Jean is a national expert and leader in school special education and speech-language pathology service delivery. She is passionate about creating systems and practices in schools that focus on providing educationally relevant services by linking intervention to school success and partnering with our education partners and students’ families. To Jean, Collaboration is Essential!  She is author of Speech-Language Pathology in Schools: Organization and Service Delivery (6^th Ed., 2021, Plural Publishing) and Pediatric Brain Injury: Proactive Intervention (3^rd Ed, 2021, Plural Publishing). She has created numerous parent-friendly resources including Let’s Talk Today! A Calendar of Daily Activities for Teaching Language Skills at Home! and Let’s Celebrate and Learn Each Day!. Jean provides professional development seminars and consults with schools, organizations, and businesses that work with schools to improve quality of services. Her career path has been wide and varied, including: school-based SLP; university clinical supervisor, professor, department chair, associate provost, dean, and VP of Therapy Programs and Quality for a national education solutions company.