Consulting Services

Consulting services:

Reach out if you want to expand your school/organization’s focus on culturally relevant teaching practices.

  • Carey has over 25 years of experience in education and has focused the last ten years of her life on culturally relevant practices.

    If you want to expand your school or organizations' focus on culturally relevant practices, Carey can help you craft your school's mission, vision and values.

  • What are you looking for in your school or organization? Carey's outside the box thinking and ability to look strategically at the big picture will support your organization! Together, we can create a plan and Carey can support you in executing this vision!

In her personal life, Carey is a busy parent with her husband of over twenty years, Lou Dzierzak, who is also a writer. She has four children and four fur babies! She keeps busy with family walks and time with her amazing friends!

She is a compassionate educator focused on bringing peace education resources, lessons and strategies to schools across the world.

  • She has been involved in education for over twenty years working in diverse settings.  Carey has served in many roles over the years; she has been a Reading Recovery teacher, first grade teacher, literacy coach, instructional coach and leader, Elementary Curriculum Director, Assistant Principal and a Principal and Lecturer in Higher Education. Through these various roles, Carey has remained committed to culturally relevant peace education and strong literacy instruction.


Her dissertation at Hamline University focused on embedding culturally relevant teaching practices into school structures. 

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