Meet Lily

Lily is a NYC-based educator, speaker, and consultant. She supports teachers and school leaders around the country with literacy learning and social and emotional learning (SEL). How kids feel at school is inextricably linked to how they do at school, and Lily helps educators cultivate connected classroom communities in which students feel known, valued, and ready to take the risks that lead to meaningful learning.

Lily presents regularly at national conferences, and her writing about education has been published in The Washington Post and Edutopia, among other publications. Her first book, The Words That Shape Us: The Science-Based Power of Teacher Language, is forthcoming from Scholastic.

For nearly ten years, Lily taught elementary school in both public and independent settings. She’s a third grade teacher at heart, and the best part of visiting schools is listening to and learning from the brilliant, brave children she meets.