Michael “Doc” Moates, Ed.D.
Journalist. Educator. Doctor of Education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. And now, a nursing student. Each was a choice, from White House press briefings to college classrooms, from clinical practice to policy tables, from open-source code to a hospital floor. Six disciplines, one stubborn intention.
The Short Version
Journalist. Communications director. Doctor of education. Clinician and behavior analyst. Software engineer. College educator. And now, a nursing student. The through-line was never a job title, it was curiosity, and a need to be useful.
Writing
The phrase "science of reading" gets used to sell curricula and win policy fights. Underneath the branding is a real body of evidence about how children learn to read, and it deserves a careful look.
Most nonprofits pour their energy into recruiting new volunteers while quietly losing the ones they already have. Retention is cheaper, more sustainable, and more often overlooked.
Procrastination is rarely about laziness or poor time management. It is a way of coping with difficult emotions in the moment, and understanding that changes how we address it.
If your work lives where a few different worlds overlap, we'll probably get along.
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