Let me
help you
transform
your school

  • Culturally Relevant and Responsive Teaching and Behavior Management​
  • Facilitation of conversations around unconscious bias
  • Effective practices for equitable teaching based on brain research
  • Creating a community of learners and leaders
I offer full and half day professional development. 
"One and Done" professional development doesn't work, so I include follow up coaching to support schools in the important shifts and strategies that will need to be made.  
When teachers  and school leaders apply the strategies learned in my workshop,
it can change their lives and the lives of their students.
And with those changes, create an environment
​where teaching and learning blossom.

​EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT
AND NATIONAL TRAINER

​"Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be." Rita Pearson

Similar to the phrase about the three most important things about real estate, "Location, Location", in education, it would be, Relationship, Relationship, Relationship.

Why then do some teachers struggle to build relationships with students, while others do not?  
For some, it is the lack of knowledge of how our brains connect knowledge and emotion, for others it is unconscious bias, and for others they just do not realize the importance of it, they categorize it as "touchy feely stuff that is not part of education.

In my training Culturally Responsive Teaching training I address all three areas of disconnect and teachers who previously were unable to build relationships with students find pathways to connect.  Along with the effective, practical, easy to implement strategies , classrooms begin to transform. 


My personal guarantee is that after the training 
  • Teachers will begin to enjoy their jobs,
  • Students will love coming to school.  
  • Attendance will go up and office referrals go down
20 YEARS AS A CLASSROOM TEACHER

NATIONAL TRAINER, CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

K-12 ELA COORDINATOR FOR VALLEJO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
​
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZER FOR EDUCATORS


   Your Teachers
​   will learn...

    If PERMITTED
    TO HAVE JUST ONE TRAINING,
    THIS IS THE ONE!
  • How to create an environment where students can learn and teachers can teach.
  • How to build a community that includes all children and their families.
  • How to teach to create, develop and grow culturally responsive teaching practices.
  • How to uncover and talk about unconscious bias.
  • ​How to arrange the classroom for maximum performance
  • How to form relationships that will turn your most challenging children into your biggest allies.
  • This training will help to raise test scores for your students,
  • decrease discipline challenges, and improve classroom rapport.
  • You will learn how to meet students where they are
  • and lead them where they need to be,
  • ​ capture attention, and promote deeper learning.