Precision Learning Coordinator While earning a degree in elementary and special education from Marshall University, Sarah began working with students with autism in 2001. Since obtaining her teaching license in 2006, she has taught students in school, clinic, and community settings. Throughout her career, Sarah has developed strategies for increasing flexibility in students for whom rigid thinking is a barrier to learning. She has specialized in working with students in the upper elementary and middle school age ranges and in adapting academic content to make it accessible to a wider variety of students. Sarah completed Morningside’s Teachers Academy in Seattle, WA in 2017, and became a precision teacher. Sarah is a four-time author of books for middle grade readers and is a Pen/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship award recipient. Two of her books have been cited as “best of the best” by the Young Adult Library Services Association (Free Verse) and Junior Library Guild (Free Verse and Ashes to Asheville).