Certified Reading Specialist &
Executive Functioning Coach
Dedicated to the Learning of All Children
Erin is a dedicated educational leader and tireless advocate for learning differences awareness, social justice, and collaborative, integrated work. Her expertise drives improved outcomes for students, teachers, schools, and families.
Education
Columbia University 2014
M.A. Reading Specialist
North Park University 2010
B.A. English Literature & Creative Writing
Certifications
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Dyslexia Practitioner certified by IDA
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IMSLEC® Therapist
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EF Specialists® Certified Coach
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Wilson Language Training® Certified
BIO
Once a “closeted” ADHD student herself, Erin Carroll is now a loud, proud advocate and teacher of all varieties of neurodivergent children. With over twelve years in the field, Erin holds unique expertise in literacy, math, and executive functioning intervention; with her work steeped in a home-grown approach that she calls Responsive Integrated Teaching™. Erin believes that children’s strengths and the construction of emotional safety must be prioritized before deep skill learning can occur.
Educated at Columbia University, Erin earned her Master’s degree as a clinical reading specialist within Columbia University's Teachers College Health and Behavioral Sciences program. Despite the challenges of being an ADHD student at an Ivy League institution, Erin completed the program top of her class in just over a year and a half. While studying, starting her private practice, and working in Columbia’s reading clinic, Erin was awarded the prestigious James L. Neff Reading Specialist Fellowship for excellent literacy interventions for elementary school children, along with the Charlotte M. Hamill Scholarship for helping students with learning disabilities improve their literacy skills.
Erin’s training at Columbia led her to work in specialized schools for children with language-based learning disabilities for over a decade. While teaching, mentoring other teachers, and working to improve school-wide curricula, Erin maintained her private practice and co-authored three decodable chapter books aligned to the early reading program Preventing Academic Failure.
Erin’s clients, co-workers, and students often refer to her as Mary Poppins because of the way she can connect with children, reestablish self-confidence, and make seemingly magical changes in the trajectory of the lives of each of the children she works with. She also seems to always have an abundance of engaging items and learning tools in her bag.
Prior to her graduate studies, Erin received her English as a Foreign Language (EFL) certification and her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature. She spent over a year in South America, much of it helping to establish a women's literacy project with a nonprofit in Sucre, Bolivia. Her work in Bolivia fueled her passion for literacy as a means of freedom and autonomy, and eventually led her to pursue her studies at Columbia. Erin's unique background and experience in education, including teaching abroad and working as a teacher of dance, outdoor education, and experiential learning, continue to inform her practice.
Erin now lives in South Minneapolis, where she runs her private practice and consulting business full-time. When she's not busy with her two incredible children and brilliant wife, Dr. Alanna Carroll, Erin focuses on her work as a learning specialist, executive functioning coach, and educational consultant. In her free time, Erin enjoys writing poetry, meditating, and learning to play basketball.
SERVICES
Ways to Work with Erin
Erin is deeply dedicated to the unique needs of each child and family she works with. She only takes on 1-2 comprehensive clients per calendar year and is limited to 5 intensive clients per school year for 1:1 ongoing tutoring work. You can join the waitlist for either service, but please expect 12-18 months of wait time.
If you need support now, Erin offers virtual tutoring, executive functioning coaching, and parent coaching on weekday mornings and early afternoons (CST). Schedule a consultation call to connect with Erin and see what is possible.
To extend her impact, Erin is also establishing her non-profit, grrit.y kids, as well as providing philanthropic consultation for businesses and organizations interested in literacy initiatives. Her upcoming book, That's Enough, is being written with the hope of reaching more parents, caregivers, and educators globally.
Resources
There is so much information out there. It is truly impossible to read and absorb all of the literature, podcasts, documentaries, websites, and research articles available to us at the bottom of a single Google search rabbit hole.
The tools and organizations listed here are digestible and offer opportunities for different types of parents and teacher-learners.