Erin McNeill is a Professional Learning Specialist for Keep Indiana Learning, a Central Indiana Educational Service Center department. She spent eighteen years in the classroom as an English Language Arts and English as a New Language teacher and coordinator, and two years as the co-chair of English Education at Indiana University, where she continues to teach language and literacy courses every semester. Erin currently works with teachers, coaches, schools, and districts on: implementing the Science of Reading into new or existing curricula, creating asset-based and culturally responsive literacy experiences and materials, and leveraging data-driven instruction to meet the needs of all students, and strengthening literacy and language skills and pedagogies.