Board liaison: facilitate, collaborate on resource creation, and center the committee on the organization’s mission and values

Co-Facilitator: organize and lead monthly meetings, build camaraderie and systems of support between regional GT and Advanced Academics Coordinators, Directors, etc.

Parent Representative/At-Large Board Member: Guide strategic decisions and uphold fiduciary responsibility to the organization

Board Member, Chair-Elect: fulfill member, organization, and extra-organizational communication expectations, update the board on pertinent actions, guide strategic decisions and uphold fiduciary responsibility to the organization

Board liaison (present), member/chair-elect/chair (past): facilitate the creation of resources to guide and support families of GT learners

• Evaluate, adapt, create, and improve on identification and assessment practices, service design, curriculum and instruction, professional learning, and outreach practices to ensure fidelity of services per the Texas State Plan for Gifted/Talented Students
• Hire, develop, and coordinate a team to support and create resources for over 11,000 identified GT students (as well as those who have not yet been identified), across 113 K-12 campuses
• Support meeting Javits Grant deadlines and requirements ($2.9 million federal grant)
• Develop and share family/community outreach presentations, lead professional learning for teachers, counselors, administrators, and district personnel
• Communicate and partner with families, communities, businesses, other departments, programs, and institutions to promote and expand services and support for gifted learners
• Collaborate with state and national leaders to remain at the forefront of gifted education

One of three positions created through a Javits Grant to improve diversity, equity, and access for gifted learners by reevaluating and expanding the identification process, growing teacher efficacy, knowledge, and skills surrounding GT education, and developing curriculum and professional development to meet those goals. Promoted internally to Advanced Academics Coordinator after six months.

• Enhance, update, and increase professional learning opportunities
• Implement 2nd Grade Universal Screener across 113 schools
• Improve and increase family engagement resources
• Improve and create curriculum resources
• Support hiring and development of curriculum writers to build an enrichment curriculum

Advanced Academics and Gifted & Talented

• Oversee training of all teachers on GT Foundations in Nature & Needs, Social-Emotional Aspects, Identification & Assessment, Differentiation, and Creativity & Instructional Strategies
• Coordinate with the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented and Regions XIII & XX to provide training for district personnel
• Ensure elementary and Advanced Academics courses are meeting the needs of all gifted and twice-exceptional learners
• Manage the district GT budget for testing, field trips, AP textbooks, teacher training, showcases, and STEAM resources directly supporting GT learners
• Ensure AP and UT OnRamps teachers rotate through in-district professional learning and Summer Institutes
• Select, onboard, and coordinate GT Pull Out teachers in K-5, and GT Advisory teachers in grades 6-8 to fulfill GT service needs at the campus level
• Facilitate enrichment opportunities, camps, and clubs like Camp Invention, UIL A+ Academics, GT Showcases, and GT Competitions

Curriculum Design

• Develop textbooks and a comprehensive and differentiated curriculum for all subjects, K-12
• Hire and lead teams to write approximately 10 units per grade level per subject in K-5, about 2,000 units in the core classes alone, with 3 weeks worth of lessons per unit on average, totaling about 30,000 lessons in the core classes
• Create resources in secondary, supplemented with OER and custom-made cK-12 Flexbooks and interactive iBooks

Precalculus, Geometry, UIL Math Coach

From Remediation to AP Calculus

8th Grade Math, Algebra 1/1R, TAKS, Math Models

• 2022 TAGT Advocate for the Gifted
• 2022 GiftED MasterMind Speaker
• 2023 Keynote Speaker, Region 13 Advancing Academics Conference
• 2023 Keynote Speaker, Round Rock ISD GT Family Conference
• 2018-Present Presenter TAGT GiftED, Leadership, and Gifted+ Conferences
• 2018-2019 TAGT Emerging Leader
• 2022 Ed Fund Grant Winner, Camp Invention
• 2020 TEA TEKS Guides Development
• 2016–2025 GT Support Web Designer
• 2014–2022 District Textbook Committee Lead
• 2014–2022 Multimedia Content Creator and Copyright Expert
• 2019 TEA Instructional Materials Quality Evaluation
• 2012 GCPASS — College/Career Readiness Collaborator
• 2012 Mentor Grant Action Research Committee

• Ability and achievement tests: NNAT, CogAT, NGAT, WISC, KBIT, Ravens, OLSAT, NWEA MAP, TerraNova, etc.
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• GT support programs and organizations
• K-12 Common Core and Texas Standards (TEKS)
• Web development software
• Office suites/productivity/data processing software
• OpenAI, Gemini, and other AI
• Data Management Software (OnDataSuite, 5Lab, Frontline, Jasper)
• TEA Programming (VSN, Gateway, etc.)
• Asynchronous platforms (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Google Classroom, etc.)
• ePub/iBook Creation