I established IncludED, my professional development practice, in 2019 to teach educators, education professionals, and homeschooling parents strategies that will support their teaching and optimize their students' and children's learning, regardless of age, level, background, learning scheme, or ability.  I believe that education is truly inclusive only if every student learns and if we teach the whole student.  I teach strategies that I have learned, innovated, created, and field tested with my own students in multiple learning environments (including as a homeschooling parent to my son, a gifted learner).  Rooted in Differentiated Instruction and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and imbued with Social-Emotional Learning principles, my strategies represent a unique synthesis of these and other methods and philosophies, designed to teach students how they learn best.    

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Since 2019, I have regularly engaged in training other arts educators by facilitating professional development workshops, presenting my work at professional development conferences, providing professional development consultations, training colleagues in informal settings, and writing music education blog posts.  In addition, each summer, I teach a graduate-level class entitled "Teaching Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Students" at Berklee College of Music.  These classes are designed for graduate students enrolled in the Master's of Music Education (Autism concentration) and Graduate Certificate in Music Education and Autism programs at Berklee. 

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