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2026 Curriculum Vitae

Miguel Guhlin

San Antonio, Texas mguhlin.org • LinkedIn

Education Technology Leadership • Gen AI • Digital Curriculum • Professional Learning • Educational Product Development

Updated September 2026

Education technology leader, curriculum and professional learning designer, writer, and educational software developer with more than 30 years of experience across K–12, higher education, and nonprofit education organizations.

My work spans instructional technology, Generative AI, digital curriculum and open educational resources, online learning, educational product development, data privacy, technology operations, and large-scale professional development.

My work focuses on a practical question: How can educators use technology, including Gen AI, in ways that improve teaching, learning, and professional practice without losing sight of privacy, evidence, accessibility, or human judgment?

Professional Appointments

  • Director of Professional Development, Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) 2016–Present
  • Director of Technology Operations, East Central ISD 2012–2016
  • Director, Instructional Technology and Learning Services, San Antonio ISD 2002–2012
  • Project Director, PAVE, Northside ISD/Houston Baptist University 2001–2002
  • Campus and District Technology Roles 1994–2000

Professional Profile

At TCEA, I lead and contribute to professional development, online course development, conference programming, TechNotes publishing, Gen AI training, data privacy guidance, curriculum development, and digital product development.

Recent work includes development of TCEA Pocket Gopher LMS, DrawSplat.org, Sapiqo LMS,* and the mglearn.github.io collection of free classroom learning resources, and a growing portfolio of browser-based educational tools.

Curriculum projects include history and social studies investigations, Problem-Based Learning experiences, critical-thinking breakouts, science investigations, multilingual resources, printables, formative assessment tools, and professional learning materials.

I also develop educator-facing frameworks including ACE, VIBES, PROTECT, SHINE, and the Five Phases of District AI Adoption.

Much of this work follows the same pattern: identify a practical problem, turn the idea into something usable, test it, revise it, and publish a resource educators can adapt.

Educational Product and Software Development

Sapiqo LMS

  • Developer of Sapiqo LMS, a vibe-coded learning management system designed for practical, standards-aligned professional learning for K–16 educators
  • Designed the platform around course enrollment, progress tracking, digital badges, certificates, and educator-focused learning experiences
  • Developed Sapiqo as an alternative model for organizations seeking greater control over professional learning systems and reduced dependence on recurring commercial LMS costs
  • Use Gen AI coding assistants as development partners while retaining human direction, testing, review, debugging, and decision-making
  • Apply iterative development, usability review, privacy considerations, accessibility checks, and continuous revision throughout platform development

DrawSplat

  • Developed and publicly shared DrawSplat, a free browser-based interactive whiteboard and classroom tool collection for K–16 educators
  • Designed DrawSplat to support visual thinking, classroom interaction, formative assessment, collaboration, concept mapping, instructional activities, and teacher-created learning experiences
  • Developed features including multiple workspaces, sticky notes, shapes, text, image support, connectors, teacher and student layers, templates, answer keys, room-based activities, and export options
  • Created specialized tools for concept mapping, writing, presentation, collaboration, audio, graphic organization, and classroom interaction
  • Designed many DrawSplat components for static hosting and school-controlled infrastructure

Educational Web Tools

Created and published browser-based tools including:

  • ShareSpace
  • WonderWall
  • StickyBoard
  • WebDeck Builder
  • GraphSplat
  • PlotPoint
  • SketchSpace VR
  • Concept mapping tools
  • Charting and graphing tools
  • Rubric and evaluation tools
  • Markdown utilities
  • Classroom games and breakout tools
  • Printable and worksheet generators
  • Interactive professional learning resources

Many of these tools are designed as self-contained HTML, CSS, and JavaScript applications that can operate without student accounts, commercial subscriptions, or complex infrastructure.

Open Educational Resources and Digital Curriculum Development

Develop and publish free classroom and professional learning resources throughmglearn.github.io, a growing collection of educator-facing materials spanning curriculum, instructional strategies, digital tools, printables, professional learning, and interactive experiences.

The collection emphasizes resources educators can use, modify, or adapt without requiring expensive subscriptions or extensive technical infrastructure.

History and Social Studies

A substantial portion of the collection focuses on history, social studies, civic reasoning, source analysis, chronology, historical perspective, and evidence-based thinking.

