Supporting teachers, school leaders, and parents to make anti-racist practices a part of our daily work and daily lives.

Educator

If we believe all human life has equal value, our classrooms and decisions must reflect that. Schools can and need to be joyful, rigorous, relevant places where every child can thrive. Structural inequities and institutional racism create and maintain obstacles--visible and invisible, internal and external--that make change complex and challenging. I work with adults to align actions with goals and values.

I’ve worked in public schools for 30 years as a teacher, a literacy coach, and a school leader. I’ve trained student teachers, coached school leaders, and led professional development for administrators, teachers, and district personnel. Whether I’m facilitating critical inquiry groups, supporting teachers to integrate social justice into curriculum, developing a school-specific scope of inquiry-based professional learning, or helping a leader work through a complicated issue, I am grounded and driven by a vision of a more just world.

Services

Please feel free to reach out for more information about the services listed, or to discuss how I or my colleagues can support you.

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Leadership and Equity Coaching

I help educational and non-profit leaders develop and center their vision for equity. Together, we’ll unpack your current reality, set goals, identify barriers, investigate root causes, and create an action and accountability plan that embraces justice and anti-racist practices.

Educational Collaboration

I love to support schools to design professional learning that changes outcomes for students and also engages and enriches teachers. Whether we focus on critical inquiry groups, teacher-led action research, mini-cycles of inquiry, or modified lesson study, I bring a commitment to interrupting patterns of inequity and a wealth of experience, tools, and approaches to our work.

Speaking Engagements and Panels

I’d love to share my experience, insight, and questions with you. I’m available to speak about integrating social justice into curriculum, developing critical literacy through culturally sustaining texts, fostering an empowering culture of learning, distributive leadership, facilitating teacher inquiry, or writing about teaching.

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Name It Workshops

How to talk about race with kids and raise anti-racist activists

Talking to children about Race can be one of the most difficult—and most important—things a parent must do. Name It Workshops give parents the tools they need to have brave, developmentally appropriate conversations about race with their children.

We host two free Name it Workshops each year, and we're available for personalized workshops for your school or community.