2018 Association of Middle Level Educators Educator of the Year; National Board Certified middle school ELA teacher; Author of The Flexible SEL Classroom and The Flexible ELA Classroom: Differentiation for Grades 4-8; Adjunct Professor of New Literacy and Differentiation, Canisius College in New York; Columnist,"Milestones" and "Mentor Me"; President of Frontier Central Teachers Association; Education Partner AFT's ShareMyLesson; Recipient of NoVo Foundation SEL in Action grant 2016 and 2017; Recipient of Teaching Tolerance Educator in Action Grant 2018; Director of Frontier Central School Summer Learning; Association of Middle Level Educators Board of Trustees 2018-2021