Expertise

Research Interests

  • The potential of Restorative Practices to reduce racial and gender disparities in school discipline
  • Restorative Practices for community healing and positive change
  • Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  • Multi-tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS)
  • Implementation Science
  • School-wide discipline
  • Disproportionality in education and discipline
  • Universal Design for Learning

Her professional areas of focus include school-wide discipline systems and classroom practices; equitable discipline practices; trauma-informed schools; clinical and school social work; and organizational systems change.

Degrees
MSW, University of Michigan, Clinical Social Work, Children and Families, 2003
BS, Indiana University, Environmental Policy, 1995