A philosophy is only as good as its results.
Mine comes with a decade of adaptive-platform data, intervention groups, and language cohorts. Here's what the numbers say — and what they mean for a child.
What this means: a full year of growth plus a quarter more — as the class average, on i-Ready math & reading.
What this means: every intervention student beat a goal set above the standard — students the average had written off.
What this means: language growth you can hear at the dinner table, in one school year.
What this means: even on the system's own test, personal beats standardized.
What this means: the master key handed out early, when it matters most.
2015 → today: public to premier independent
Renaissance Charter School
Where the craft began: my first classrooms, my first adaptive platforms, and the first proof that pace should belong to the child.
Galaxy Elementary
Classroom and ESOL resource teaching in a Title I school — where the system's limits got real, and so did every child's potential.
Pine Jog Elementary
Team lead of six educators. Designed the culturally responsive ESOL curriculum — and ESOL Night — that moved 90% of beginning speakers up a level.
Saint Andrew's School
IB Primary Years Programme at a premier independent school — inquiry-based, student-driven, whole-child. The philosophy at full speed.
Teachers teach me too — and I return the favor
Team lead
Led a six-educator team — planning, data, and morale.
Mentor teacher
The designated door new teachers knock on.
PD facilitator
Workshops on Socratic Seminars, Nearpod, and Jamboard.
Certified Lumio trainer
I train educators to make technology serve children.
She's the teacher other teachers copy — and the one kids remember.
She saw our son as a whole person, not a reading level.