Who is Joy Brooke?
Dr. Joy Brooke is the first and most important teacher of her seventeen-year-old son and sixteen year-old daughter. She and her family reside in Big Sky, Montana. Snow in the mountains, trout in the river, along with family ties pulled the Brooke family to Montana where her husband grew up.
Joy believes in progressive education including inquiry learning, language learning programs, social and emotional learning, the integral part of the parent's role in the journey, rich literacy writing and reading workshops, increasing student choice and agency, inclusivity rooted in social justice education, trauma informed learning, restorative practices, passion project based learning, service learning, integration of the arts, and implementing current research based practices in science, math and technology to increase student achievement, joy, and purpose.
Joy is currently a consultant and the MTSS Coordinator at Big Sky School District for Ophir Middle School and Lone Peak High School. Before Big Sky, Dr. Brooke was an Instructional Coach at C.S. Porter Middle School with the Missoula County Public Schools. She has worked with all age groups in various forms, but is currently loving her role learning beside students in 6- 12. She adores the students and staff and this amazing learning community.
Joy consults with other schools and organizations providing personalized professional development opportunities for educators and also with families on helping parents/caregivers to help their own children to find success.
Before moving to Missoula, Joy was a Principal in a small town in Montana, and before that an Associate Principal at Academia Cotopaxi American International School IB School in Quito, Ecuador. Joy, her husband, and her two children went for an adventure in the great country of Ecuador and found it along with many memorable moments traveling all over South America learning the Spanish language and falling in love with the various cultures as well as gaining lifetime friendships.
Before Quito, the Brooke family lived in Kirkland, Washington, where she taught kindergarten, first, and second grade and consulted with private, public, parent organizations, and non-profit organizations on various topics. This is where Ask Mrs. Brooke was born. Ask Mrs. Brooke is a publication that helps give parents and educators research based answers to their questions to help empower them to make good decisions regarding student learning.
And long before that Joy lived and grew up jumping waves, riding bikes, and fishing down at the mooring basin in a small town on the northern Oregon coast.
She holds a Doctorate of Education Leadership from Seattle University. She studied leadership in her doctoral program analyzing her own self as leader, building successful organizational teams and systems, and global leadership to create a more just and peaceful world.
She also holds a M.A. in Educational Policy and Management and a B.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Oregon.
She is a proud National Board Certified teacher in Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood.
She also has endorsements/certifications in:
K-12 Special Education
K-12 English Language Learners
K-8 Reading
K-12 Administrative/Principal
In her over 20 years in education, Joy has had a tremendous and diverse experience in leadership in the international world of education, as a school administrator, an expert blogger for the Committee for Children, a columnist for the Kirkland Reporter, an education consultant, a chair as a non-profit, and above all a classroom teacher.
Joy has studied at the Teacher's Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, in Sweden at Uppsala University, and been part of the first inclusion study group in Reggio Emilia, Italy. She has presented at many national and international conferences. She has lived in Germany, Spain, and Ecuador and knows travel and living among other cultures is one of the greatest learning journeys of all.
Along with her passion for strong school leadership and building systems to help all children reach their potential, she is also dedicated to ending illiteracy. She helped create one of the first public lending libraries in Ecuador, the first little free library in all of Ecuador, is involved with First Book, a non-profit, that gives books to children who need them most, and a huge advocate for PlanetRead, which uses subtitling on TV to increase reading achievement and advocate for the Deaf community (the topic of her dissertation research).
Most of all, Joy is passionate about helping to inform, inspire, and empower families and educators to help ALL children from every background achieve their dreams.
Joy believes in progressive education including inquiry learning, language learning programs, social and emotional learning, the integral part of the parent's role in the journey, rich literacy writing and reading workshops, increasing student choice and agency, inclusivity rooted in social justice education, trauma informed learning, restorative practices, passion project based learning, service learning, integration of the arts, and implementing current research based practices in science, math and technology to increase student achievement, joy, and purpose.
Joy is currently a consultant and the MTSS Coordinator at Big Sky School District for Ophir Middle School and Lone Peak High School. Before Big Sky, Dr. Brooke was an Instructional Coach at C.S. Porter Middle School with the Missoula County Public Schools. She has worked with all age groups in various forms, but is currently loving her role learning beside students in 6- 12. She adores the students and staff and this amazing learning community.
Joy consults with other schools and organizations providing personalized professional development opportunities for educators and also with families on helping parents/caregivers to help their own children to find success.
Before moving to Missoula, Joy was a Principal in a small town in Montana, and before that an Associate Principal at Academia Cotopaxi American International School IB School in Quito, Ecuador. Joy, her husband, and her two children went for an adventure in the great country of Ecuador and found it along with many memorable moments traveling all over South America learning the Spanish language and falling in love with the various cultures as well as gaining lifetime friendships.
Before Quito, the Brooke family lived in Kirkland, Washington, where she taught kindergarten, first, and second grade and consulted with private, public, parent organizations, and non-profit organizations on various topics. This is where Ask Mrs. Brooke was born. Ask Mrs. Brooke is a publication that helps give parents and educators research based answers to their questions to help empower them to make good decisions regarding student learning.
And long before that Joy lived and grew up jumping waves, riding bikes, and fishing down at the mooring basin in a small town on the northern Oregon coast.
She holds a Doctorate of Education Leadership from Seattle University. She studied leadership in her doctoral program analyzing her own self as leader, building successful organizational teams and systems, and global leadership to create a more just and peaceful world.
She also holds a M.A. in Educational Policy and Management and a B.A. in Educational Studies from the University of Oregon.
She is a proud National Board Certified teacher in Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood.
She also has endorsements/certifications in:
K-12 Special Education
K-12 English Language Learners
K-8 Reading
K-12 Administrative/Principal
In her over 20 years in education, Joy has had a tremendous and diverse experience in leadership in the international world of education, as a school administrator, an expert blogger for the Committee for Children, a columnist for the Kirkland Reporter, an education consultant, a chair as a non-profit, and above all a classroom teacher.
Joy has studied at the Teacher's Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, in Sweden at Uppsala University, and been part of the first inclusion study group in Reggio Emilia, Italy. She has presented at many national and international conferences. She has lived in Germany, Spain, and Ecuador and knows travel and living among other cultures is one of the greatest learning journeys of all.
Along with her passion for strong school leadership and building systems to help all children reach their potential, she is also dedicated to ending illiteracy. She helped create one of the first public lending libraries in Ecuador, the first little free library in all of Ecuador, is involved with First Book, a non-profit, that gives books to children who need them most, and a huge advocate for PlanetRead, which uses subtitling on TV to increase reading achievement and advocate for the Deaf community (the topic of her dissertation research).
Most of all, Joy is passionate about helping to inform, inspire, and empower families and educators to help ALL children from every background achieve their dreams.
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