Educator
- Ph.D., MS, and BS in Special Education from Florida State University
- Licensed teacher in Florida and Iowa
- Twice awarded teacher of the year as a special educator of adolescents with significant intellectual disabilities
- Reading interventionist for kindergarten and first grade struggling readers
- University instructor for undergraduate and graduate courses in special education at Florida State University
- Mentor to aspiring undergraduate and graduate researchers
- Creator and provider of professional development for teachers, instructional coaches, school leaders, and state education agencies
- Graduate certificate in Educational Measurement and Statistics from Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University
- 7 years of experience as a research methodologist at FCRR and IRRC, 5 years of experience as an IES research fellow at FCRR
- Conducted RCTs, QEDs, correlational, and observational studies and evaluations on reading intervention and instruction, school leadership, and state education policies
- 30+ peer-reviewed publications, 100+ presentations at national and international conferences
- Certified What Works Clearinghouse Reviewer
- Database creation and management in MS Access
- Quantitative skills and software: Basic descriptive and inferential statistics, ANOVA/regression, mediation/moderation/path analyses, quantile regression, HLM/MLM, fixed/random effects, growth curve modeling, multilevel quantile regression, latent variable analyses, factor analysis, LPA/LCA, SEM, IRT, meta-analysis, Social Network Analysis, SPSS, SAS, Mplus, HLM, R
- Qualitative skills and software: Coding professional development and classroom instruction using event logging of audio and video observations, structured and semi-structured classroom observation protocols, fidelity of instruction protocols, structured and semi-structured interview protocols, document analyses, surveys, curriculum review, Noldus Observer Pro, NVIVO, BORIS
- Department head, Transition coordinator, and Action Research District Liaison of Gretchen Everhart School
- Lab manager/Project coordinator for “School Based Prevention and Identification of Learning Disabilities” project at Florida Center for Reading Research – managing research staff team of 25+ for data collection on approximately 500+ students in Leon County, Florida
- Project coordinator for Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading Norming and Linking study – hiring/supervising/managing 6 regional coordinators and assistants and 100+ remote data collectors for data collection on 33,000+ students across Florida
- Iowa Reading Research Center coding team leader – hiring/supervising/managing team of 10+ audio/video coders across Iowa
- PI on Florida’s Lowest Performing Schools study and Mississippi’s K-3 Professional Development study – leading teams of and collaborating with 10+ researchers, research assistants, curriculum vendors, and SEA personnel across the Southeast`