Gwen Sharp

I've been in education for 26 years, my entire adult career. After graduating from college, I knew I wanted to be an educator. I had the heart to help, and my help was in reading to try to get kids who couldn't read, to be able to read. That's been my journey ever since. I've moved up from being a teacher, to an instructional coach, to a reading coach, from a dyslexia teacher to an interventionist, to the position that I'm in now, where I'm actually covering the district. It's all to help grow readers. If I can touch one kid, and they become a better reader, and they grow from one year to the next, then I've done my job. I've been in my current position for about 6 years, and my most notable achievement is increasing the district that I'm in from 16% to 32%. I've doubled the amount since I've been in this position, and that's a really proud moment for me.