Selected work includes:

  • Problem-Solving Teaching (PST): Historical and civic Problem-Based Learning experiences that place students in situations requiring evidence, analysis, decision-making, and explanation
  • Texas History Investigations: Activities addressing Texas history through problems, historical evidence, competing perspectives, and student reasoning
  • United States History Activities: Resources focused on major events, movements, decisions, documents, and historical turning points
  • World History and World Cultures Resources: Activities connecting geography, culture, economics, historical context, and human decision-making
  • History Event Maps: Graphic organizers that help students examine chronology, causes and effects, people, places, turning points, evidence, and consequences
  • Relic Rooms: Historical investigation experiences in which students identify, interpret, and connect artifacts and source material
  • Primary-Source Investigations: Structured activities that ask students to examine what a source shows, consider perspective and context, identify what is missing, and seek additional evidence
  • Critical Thinking Online Breakouts: Browser-based history and social studies experiences requiring close reading, evidence use, sequencing, classification, and problem solving
  • Contraband: Literature, history, banned-book, censorship, and cultural inquiry resources connecting texts with broader historical and civic questions
  • Entry and Exit Activities: Quick social studies learning checks designed for classroom use before, during, or after instruction

Critical Thinking Online Breakouts

Developed Critical Thinking Online Breakouts (CTOBs) that combine curriculum content with evidence-based reasoning and puzzle-solving.

Collections include activities for:

  • Social studies and history
  • Science
  • Digital citizenship
  • Literature and reading
  • Seasonal and cultural topics
  • Primary-source interpretation
  • Entry and exit learning checks

Activities are designed so students derive answers from provided evidence rather than guess.

Science and STEM Resources

  • Science Detectives: Investigation activities combining phenomena, observations, evidence, Claim-Evidence-Reasoning, and ACE reflection
  • Science CTOBs for elementary and middle grades
  • TEKS-aligned science activities
  • Science word-part and vocabulary resources
  • Concept maps and visual learning activities
  • Student investigation packets
  • Interactive science learning experiences
  • SST-oriented science learning resources

Literacy and ELA Resources

  • Literature Circles resources
  • PlotPoint literature learning activities
  • Reading and writing organizers
  • Reciprocal teaching resources
  • Jigsaw learning materials
  • Vocabulary and word-learning tools
  • Idioms and sayings activities for multilingual learners
  • Source analysis and evidence-based response tools

Mathematics Resources

  • Graphing and visualization tools
  • Student-friendly data and chart activities
  • Mathematics printables and organizers
  • Supplemental-aid resources
  • Interactive tools for representing mathematical ideas
  • Classroom resources connecting reasoning, representation, and explanation

Multilingual and Accessibility Resources

  • Language Bridge resources for bilingual and ESL educators
  • English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Chinese, and other multilingual versions of selected activities
  • Multilingual classroom printables and student supports
  • Activities designed to support English learners while maintaining academic thinking demands
  • Accessible browser-based tools designed to work across devices

Teacher Printables and Classroom Resources

Developed reusable teacher and student resources including:

  • Substitute packets
  • Literature Circles materials
  • Student reflection forms
  • Entry and exit tickets
  • Graphic organizers
  • Getting-to-Know-You activities
  • Classroom reference cards
  • Teacher planning resources
  • Student investigation packets
  • Printable instructional supports

Digital Curriculum Design Principles

Across the mglearn.github.io collection:

  • Begin with learning goals and student evidence
  • Connect resources to appropriate standards and instructional needs
  • Make student thinking visible
  • Use ACE and SOLO Taxonomy where appropriate
  • Incorporate evidence-informed instructional strategies
  • Build for classroom use rather than technology novelty
  • Support multilingual learners and accessibility
  • Minimize unnecessary data collection
  • Prefer resources that work directly in the browser
  • Provide teacher guidance and answer keys when appropriate
  • Design resources educators can adapt rather than merely consume

Generative AI and Workflow Design

AI Assistants and Agents

  • Developed more than** 80 AI agents and assistants**using Custom GPTs, Claude Projects, Gemini Gems, Perplexity Spaces, BoodleBox bots, and related environments
  • Created curriculum assistants, rubric tools, governance supports, research helpers, knowledge-management tools, course-development assistants, and professional learning agents
  • Designed specialized assistants for teachers, instructional coaches, librarians, administrators, technology leaders, and professional development staff

AI-Supported Workflows

Designed Gen AI workflows for:

  • Research
  • Curriculum development
  • Professional learning
  • Instructional planning
  • Content creation
  • Standards tagging
  • Knowledge management
  • Tool evaluation
  • Rubric development
  • Course design
  • Educational software development
  • Organizational planning

Developed professional learning experiences that help educators move from casual chatbot use toward structured, task-specific, responsible Gen AI practice.

Local and Privacy-Aware AI

  • Explored local AI environments using tools such as Ollama
  • Developed workflows using locally hosted and open-source language models
  • Explored browser front ends, authentication approaches, API brokerage, and organization-controlled Gen AI access
  • Promote data minimization, human oversight, privacy review, and appropriate verification of Gen AI output

Vibe-Coding and AI-Assisted Development

Use Gen AI coding assistants, including ChatGPT Codex, Claude Code, and related tools, to prototype, test, revise, document, and publish educational software.

