Let’s Bring More Joy to Literacy & Learning
Curious About Working with Me?
Check Out Some Common Questions from Fellow Educators & Parents!
CLASSROOM SUPPORT & EDUCATOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Most days follow your school's bell schedule. During this time, I'm often able to meet with three grades. We spend part of our time meeting, and part of our time applying our learning directly to classrooms full of children ("lab site"). When subs are scarce, or teachers want more individualized support, I push into individual classrooms and coach teachers on their area of focus.
While Onsite Residencies are the most powerful form of professional learning, we can also work together virtually. Here, we can collaborate during grade-level meetings, I can host office hours, where teachers sign up for content-focused time slots, or we can collaborate to work on a standards-based curriculum and/or adjust mandated curricula.
My goal is to always be as flexible and supportive as possible, so we can work together to create a version of professional development that works for you and your building.
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I am well-versed in a number of different curricula, but am not of the belief that any one curriculum will meet the strengths and needs of individual students, or teachers. My work centers on helping teachers look critically at any literacy curriculum they are using, hold it up to a variety of criteria to support student learning and revise, retool and rethink as necessary.
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Everywhere! My work has brought me across the globe.
INDIVIDUAL STUDENT & HOMESCHOOL POD DYSLEXIA THERAPIES
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Tutoring often focuses on helping with homework or practicing grade-level material. Dyslexia therapy is different. It’s therapy for the brain’s reading system; it rewires how a child processes sounds, letters, and words. Therapy follows a specific sequence, includes mastery checkpoints, and is taught only by someone specially trained. The goal isn’t just to get through assignments, but to build lifelong reading and spelling skills.
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I use Connections: OG in 3D®, a Structured Literacy program based on the science of reading research. It’s research-backed, multisensory, and designed so every lesson builds on the last, helping kids understand the why behind reading and spelling, not just memorize words.
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No. Instead, each lesson has built-in checkpoints. I can see exactly what your child has mastered and what still needs practice right within the lesson.
