DJ Scruggs

​Deb Scruggs (aka DJ), President and Lead Consultant of Kokopelli Educational Consulting, Inc., has worked in education for almost three decades, as an elementary teacher and a math consultant. She has worked for numerous public and BIE-funded schools and districts throughout the New Mexico, the Southwest and the Nation through National Science Foundation grants, School Improvement grants, and projects focusing on rural and high poverty schools. As former teacher, she conducts highly effective mathematics workshops and onsite coaching support to help teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators better understand mathematics and the best practices that significantly and consistently increase student achievement. She understands the impact that skills, concepts, language, pedagogy and assessment have in student learning; and her highly-energetic and humorous professional development sessions model the same best practices that she promote by immersing teachers in experiences that clearly label engagement strategies, vocabulary development strategies, and rigorous mathematical content.