created a theater department at a pre-K through 8 CPS school based on success of after-school theater programming

developed a trauma responsive theater curriculum with a team of artists, educators, counselors and administrators

developed original assessment tracking practices to measure social-emotional and content based growth

resulted in 16 original productions by students performed for the community

selected based on program success to coach arts teachers on relational trust and classroom engagement

chosen to speak at 2019 Ingenuity Arts Education Conference on devising in the middle school classroom as anti-racist pedagogy

founded a theater education nonprofit, Backyard Chicago to implement this model in after-school and summer programming at three other schools in Chicago

translated trauma-responsive devising practices to the Zoom classroom through three successful theater camps with the Chicago Children's Theatre and four successful classes

mentored and coached other teachers on Zoom instruction, creating original assessment practices translating pedagogy into an online context