I am a First Grade Teacher turned K-8 Resource Room teacher turned Elementary Principal turned Pk-12 Director of Curriculum with a mission to support school and district administrators lead reading and change educational outcomes and trajectories for students.

I began my teaching career in Chicago Public Schools as an intern teaching summer school. After college graduation I moved to New Orleans and taught for several years as part of the Recovery School District. Both those experiences were formative in developing my passion for education reform.

My first principal job was as special education teaching principal for an unbridged island off the coast of Maine. I road a ferry to work daily and it was in this role through working with a literacy consultant my teaching practices transformed with my new knowledge of the science of reading. Then I became principal of PK-5 Title 1 school where we increased reading achievement by over 20 percentage points for grades 3-5 and over 50 points in K-1 by our third year together.

My training includes an M.S.Ed. in Teaching and Learning from the University of Southern Maine, an Ed.S. in Education Leadership from University of New England, a Certificate of Advanced Education Leadership from Harvard University and LETRS for administrators. I am currently a doctoral student at Vanderbilt Peabody College in Organizational Leadership.