As an educational leader and lifelong learner, I have unapologetically high standards for instructional quality. As superintendent of the PK-12 Kenilworth School District from 2019 - 2024, my work focused on providing students with every opportunity for academic, social, and emotional growth. That commitment took many forms, from safely reopening schools in the fall of 2020 amid the pandemic to redesigning learning spaces for modern instruction such as coding and e-sports to reimagining the district’s early literacy program (providing every K-6 teacher with Orton Gillingham training).
I expanded the district’s offerings in the arts, most notably with a popular middle and high school dance program.
In my time in the Kenilworth School District, my team and I created a model for robust mental health services, ensuring students were supported emotionally as well as academically through a multi-tiered system of supports.
Strong communication is central to my leadership style, and the community connections I established early in my tenure at Kenilworth served the district well during the pandemic and a 2022 bond referendum campaign. Months of community outreach culminated in the passage of the $31.4 million proposal for renovations and a two-story building addition to create a distinct middle school and high school technology wing.
I believe collaboration is essential to a thriving academic environment. At Kenilworth, I curated a talented leadership team that heightened the district’s focus on curriculum development, innovation, and parent and teacher engagement.
In my prior role as Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction in the Millburn Public School District, I supported teaching and learning across the PK-12 district’s eight schools and 5,000 students. My work across grade levels included striving toward greater equity and access to Advanced Placement courses and modernizing the longstanding Millburn Instructional Mindset, a framework of beliefs about teaching and learning reflective of the community’s high expectations and Millburn’s rigorous academic landscape. I helped shape the educational components of a $25.6 million bond proposal that brought innovation, research, and design spaces to each school.
Before my time in Millburn, I started my career as a high school English teacher in the Vernon Township School District. There, I also held the roles of Middle School Assistant Principal, Supervisor of English Language Arts, and PK-12 Director of Curriculum and Instruction. I left Vernon as the Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, Personnel & Policy.
I am currently a doctoral student in the Curriculum & Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Prior to my doctoral studies at Teachers College, I completed a Master's degree program in Educational Leadership at Caldwell University and another in Literacy Education at Montclair State University. I completed my undergraduate work at Fordham University in NYC.