The AI-ready generation starts with
emotionally intelligent adults.
MY STORY
I started in a classroom watching kids' eyes light up when they realized they could do something they thought they couldn't.
2015-2017
You know that light bulb moment? The one where a child discovers their own capability? It is the One Thing I've loved most throughout my career. I've taught in high school and elementary classrooms, led an independent school as Head of School in Panamá, and came home to Annapolis to buy a preschool.
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In the midst of that, I created three characters: my friends Drip, Drop, and Drizzle. They teach kids that their feelings aren't the problem. Their feelings are the starting point. A rain shower starts with a few drips and drops before becoming a drizzle. That drizzle soaks into the ground and creates new growth. Learning is a similar process. Confidence too.
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Additionally, I've recently spent the last few years as the only educator inside a cross-industry AI learning community — working alongside professionals in biomedical, legal, finance, and tech. That experience made one thing very clear: the gap between what we're doing in schools and what kids will actually need isn't about technology. It's about foundation.
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Social-emotional skills. Executive functioning skills. An interest in learning. These skills create real AI readiness — and adults have to develop these capacities in themselves first.
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That's the work. Whether on a stage, in a classroom, or advising a school leader — it's always been the same work.
SPEAKING
Talks that challenge conventional thinking about AI in education — and give audiences a new starting point.
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Before the Algorithm
What Rain Teaches Us About Raising Resilient Kids
The story of Drip, Drop, and Drizzle — and why emotional intelligence is the most overlooked factor in preparing children for an AI-powered world. For parent groups, school communities, and early childhood audiences.
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The PATH from EI to AI:
Why Your School's AI Strategy Starts with You
Many schools are trying to adopt AI before they've built the leadership clarity to guide it. This talk reframes AI readiness as a human development challenge — not a technical one. For school leaders, boards, and education conferences.
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What We Do for Ourselves
We Model for
Students
Adults who develop their own emotional intelligence raise AI-ready kids. A talk about why the transformation has to start with us — and what that actually looks like in practice. For educators, administrators, and professional development days.
MEET THE CHARACTERS
Three characters who teach kids that feelings aren't the problem — feelings are the starting point. Through picture books, journals, and the DROPLETS™ curriculum, children build emotional intelligence, resilience, and the confidence to learn anything.
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Just as a rain shower starts with a few drips and drops before becoming a drizzle which soaks into the ground and creates new growth, so too learning and confidence follow a similar pattern.
Drip
Cautious, sensitive, and thoughtful.
The one who feels things first and needs a moment.
Drop
Bold, impulsive, and expressive.
The one who acts before thinking and learns from it
Drizzle
Steady, wise, and patient.
The one we all strive to be - and have inside of us.
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