Educator; Experienced Teacher from Elementary and Graduate Classrooms; Executive Director of Clerestory Learning; Cofounder/Co-owner of Make Way for Books; Developer of the Architecture of Learning instructional design model, the Foundations & Frameworks instructional reading program, and the Writer’s Stylus instructional writing program; Author, Uprise: Building Resilience in Ourselves and Others (2024) and The Architecture of Learning: Designing Instruction for the Learning Brain (2010)