About Your Instructor – Yamiley Jean-Simon

Uniquely Qualified Instructor

Yamiley Jean-Simon is an experienced co-teacher and presenter. Yamiley first started utilizing the Marilyn Friend co-teaching strategies in inclusive classrooms as a special education teacher. She experienced such effective results that she returned for more training in order to become the district's co-teaching trainer. Over the years, she has collected a wide variety of strategies and tactics to leverage the co-teaching partnership in a wide variety of classrooms. As a Special Education leader, Yamiley enjoyed helping teachers learn her classroom tested strategic supports tailored for student growth and success. She is also the author of Strengthening Your CO-TEACHING: Practical Ideas for Improving Student Success, the comprehensive digital resource handbook each participant will receive at the seminar.

What Your Colleagues Say About Your Presenter

"This was a wonderful seminar! Yamiley's knowledge and teaching style made this a very enjoyable, engaging presentation."
– Amanda Johnson, SpEd Teacher

"Yamiley does a fantastic job of conveying and relating the information of co-teaching practices to real-life applications."
– Chris Arguello, Education Specialist

"Lots of great content, access to resources, and strategies that we can use."
– Meredith Smith, SpEd Teacher

"Yamiley did a great job building in interactive and reflective pieces into this training. She was clearly knowledgeable and the videos were a fantastic way to learn together."
– Mindy Schroeder, SpEd Coach

"Not only encouraging but eye-opening. Gave me and my co-teacher more tools and strategies to use. And I really enjoyed it! Thank you."
– Alicia Garza, Deaf/Hard of Hearing Specialist

"This training was very informative and has changed the way I think about co-teaching!"
– Tanner Lopes, English Teacher