Professional Career:
- Educator with 15 years of experience teaching and leading students and staff
- Six years of teaching experience in both high school social studies and reading classrooms
- Eight years of district leadership experience, specifically with curriculum and professional development, and one year of building leadership as an assistant principal at a middle school
- Experience leading stakeholders through a curriculum adoption process, including coordination with curriculum companies, rubric creation process, and distribution of resources, with multiple subject areas and grade levels at different districts
- Experience with learning management systems, including creation of courses used for in-person and fully virtual classes
- Led teams of teachers and administrators through the process to create assessment questions aligned to state standards using Item Specifications and Question Stems
- Dynamic presenter and experience presenting both virtually and in-person to students, teachers, district leaders, and large groups
- Experience completing data analysis, specifically using excel and Google sheets, plan and coordinate site and district trainings, hiring, and curriculum purchases, creation, and distribution
- Experience managing a large budget to oversee adoptions for English, Social Studies, and Mathematics in both the largest district in Missouri and a small rural district.
- Served as an assessment coordinator and completed multiple presentations to stakeholders about data and facilitated next step decisions for districts based on data
- Master’s Degrees in both Teaching History (2011) and Literacy (2013) from Missouri State University
- Doctorate Degree in Educational Administration from Southwest Baptist University (2017)
- Certifications: English Language Arts 9-12, Social Science 9-12, Special Reading K-12, Principal K-12, and Superintendent K-12
Personal, Hobbies, In My Spare Time, Unique Facts:
- Wife, mother, daughter, and focused on spending time with my family
- Coaching and watching my daughters play sports
- Spending time with my three dogs
- Cooking for my family
- Traveling and camping with my family to create new memories
What I Love About School / The Profession of Education:
- Fostering trust with students and staff
- Helping students and teachers to believe in themselves that they can achieve greatness
- Encouraging people to never give up and value learning
Favorite Quote:
“Whether You Think You Can, or Think You Can’t … You’re Right” — Henry Ford
Favorite or Most Impactful Teacher Growing Up:
My favorite teacher was my weightlifting coach in high school. He always pushed me to work harder than the day before and never let me give up on myself. He not only cared about his students and their athletic performance, but he also helped shape them into better human beings.