About me
Sarah is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has been working in the field of special education for 18 years. Thinking she wanted to go on to law school to work in child advocacy, Sarah obtained her B.A. in History (Minor: Political Science) from Texas A&M University, College Station. While working as a substitute teacher in a classroom for students with autism she found a new passion. Upon graduation, Sarah began her career working in Community ISD as a special education teacher and shortly thereafter earned her M.Ed in Special Education at Texas A&M University, Commerce. There she was first exposed to applied behavior analysis and Sarah found her calling. Sarah worked as a self-contained behavior intervention teacher for 5 years while completing her Graduate Academic Certification in applied behavior analysis from University of North Texas, and was awarded her BCBA license in 2013.
After working in a private therapy center for a year, Sarah returned to public education to work as BCBA – Behavior Specialist for International Leadership of Texas. For the past 11 years there she has dedicated her time and effort to advancing the principles of ABA to broader and broader ranges of settings and students, whether in a large group setting through professional development for district and campus level administration and staff, or through one on one relationships with teachers, parents and students. Sarah used her skills to help develop ILTexas' special education department, and worked as Director of Behavior before creating and developing ILTexas' MTSS processes and procedures. Through Multi-Tiered Systems of Support she is able to help general education, special education students as well as campuses and the charter itself reach their goals.
