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 I'm so glad you found your way here.

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For twenty years, I've designed literacy programs across the US, Haiti, and East, West, and Southern Africa, grounded in the science of reading and in whole child development. What I have learned across every classroom, every curriculum, and every child is this: emotional regulation is a cognitive prerequisite for reading, and literacy is a wellness outcome, not only an academic one. My work is to design curricula, train educators, and evaluate programs that treat those truths as foundational, not as add-ons. As a certified reading specialist and a clinical mental health counselor in training, I am formalizing the clinical lens this work has always required.

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What I deliver

• Literacy materials, scope and sequence, and intervention models that build emotional regulation into reading instruction so children can actually access the cognitive work the curriculum asks of them.

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• Bibliotherapy-informed curriculum design that uses the same text to teach oral language skills, phonemic awareness, build background knowledge, and emotional vocabulary at once, turning the literacy block into a space where children read and build resilience.

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• Trauma-informed assessment training that helps educators tell the difference between a child who cannot read and a child struggling with language acquisition, a learning disability, or lack of basic needs so your intervention decisions are based on the whole child.

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• Teacher training and professional development that rebuilds reading identity in struggling readers and equips educators to hold the vulnerability that learning to read requires.

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If your work touches resilient children (multilingual learners, immigrant and refugee students, children navigating trauma), I would love to brainstorm with you. So, whether you are ready for a conversation or just curious, let's connect. 

 

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