Education professional skilled in instructional leadership, conflict resolution, organizational culture, staff development, and student learning. 25 years of experience nurturing collective efficacy as a Teacher, Curriculum and Instruction Specialist, School Principal, Human Resources Director, Education Services Director, Education Ombuds, and Mediator. Adept in teaching, collaboration, strategic planning, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, diversity, and inclusion. I seek to live in congurence with my faith. I cultivate curiosity into a life-long love for learning. Honing the habit of curiosity builds connections with a myriad of diverse others with whom I collaborate. This increases learning, opens opportunities, expands empathy, shifts perspectives, breaks barriers, extends boundaries, solves problems, strengthens relationships, celebrates discovery, expresses creatively, interjects joy, loves others and changes the world. "Every encounter with a child is by divine appointment." Wes Stafford