Curriculum Developer; Instructional Leader; Professor of Literacy, Educational Leadership, College of Education, San Diego State University; Teacher, Co-Founder, Health Sciences High and Middle College; Recipient, Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, American Association of State Colleges and Universities; Co-Author, Belonging in School: Creating a Place Where Kids Want to Learn and Teachers Want to Stay ― An Illustrated Playbook (2026, Revised Edition), Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers (2025), Teaching Reading: A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension (2022), Comprehension [Grades K-12]: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading (2020), and This Is Balanced Literacy, Grades K-6 (2019)