Literacy Consultant; Former Staff Developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University; Former NYC Public School Teacher; Creator of the Digital Campus Course entitled, Teaching Reading in Small Groups; Author, A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences (2019), Understanding Texts & Readers: Responsive Comprehension Instruction with Leveled Texts (2018), The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers (2017), and Teaching Reading in Small Groups: Differentiated Instruction for Building Strategic, Independent Readers (2010)