Because every student deserves a gifted education.

I am a secondary English Language Arts and Multilingual Learner teacher with over a decade of experience working in 7-12 classrooms. I know how challenging it can be to provide rigorous, engaging, and accessible resources to meet the needs of ALL of your students. I believe that every student should be able to find meaning and growth in my classroom, but I also know how much work that can be, especially in language arts.

My goal is to create ready-to-implement resources that are project and inquiry-based, have multiple points of entry, and include scaffolds to help all learners access rigorous and rewarding learning experiences.

Welcome!

Over my decade-long career in education, it has become clear to me that our Puritanical, factory-based education model is long overdue for an overhaul. It is time to serve our historically underserved students. It’s time to teach for equity and teach for justice.

I created the Letters and Ink Blog first as a place to share my philosophy because I was constantly gaslit and shut down by my colleagues and administration when I tried to advocate for my students. Now, it serves as validation for the thousands of teachers who experience the same pushback when you fight for your students.

I believe that the school system that we work in was not made for every student. I believe that so many historically underserved students still don’t have equitable access to rigorous education and learning opportunities. The way we run schools and the way we teach is based on compliance and assimilation to one set of values, and it hurts more students than it serves.

That’s the why behind Letters and Ink. This is your home for strategies and resources to empower you to teach for equity and teach for justice. Together, we’ll transform education – one letter at a time.