My story
“Every child is a math person. I know — because I was the kid who didn’t believe it.”
I was that kid who hated math. I sat in the back, quiet and convinced that numbers belonged to someone smarter. Then a single classroom experience shifted how I saw myself — and what school could be for every learner.
That moment grew into sixteen years in Chandler Unified classrooms: teaching, refining practice, and watching students discover that math could feel like theirs. Today my work reaches beyond my own walls — keynotes, professional development, coaching — so instructional leaders everywhere can build the conditions where every child is seen as a math person.
My mission is simple and stubborn: help teachers and leaders believe it, model it, and teach it — until “I’m not a math person” disappears from our hallways.
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Facilitating learning that puts student thinking at the center.