Meet the Sterling Literacy Consulting team
Our team brings experience as classroom teachers, instructional coaches, school leaders and state literacy leaders. We work with schools and districts nationwide, connecting literacy planning with professional learning and classroom support.
Dr. Charles Dana Hall
Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer
Focus: Strategic literacy planning, curriculum development and policy implementation.
Dr. Hall has worked as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, district coordinator and Colorado state literacy specialist. His work connects state and district literacy decisions with the instruction students receive in classrooms.
As Colorado’s state literacy specialist, he directed a collaboration of more than 100 educators to develop sample curricula based on the Common Core State Standards. He also helped lead the development of Colorado’s Strategic Literacy Plan in 2012.
Dr. Krista Morrison
Director of Literacy & Learning
Focus: Disciplinary literacy, secondary literacy coaching and professional learning.
Dr. Morrison has worked as an English teacher, school and district literacy coach, and literacy consultant. She helps district leaders plan professional learning with implementation benchmarks and support for teachers and administrators as they put new learning into practice.
Her expertise includes English language arts curriculum, assessment, standards alignment, Response to Intervention, and literacy instruction in STEM settings. Her doctoral research examined disciplinary literacy in secondary science.
She holds a doctorate in education from the University of Colorado in Leadership in Educational Equity, with an emphasis on instructional leadership. She is a Denver Writing Project fellow and co-author of ACT 36: Aiming for the Perfect Score.
Josh Fallin
Literacy Consultant: School Turnaround Specialist
Focus: School turnaround, science of reading professional learning and using student data to guide instruction.
Josh brings experience as an educator and school administrator in Title I schools. His work includes literacy development, instructional resources and support for teachers as they apply evidence-based teaching strategies.
He has led professional development on the science of reading, classroom management, student engagement and literacy interventions. His background includes certifications in Elementary Education, Special Education and Linguistically Diverse Education, along with training through LETRS, Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling.
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Natalie Rodriguez
Literacy Consultant: Classroom Coach
Focus: Classroom coaching, teacher feedback and research-based literacy instruction.
Natalie has worked as a classroom teacher, Gifted and Talented coordinator and building instructional coach. As an instructional coach, she worked alongside Sterling Literacy Consulting to provide literacy professional development informed by student data.
Her coaching includes working one on one with teachers to apply reading research to classroom instruction. She earned her master’s degree in educational administration from Grand Canyon University in 2019, with practicum work focused on classroom observation and teacher feedback.