Rachel Hoke Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Rachel Hoke is an American educational technology specialist, instructional designer, researcher, and faculty development leader based in Wilmington, Delaware. She has built a career spanning K-12 education, higher education, instructional technology, music education, special education, curriculum development, and educational psychology. With more than 15 years of experience in teaching and faculty development, she has become known for her work integrating generative AI, instructional technology, and emerging digital learning strategies into education. Her professional focus includes collaborative approaches to improving teaching, research, productivity, and faculty support through technology-enhanced learning environments.

Hoke currently serves as the Associate Director of Technology & Pedagogy at the University of Pennsylvania, a role she began in September 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the same time, she has continued working as an Instructional Design Associate at the University of South Carolina, a position she has held since June 2020. Prior to these roles, she worked at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia as both Director for Teaching & Learning Design and Adjunct Faculty member from 2021 to 2023. Earlier in her career, she spent years working in K-12 education, including positions as Director of Choral & Instrumental Music at MOT Charter School, Music Teacher for the Red Clay Consolidated School District, Standardized Assessment Developer for the Delaware Department of Education, and Music Teacher in the School District of Philadelphia.

Her academic background is extensive and interdisciplinary. Hoke earned a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Educational Technology from the University of South Carolina in 2022. Her dissertation focused on “The Impact of Content-Specific Virtual Mentoring on Job Satisfaction and Attrition: A Mixed Methods Study of Delaware Arts Teachers.” She is also pursuing a Master of Computer Information Technology degree at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 2024. Earlier, she completed a Master of Science in Educational Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she served as chairperson and student-faculty liaison for graduate psychology students. Her capstone research examined cognitive-behavioral therapy and multi-family therapy as preventative measures for eating disorder development among adolescent girls with perfectionistic personality traits. In addition, she earned a K-12 Music Teaching Certification from Eastern University, studied Music Therapy at Drexel University, and graduated summa cum laude from West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Music Performance.

Beyond her academic and professional roles, Hoke maintains an educational technology portfolio website that showcases her doctoral research, publications, classroom tools, and resources for teachers, instructional technology departments, and teacher training programs. She describes the portfolio as a “living document” focused on strengthening relationships between educators and educational technology. Her research interests include teacher education, technology integration, faculty development, learning experience design, gamification, and DEIA-related faculty education. She has also presented at conferences including OLC Accelerate, where she presented “Virtual Mentoring: An Electric Vehicle for Arts Teacher Equity.”

Hoke possesses technical and educational skills across areas including Java, Python, Pandas, curriculum development, psychology, special education, learning experience design, and music education. She also holds multiple educational certifications, including teaching certifications in K-12 Music and K-12 Special Education, as well as Google Certified Educator Level 1 credentials. In addition to English, she also speaks Spanish.

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