Work includes:

  • Translating educator needs into application requirements
  • Prototyping self-contained browser tools
  • Reviewing and debugging generated code
  • Building classroom-ready user interfaces
  • Testing accessibility and mobile behavior
  • Reviewing privacy and data handling
  • Maintaining Git-based project workflows
  • Publishing through static hosting and school-controlled environments

VIBES Framework

Developed the VIBES Framework to guide AI-assisted creation:

  1. Vision: Define what needs to be built and why
  2. Instruct: Describe requirements and constraints
  3. Build: Create a working version
  4. Evaluate: Test functionality, usability, accuracy, privacy, and accessibility
  5. Ship: Publish a usable product and continue improving it

Instructional and AI Framework Development

ACE: Articulate, Connect, Extend

Developed ACE as a simple instructional routine for making student thinking visible, particularly in environments where Gen AI may have contributed to a finished artifact.

  • Articulate: Explain an idea in your own words
  • Connect: Show how it fits with what you already know and explain why
  • Extend: Apply the idea somewhere new

ACE connects student responses to SOLO Taxonomy and the progression from Surface to Deep to Transfer Learning. It gives teachers a quick way to examine what a student understands rather than judge learning from the polish of an essay, presentation, infographic, or other product.

Five Phases of District AI Adoption

Developed a practical organizational model for moving from early Gen AI awareness toward sustainable use across schools and districts.

The model supports examination of:

  • Leadership
  • Governance
  • Staff capacity
  • Classroom integration
  • Infrastructure
  • Privacy
  • Professional learning
  • Evaluation
  • Organizational maturity

PROTECT Rubric

Developed a privacy and safety review process for evaluating Gen AI and educational technology.

Areas include:

  • Parental rights and access
  • Retention and deletion
  • Opt-out options
  • Transparency
  • Encryption and security
  • Consent and age restrictions
  • Third-party management

SHINE Framework

Developed an evaluation framework for examining Gen AI tools, output, and educational applications through factors such as:

  • Suitability
  • Human oversight
  • Insight into data
  • Necessity
  • Ethics
  • Equity

Additional Frameworks and Resources

  • RTCF Prompt Pattern: Role, Task, Context, and Format
  • LEARNS Coaching Cycle: Professional learning and instructional coaching process
  • CLEAR Framework: Claim, Lens, Evidence, Alternatives, Response
  • Cybersecurity and Disaster Response Resources: Planning and professional learning supports for school technology leaders
  • SST Readiness and Instructional Frameworks: Resources connecting Texas assessment changes to classroom evidence and instructional response

Online Learning and Course Development

Learning Management Systems

Experience with:

  • Sapiqo LMS
  • WordPress-based LearnDash environments serving approximately 5,000 users
  • Moodle, including administration of thirteen district instances
  • Canvas LMS
  • Schoology LMS
  • WordPress publishing and course-support environments

Primary Course Development

  • AI Essentials for Educators
  • ChatGPT for Educators
  • Claude for Educators
  • Google Certified Educator Level 1
  • Google Certified Educator Level 2
  • Google Certified Trainer
  • Google Classroom
  • Schoology Educator
  • Chromebook Educator
  • Evidence-Based Teaching
  • Virtual World Builder
  • Cybersecurity for Educators
  • Strategies That Work

Course and Certification Co-Development

  • AI Tools for Educators
  • Campus Technology Specialist Certification
  • IT Director Certification
  • Instructional Coaching Certification
  • Remote Learning Educator Certification
  • Canva Specialist

Course Design Work

Course-development work includes:

  • Curriculum planning
  • Learning objectives
  • Self-paced instruction
  • Professional learning activities
  • Assessment and reflection
  • Digital badges
  • Certificates
  • Interactive resources
  • Multimedia
  • Accessibility
  • LMS implementation
  • Course revision and maintenance

Professional Learning Design

Design professional learning for educators, instructional coaches, librarians, administrators, technology leaders, and nonprofit staff.

Work includes:

  • Online courses
  • Certification programs
  • Workshops
  • Webinars
  • Conference sessions
  • Cohort experiences
  • Self-paced professional learning
  • Job-embedded learning
  • Instructional coaching resources
  • Implementation guides
  • Interactive professional learning tools

Professional learning emphasizes practical application, modeling, guided practice, reflection, evidence of implementation, and resources participants can use after the session ends.

