Jerome’s diverse experiences as an academic intervention specialist, Orton Gillingham learning and development trainer and education leader include supporting students from early childhood to adulthood with the following learning profiles: dyslexia, dysgraphia, emergent multilinguals, ADHD, autism spectrum, those with significant learning loss, as well as gifted and twice exceptional.

Jerome is a lifelong learner with an inquisitive approach to education. Acquired during her sixteen years in education, she possesses a deep knowledge of human social emotional development alongside the Orton-Gillingham approach. Jerome effortlessly connects with students, families and educators-in-training. After overcoming personal and family hurdles of dyslexia through private literacy sessions and hard work, Jerome was able to excel! This later led to another big step in her education career, her masters in English immersion. Since then she has encountered a wide variety of opportunities from which she draws to meet the needs of students, families and educators. Jerome’s resolve to see students, families and schools flourish inspires within her a deep desire to provide guidance in student and educator needs, in understanding the implementation science of literacy best practices, supporting student and educator strengths.

This is accomplished by constructing a safe inclusive environment, ensuring students and educators are able to focus on best practices for growth. Establishing quality implementation early on, allows all to benefit from space for fully instructional growth. Jerome is empowering all to reach new levels of mastery utilizing exceptional compassion alongside the rigor of the multimodal components of the ever evolving Orton Gillingham approach. Advocating for and supporting students and educators across a variety of communities is her lifelong passion.