I have been blessed and continued to be blessed with wonderful and challenging career experiences! Special education teacher, middle school reading teacher, director of Special education, elementary principal, middle school principal, director of professional development and school change, director of human resources and assistant superintendent–urban, suburban and rural schools in Illinois and Ohio.  I continue to support the great work of educators through online teaching with hundreds of teachers across our country.   Additionally, I provide  coaching services to school leaders, recently  completing a $1.2 M, three -year grant to coach the principals of the 80 lowest functioning schools in Ohio–this work has been very rewarding (and humbling) as all of the schools deal with unbelievable poverty–in urban centers and in Appalachian hill communities.

So to my classes I bring experience and also daily learnings from being in the trenches where we strive for student success with those most at risk.  I’m excited to be with you on our learning journey!

Over the past 6 years over 700 teachers have taken my online courses–prior to going online I have taught over 2500 teachers at the graduate level!