10 years as a high school ELA/ELD teacher with at-risk students 6 years as a regional ELA Department chair 4 years as the district's ELD Program Coordinator 2 years as the district's Literacy/ELA Program Coordinator Co-Creator of Access and PreAccess 1 year as Kernalytics Coordinator (data analytics platform being developed by the district) Published doctoral dissertation titled: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF TEACHERS AND STRUGGLING READERS: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND READING GAINS IN STRUGGLING SECONDARY READERS