I spent over a decade in K–6 classrooms before I ever called myself a consultant. That practitioner foundation is still the lens I bring to every project, whether I am reviewing a publisher's new literacy program, building a scope and sequence for a district, or helping a homeschool family figure out what their child actually needs.

I hold a Master of Science in Reading and a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, both from Pittsburg State University. Over 10+ years, I taught early elementary grades, built and owned a K–2 reading scope and sequence used district-wide, and collaborated with teachers through 6th grade on standards alignment and curriculum decisions.

More recently, I worked as a Curriculum Operations Manager for an edtech company, where I wrote implementation guides, managed curriculum delivery across a distributed team, and learned how curriculum decisions hold up (or do not) once they leave the classroom and scale to hundreds of users. That combination, deep classroom practice plus operational experience at scale, is what I bring to every engagement now.