About
I work at the intersection of curriculum, instruction, leadership, and strategy — helping education organizations navigate complex change with clarity and coherence.
My career spans classroom teaching, school leadership, district-level instructional work, nonprofit partnerships, and advisory roles with education and edtech organizations. Across these contexts, my focus has remained consistent: understanding how decisions made at the system level show up in daily practice — and helping leaders design work that holds together over time.
A Systems-Level Perspective
I began my career as a classroom educator, where I experienced firsthand how instructional initiatives are received, adapted, and sometimes unintentionally diluted once they reach teachers and students. That experience continues to shape my work.
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Since then, I have served in building-level leadership roles, supported district curriculum and instructional efforts, and partnered with organizations working to improve teaching and learning at scale. I have also advised education nonprofits and edtech companies on instructional design, evaluation, and impact.
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This cross-system experience allows me to see patterns that are often missed when work is siloed — and to help leaders make decisions with greater awareness of downstream effects.
How I Think About Improvement
I do not believe meaningful improvement comes from adding programs or chasing trends.
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Lasting change requires:
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Clear instructional priorities
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Alignment across curriculum, professional learning, and leadership expectations
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Thoughtful decision-making under real constraints
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Respect for educator judgment and capacity
Much of my work involves helping organizations slow down just enough to clarify what matters most — and then move forward with intention.
AI, Instruction, and Leadership
Recent advances in AI have amplified challenges that already existed in many education systems: fragmentation, initiative overload, and uncertainty about instructional purpose.
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I approach AI not as a tool rollout, but as a leadership issue. In my work, AI becomes a lens for examining professional learning, ethics, responsibility, and system coherence. The goal is not rapid adoption, but shared understanding and sustainable capacity.
What Guides My Work
Across roles and contexts, a few principles consistently guide my work:
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Improvement is a system-level challenge, not a collection of isolated fixes
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Leadership decisions shape instructional practice, whether intentionally or not
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Adult learning is often the bottleneck to change
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Coherence matters more than novelty
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Trust and clarity enable better judgment
I bring these principles into every partnership, regardless of setting.
A Thoughtful Partner
I am most often engaged as a thought partner to leadership teams — someone who can help clarify problems, surface tradeoffs, and design next steps that make sense for a specific context.​
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Whether working with school and district leaders, education nonprofits, or edtech organizations, my role is the same: to help align vision, strategy, and practice in service of better outcomes for educators and students.