Information Technology, American-Intercontinental University
Ed.S. Teacher Leadership, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Honors and Awards
2023 Most Outstanding Ph.D. Student, University of Alabama, College of Education, Educational Leadership, Policy, & Technology Studies – Instructional Technology
2017 NCWIT Alabama Teacher of the Year
Latest Publications
Garcia, D., Camarena, M., Lin, K., & Westerlund, J. (2023). Equitable Grading Best Practices, SIGCSE 2023: Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education v. 2. Toronto, Canada. pp. 1200–1201. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3569602
Garcia, D, Barnes, T., Lopez, A., Uche, C., & Westerlund, J. (2021). Technology We Can’t Live Without!, Revisited. Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE): https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3408877.3432571
Gray J., Boehm, M., Crawford, C., Baker, J., McCarley, G., Morgan, K., Rouze, K., Westerlund, J., & Yarbrough, C. (2015). A Case Study on Adding Computer Science as a Math Graduation Elective: A Report from the Alabama CS/Mathematics Crosswalk Committee (Abstract Only). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2676723.2691915
Gray, J., Hossain, M., Corley, J., Wagner, A., Lamm, C., Boehm, M., Crawford, C., Haynie, K., Packman, S., Muralidhar, D., Baker, R., Black, R., Falgout, S., Holt, L., Lilly, A., McCarley, G., Morse, J., Rountree, J., Westerlund, J., Yarbrough, C. (2014). A first-year experience report on a model for statewide deployment of CS principles courses (Abstract only). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2538862.2544319
