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The Inclusion Initiative supports educators and educational leaders to close the gap between their intentions and their impact and sustain their efforts to create inclusive, accessible, and liberatory classrooms and schools where learners with and without disabilities thrive.Our work focuses on disability justice in education as well as excellent.

Coach portfolio of school teams on a diverse range of goals (lower elementary literacy, middle school ELA and math, attendance) towards breakthrough results.

Consultant with various schools and companies to provide a range of services, including needs assessment, training, UDL consultation, and much more. Currently offering program coordination support for Bezos Academy summer teacher program.

Led the vision and strategy for Teach For America’s national cross-content wing. Managed a team of managing directors and directors leading eight cross-content areas, including Curricular Literacy, Learner Variability, Special Education, Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students, Learning Environment.

Led the vision and strategy for Teach For America’s national education initiatives: STEM, Computer Science, & Learner Variability and Special Education, including managing two Computer Science Fellowships and managing upwards of $5 million in grants.

Led Teach For America’s Learner Variability and Special Education Initiative. Set the Initiative’s vision, strategy, and logic model, and managed a director to work toward our vision of strengthening learner variability and disability justice.

Managed a statewide team of four content directors that spanned grades PK-12th and all content/placement areas to train and support Teach For America corps members throughout their participant journey. Set our team-wide vision and the bar of excellence for rigor and managed my team to develop content visions for 400 corps members, 50 full-time and 20.

Planned and executed the NYC Institute to train over 600 incoming Teach For America corps members annually. Set the vision and strategy annually, managed our partnerships with all summer school sites, and managed all of our student and teacher-facing curriculum and learning experiences, including curriculum writers.

Managed special services (special education, Section 504, CLDS, social work, and Response to Intervention) across all nine Achievement First schools in Connecticut. As the first person to hold this role, I created and executed a vision and strategic plan and developed goals and metrics for students, teachers, schools, and the network.

Coached a cohort of 39 PK-5th grade Teach For America corps members to support them in achieving ambitious outcomes with their students and were active leaders in their schools. My first-year teachers met their achievement goals with their students and my second-year teachers exceeded them.

Taught PK-5th graders in a special education resource room setting. Collaborated with autism self-contained teachers to provide services to students with a wide range of access needs to work towards full inclusion and met 100% of their IEP and grade-level goals. Nominated for Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching award.