About

I came to education through community work.

Early in my career, I worked with young people and families on Chicago's South Side. I later became a teacher, special educator, dean, trainer, and district leader. The roles changed, but much of the reason for doing the work did not: I wanted to help build institutions where people who are too easily overlooked are seen, challenged, and given a genuine opportunity to succeed.

That has led me toward problems that are usually bigger than any one program. How do you remove barriers without lowering expectations? How do values become actual systems rather than statements? How do organizations change without losing the reason they started changing in the first place?

Today I work in public education as an assistant superintendent. My work has included strategy, equity, restorative practices, leadership development, technology and AI, organizational change, and the less visible work of turning ideas into structures that can actually last.

That is also what I tend to write about here: decisions, evidence, implementation, institutions, and the distance that can develop between what an organization says it is trying to accomplish and what it eventually builds.

I hold a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Francis and have spent more than two decades working across classrooms, schools, districts, and community organizations.

This site is independent of my employer. The views here are my own.