Writing and Publications

  • Author of more than 900 professional blog articles
  • Author of more than 100 journal or magazine articles
  • Regular writer for TCEA TechNotes and other education publications
  • Write about Gen AI in education, digital leadership, instructional design, educational technology, evidence-informed teaching, cybersecurity, data privacy, online learning, curriculum, classroom tools, and professional development
  • Publish practical guidance on vibe-coding, open-source and free educational technology, Gen AI workflows, tool development, and responsible AI adoption
  • Translate complex technology and instructional topics into classroom-ready and leadership-ready guidance

Supporting publication resources include:

  • Interactive HTML tools
  • Infographics
  • Slide decks
  • Rubrics
  • Comparison matrices
  • Prompt libraries
  • Classroom activities
  • Printables
  • Decision tools
  • Visual frameworks
  • Professional learning materials

Speaking and Conference Presentations

Presenter, trainer, or keynote speaker for organizations and events including:

  • TCEA
  • TCDLA
  • TxCA
  • TxDLA
  • NSPA
  • ISTE
  • NETA
  • OTA
  • TUANZ, New Zealand
  • School districts
  • Universities
  • Professional associations
  • State and national webinars

Signature Topics

  • Generative AI adoption in schools and nonprofit organizations
  • Gen AI governance, privacy, and safety
  • Vibe-coding and educational software development
  • Digital curriculum and open educational resources
  • Evidence-informed teaching
  • SOLO Taxonomy and ACE
  • Instructional design
  • Professional learning systems
  • Digital leadership
  • Educational technology planning
  • Technology operations and modernization
  • Online learning
  • LMS implementation and course design
  • Cybersecurity and data privacy

Teaching and Consulting

  • University instructor in interactive design and systems thinking
  • Consultant in LMS implementation, Google Workspace, instructional design, online learning, educational technology planning, and professional learning
  • Former bilingual and ESL classroom teacher
  • Professional learning designer for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, librarians, administrators, and technology staff
  • Experience connecting classroom instruction, professional learning, curriculum, technology operations, and organizational leadership

Academic Background

M.A., Bicultural/Bilingual Studies

B.A., English

Awards, Recognition, and Credentials

  • ISTE Making IT Happen Award
  • Google Certified Innovator
  • Google Certified Trainer
  • Google Certified Educator Level 1
  • Google Certified Educator Level 2
  • ISTE Certified Educator
  • Microsoft 365 credentialing
  • EdTech blogging recognition
  • Certificates of appreciation and professional service recognition

Technical Expertise

Generative AI

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • BoodleBox
  • Ollama
  • Open-source models
  • Prompt design
  • AI agents
  • AI governance
  • Local AI

AI-Assisted Development

  • ChatGPT Codex
  • Claude Code
  • AI-assisted prototyping
  • Debugging
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Git-based development

Web Development

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Google Apps Script
  • Static web applications
  • Self-contained HTML tools
  • Git
  • GitHub Pages
  • WordPress

Learning Platforms

  • Sapiqo LMS
  • LearnDash
  • Moodle
  • Canvas
  • Schoology

Systems and Infrastructure

  • Linux
  • PHP/MySQL
  • Network operations
  • Server operations
  • VMware
  • SAN environments

Instructional and Content Development

  • Digital curriculum
  • Open educational resources
  • Professional learning
  • Online course design
  • Interactive learning
  • Educational frameworks
  • Standards alignment
  • Multilingual resources

Browse the Infographics and Frameworks collection for visual guides and direct activity links.

Selected Digital Portfolio

Sapiqo LMS

A vibe-coded learning management system developed to support online professional learning, enrollment, progress tracking, badges, and certificates.

DrawSplat

A free browser-based interactive whiteboard and classroom tool environment supporting visual learning, collaboration, classroom activities, and teacher-created content.

mglearn.github.io

A collection of free educational resources, interactives, curriculum materials, printables, professional learning resources, and classroom tools across subject areas and grade levels.

Problem-Solving Teaching

History, social studies, civic, and interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning experiences centered on evidence, context, perspective, and decision-making.

Critical Thinking Online Breakouts

Browser-based instructional activities combining curriculum content, evidence analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Science Detectives

Student investigations combining observation, evidence, reasoning, CER, and ACE.

ACE

A three-step routine for making learner understanding visible through Articulate, Connect, and Extend.

VIBES

A practical framework for AI-assisted creation: Vision, Instruct, Build, Evaluate, Ship.

PROTECT

A privacy and safety review framework for Gen AI and educational technology.

SHINE

A framework for evaluating the usefulness, appropriateness, oversight, ethics, and educational value of Gen AI tools and output.

Professional Statement

I build practical systems that help educators use technology with judgment.

Sometimes that means designing a professional learning program or online course. Sometimes it means developing a history investigation, classroom routine, printable, or framework that helps a teacher see what students understand. Increasingly, it also means building the software itself.

My work with Sapiqo LMS, DrawSplat, mglearn.github.io, mguhlin.github.io, ACE, and other educational tools reflects the same approach I have taken throughout my career: understand the problem, build something useful, test it with people, and keep improving it.