The pattern started early. I founded a Deaf-inclusion program at the summer camp that shaped me. Then, in my first year of teaching, a student’s question about a racist product name grew into a persuasive-writing campaign that reached the company itself — which later renamed it.
Later, as an instructional coach, an assistant principal, and a district leader facilitating improvement within and across schools, I worked alongside teachers, teams, and principals — and found the instructional work and the structural work were never really separate. Designing learning, helping strong practice spread, and building the structures that made it usable were different ways of answering that same underlying question, at different scales. Staying close to classrooms and schools is what kept the designs grounded in the realities of practice. Most recently I returned to teaching, which sharpened my sense of what works in front of students today.
That question still drives my work. This portfolio brings that work together.
