I’m not just an educator with 32 years of experience—I’m a Black mother who had to fight for her sons’ right to learn. That lived reality shaped my mission: helping families reclaim education through micro-schools that nurture brilliance from the ground up.
Over the course of my career, I’ve taught every level from pre-K through graduate school, in both general and special education. My expertise lies in working with students with behavioral and emotional disorders and building authentic collaboration between African American parents and schools.
But inside public education, I saw a painful truth: teaching practices often worked against how children actually learn. Standardized testing and top-down mandates stripped teachers of their professional voice, forcing us to comply with policies that harmed our youngest learners most. Despite my research and efforts to create developmentally appropriate tools and strategies, the system left no room for a bottom-up approach that empowered teachers and parents.
As a Black parent, these struggles weren’t just professional—they were personal. Public schools often treated families like mine differently, and I lived that reality each time I advocated for my sons. My advanced degrees and decades of classroom experience didn’t change the fact that my voice as a parent was dismissed.
That’s why I stepped away to open a family-owned childcare center and later helped launch a private micro-school. For years, I held on to hope that public schools could be reformed. But today, I believe it’s time for Black families and communities to chart our own path.
Just like the one-room schoolhouses that nurtured generations before us, micro-schools offer quality learning, love, and the encouragement every child deserves. My mission is to help families and educators reclaim education—not as a dream, but as a reality we can build together.