About

Sarah's expertise stems from her 25 year career in education. Her journey began teaching middle and high school science for a decade in Denver. She became an Assistant Principal and quickly realized she had more to learn so she attended the school leadership program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After graduate school, Sarah worked in Denver Public Schools as a Peer Observer and then found a home with the educational nonprofit, Engaging Schools. She spent the next decade of her career supporting schools and districts to embed social emotional learning, improve schoolwide climate and culture, develop systemic changes to discipline, and increase effective teacher practice.   

Sarah collaborated with co-authors Carol Miller-Lieber, Donna Mehle, and Michele Tissiere to publish Engaged Classrooms: The Art and Craft of Reaching and Teaching All Learners, published in 2019 by Engaging Schools. She also was a contributing author on the white paper, Embedding Social and Emotional Learning in High School Classrooms, released in 2019. She was the recipient of the Mile High Teacher Award in 2007, has a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1998)  and a Master’s Degree in School Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (2011). Sarah lives in Durango, CO with her husband and two daughters.