POWARRful Teaching

PTS is going to NAME! Get ready New Orleans! We're bringing our love of data and literature to life for the 34th annual National Association of Multicultural Education Conference.

Most of you don't know that literature/language arts was my favorite subject in high school. I just happened to have fallen in love with science my freshman year of college. I'm obsessed with vocabulary, always have been since the days of learning phonics in elementary school - which was the topic of my dissertation. Science Teachers' Readiness for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction, to be exact.

Are y'all connecting the dots, here? To say that I'm excited about this would be an understatement!

Let’s stop pretending teachers are burning out because they “don’t have time.”

They have time—it’s just being stolen every single week by tasks that have nothing to do with quality instruction or real student outcomes.

📌 29 hours a week on emails, meetings, grading, and resource-hunting.
📌 No support for differentiation—just pressure to make it happen.
📌 “Engagement” reduced to test prep and compliance.

Teachers didn’t sign up for this. And leaders didn’t sign up to manage this level of stress either.

We can’t keep trying to fix this with another tech tool or a once-a-month PD.

We need a shift.

That’s why I created the Teach Smarter, Not Harder Summer Intensives—four days to reset how teaching actually works. We focus on:

🧠 AI that saves time without losing quality
🎯 Differentiation that doesn’t bury you in work
🔥 Engagement strategies that actually reach students

📩 Comment “SMARTER” or message me if you’re ready to stop the cycle—for yourself or your staff.

Here’s the number school leaders can’t afford to ignore:

📉 Teachers are spending up to 29 hours a week doing things that have nothing to do with actual instruction.
That’s grading, emails, meetings, paperwork, and hunting down resources just to have something that kinda works.

All that time—and we’re still seeing burnout, disengaged students, and teachers walking away mid-year.

Here’s the truth:
⏳ Time is your teachers’ most valuable resource.
And right now? They’re spending it on everything except what really matters.
That’s exactly why I created the Teach Smarter, Not Harder Summer Intensives.

We help educators:
✅ Use AI to automate the repetitive work
✅ Apply Differentiated Instruction that’s actually doable
✅ Build experiential learning that keeps students engaged and teachers energized

So if you're tired of watching your team run themselves into the ground trying to “do it all”—stop handing them another to-do list.
Start giving them tools.

📩 Comment below or message me “SMART” and I’ll send you the details.