KIDS LIFE COACH | EDUCATOR | AUTHOR | SPEAKER
Education Solutions for Career-Connected Opportunities
Ashley has worked with hundreds of children and families from a variety of backgrounds in the past 16 years. Her previous experiences include serving as a Family Support Specialist in San Francisco Unified School District; a Case Manager and Program Coordinator at Hunters Point Family; a Children's Ministry Director at Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco; and an Afterschool Teacher and Tutor at Alice Fong Yu Elementary.
She is a San Francisco native with Garifuna roots in Trujillo, Honduras. She is an optimist; an artist; a proud Alumna of Howard University and Brown University; and an enthusiastic educator at Meadows Livingstone School in San Francisco, CA.
Ashley is a brain-based learning coach for children and youth of color. She specializes in preparing children and adolescents for career-connected opportunities. Her approach integrates sensory awareness with movement and pattern recognition to optimize academic success. In doing so, her students develop the attributes and transferrable skills for better life outcomes.
With her coaching, students develop the core developmental skills to improve their beliefs and behaviors about their abilities. Her interventions support neurodivergent and highly sensitive young people strengthen memory, attentional control, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and decision making capabilities. Students access grade-level coursework and internships of their choice with her coaching. She incorporates drawing as a framework for heightening academic achievement and preparing students for STEAM and corporate careers.
At the heart of Ashley’s approach is a belief in the power of purposeful play — a dynamic, joyful way to spark multidimensional growth. When children flourish, so do the families, schools, and communities around them.
Problems Ashley Solves With Families, Educators, and Organizations
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Ashley's private mastermind-level high-school aged students who entered middle school, high school, and college with a better understanding of their attributes, skills, and tools for post-secondary success
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Students in elementary school and middle school who complete and stay ahead of their course work despite learning differences and academic giftedness with Ashley's individualized instruction and care
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Students who struggled with emotional agility during rigorous school assignments and less-preferred housework-related assignments, and demonstrated stronger emotional self-regulation abilities after applying Ashley's tools with their teachers and families
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of students who increase their attentional control, emotional self-regulation, and hand-eye coordination for completing math- and science-related coursework with Ashley's instruction and care
"Ashley's teaching style is refreshing. I appreciate her teaching us about brain health and not just trauma." - H. B., San Francisco Expanded Learning Teacher
"I appreciate learning how search for meaning occurs through patterning, implying that the brain is designed to perceive and generate patterns." - Burlingame School District Middle School Teacher
"Ashley is very engaging. I appreciate slowing down movement for exuberant high-energy children." - Burlingame School District Elementary School Teacher
Ashley was featured on KQED Public Radio to share a perspective on who she is and how her parents inspired her career.
Listen at https://www.kqed.org/perspectives
The 5-Day Challenge addresses emotions and behavior challenges in a fun and engaging way. It is a self-awareness plan designed for teachers and families to use together with students. It blends executive functioning, emotional awareness, and career-connected learning while helping students practice working through timed, less-preferred, or rigorous tasks like schoolwork and housework.
This plan accompanies the content of A-Maze-In Me, which is designed to support students in optimizing their growth mindsets and socioemotional abilities.
Raising Resilient Learners: Self-Awareness Tools for Kids and Adults
Many of the behaviors we see are related to a lack of self-awareness. This resource helps parents and educators build the skills that are needed for behavior improvement. It is my latest compilation of verbal and nonverbal responses you can implement today to help your children build the adaptability, courage, persistence, and decisiveness they need to thrive.
Adrienne R., Martinez, CA, Mother of 2
Patrice H. San Francisco, CA, Mother of 2
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