Email
Course
- 47222 Promoting Social and Academic Development of Urban Children
Job experience
- Director of Education and Leadership, Chicago Quest Schools, Chicago International Charter School
- Director of Elementary School Partnerships and Co-Leader of the Academic and Social Support Initiative, USI Network, Urban Education Institute, University of Chicago
- Consultant, Chicago School Readiness Project, University of Chicago
- Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research
- Training Faculty Associate, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Juvenile Research Pre-Doctoral Psychology Internship Program
Fields of Special Interest
- Development of Systemic Approaches to Integrating Academic and Social Support in Schools
- Evidence-based Decison Making in Student Support Team Processes
- School-Based Promotion of Healthy Development in Children and Adolescents
- Coaching for Educational Equity and Excellence
Publications or presentations
- "Public Schools: Issues of Access and Opportunity for Under-Resourced Children and Families", DePaul University Community Mental Health Center, March, 2008
- "Improving Instruction: Using Communities of Practice to Bring High Quality Teaching to Scale" American Educational Research Association, April, 2007 (with Julie Burnett)
- "Increasing our Relevance to Urban School Reform: Rethinking the Prevention Paradigm", Society for Community Research and Action Biennial Conference, June, 2005
