In 2024–2025, I worked with the founding principal of Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy, a new NYC public school for students with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. My role was to translate the school model into the concrete structures staff would need to implement it.
The design challenge was to build an operating system before the school opened, before staff routines or implementation patterns existed. Working with the founding principal, I identified what needed to be explicit before launch—including instruction, curriculum, assessment, co-teaching, student support, professional learning, roles, routines, and communication—and translated that planning into the staff handbook.
The resulting handbook connects mission and core beliefs to instruction, curriculum, assessment, student support, staff development, and daily operations. The school’s four values are embedded across routines such as arrival, data meetings, and communication expectations, using consistent language throughout.
