Bio &
Career

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I am an Instructional leader who is passionately committed to making the words all students mean ALL students and to make learning non-negotiable. 

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In my current role as director of education of a Title1 school that has historically underperformed, my team and I guided our school to reductions in the percentage of at-risk students in eight of 10 reading and math CBM assessment areas with no areas regressing in 2021-2022 compared to 2020-2021. In addition, after designing and implementing a disciplinary system based on restorative practices and Glasser Choice Theory, we guided social emotional growth in that 75% of students who earned a suspension from school activities in some respect did not repeat a similar infraction. 

 

While serving as a middle school principal at two different public schools and emphasizing differentiated instruction and project-based learning, I led teams that increased student proficiency rates in three of four subject areas and achieved student growth rates on state assessments that ranked in our state's top 15% of public schools. During both middle school principalships, our teams reduced student suspensions by 50% or more during my tenure while focusing on restorative practices and Glasser Choice Theory. In 2020, I was named a mentor principal with Florida Atlantic University’s aspiring leaders’ program, and I mentored Florida’s 2021 state teacher of the year Krista Stanley, a fourth-year math teacher who guided 86% of her students to proficiency while mastering our system of differentiated instruction while our school earned back-to-back county teachers of the year. In 2017, I became one of 10 middle school principals selected by the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) and Rand Corporation to be subject of a case study as a result of our strategic action plan for school improvement and the resulting student data.

Prior to serving as a principal, I led as a central office administrator and vice principal at the Villages Charter School, where our team guided our school to six "A" ratings from the Florida Department of Education. As an assistant principal at Woodland Hills Junior High School in Pittsburgh, I helped to facilitate success in 19 areas of NCLB in 2009-10 after the school only achieved success in eight categories the prior year.

In addition to school-based leadership, I supported learning as an adjunct instructor at Rasmussen College and as an executive function coach with BeyondBooksmart.