Frompaperworktopossibility.
The story of a Black special educator from Connecticut — and the platform built from everything he kept seeing between the binder and the bus.
It started with a binder no one had time to read.
Every student arrived with a story compressed into paperwork — IEPs, evaluations, transition pages — sitting in a binder that families and educators didn't have time to decode.
I built this from the chair I sat in — between the family and the binder.
I'm a Black special educator from Connecticut. MBA, then MAT in Special Education K–12. New Haven Public Schools. Hamden. Student teaching across grade bands. Every meeting, the same gap — paperwork on the table, possibility just out of reach.
Transition Forward is the thing I kept reaching for and never had.
A path traced through Connecticut classrooms.
- Then
MBA
Systems thinking — built for orgs, not students.
- →
MAT · Special Education K–12
From boardrooms to IEP meetings.
- →
Student teaching
Across grade bands, across CT.
- →
New Haven Public Schools
Inside the binder. Inside the meeting.
- →
Hamden Public Schools
Same patterns. Same gaps. Same families fighting through them.
- Now
Transition Forward begins
A pathway, not a packet.
Scattered documents become a clear pathway.
