Jill has a MA in Elementary Education with a reading licensure. She has taught 26 years as a classroom teacher and a reading interventionist. In addition, Jill has 15 years experience training educators at the school, district and state levels in literacy instruction, interventions, and family engagement. When not teaching, Jill and co-author Laura Beaver develop parent involvement children's books with embedded reading strategies, family engagement workshops and events that assist schools in engaging and sharing effective strategies for families to use at home with their children.