Amie Davenport, M.Ed., has more than 23 years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning specialist. Recently serving as an Inclusive Services and Section 504 Practices consultant within Region 10 ESC, Mrs. Davenport has served as a general education teacher, special education teacher, literacy interventionist, academic specialist, assistant principal, principal, and English language arts program director. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Cappella University. As a Master Reading Teacher, Amie is a certified Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator trained in Multisensory Teaching Approach and Wilson Reading System. Amie has taught children identified with dyslexia, specific learning disabilities, and those who struggle in language arts to read, write, and spell. Her professional interests include academic assessment and interventions, equity in education, teacher training, global literacy, and inclusive education for all students with disabilities. Since her child struggled to read and write in the first grade, Amie became passionate about early identification of learning disabilities, providing staff development for other educators on identification, the referral process, intervention with direct, explicit, multisensory instruction, and other resources. Most recently, Amie has focused on providing professional development on reading instruction to striving readers at the secondary level to enable them to become successful adults. When not working with educators and students, Amie likes to travel and explore the great outdoors with her husband and two daughters.