sarah-gardner

Sarah Gardner

Senior Instructional Designer

Sarah has dedicated her career to the understanding, implementation, and assessment. She has extensive experience in item development as well as with the creation and implementation of professional training. Sarah brings more than 15 years of experience as an educator to her work at CenterPoint, having taught pre-kindergarten through 8th grade, and also having served as a resource teacher working with special education and second language learners. In addition, Sarah worked as an ELA/Literacy specialist and served as director of innovative assessment for the Arizona Department of Education.

Sarah has a bachelor’s degree in education from Arizona State University and a Master’s in curriculum and technology from the University of Phoenix. A native of Michigan, she currently resides in Rockville, Md. Her favorite teacher, Ms. Zielinski, shared Sarah’s passion for reading and learning, and treated her and the rest of her sixth-grade classmates with respect.