Children's Author; Middle School Teacher; Assistant Professor of Education, Endicott College; Author, Fantastic Failures: True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down (2018), Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You (2016), and A Call to Creativity: Writing, Reading, and Inspiring Students in an Age of Standardization (2012); Co-Editor, Imagine It Better: Visions of What School Might Be (2014), Break These Rules (2013), and Burned In: Fueling the Fire to Teach (2011); Co-Author of the Children's books, If My Love Were a Fire Truck (2017), Bedtime Blast-Off! (2016), The Looney Experiment (2015), and The Gumazing Gum Girl Series