About Dr. Martha Jay

• Dr. Martha M. Joseph, formerly Watts, is a professional development strategist who provides face-to-face, virtual, or hybrid interactive professional development services to public, private,  parochial, and pre-schools. She provides job-embedded one-on-one coaching, and small and whole group sessions for administrators, educators, students, and parents on a school needs basis. She guides schools on identifying and implementing interventions or initiatives for student and school success. She utilizes her  ACE IT model to support schools labeled in-need of Improvement, or must implement programs successfully to prevent failure or loss of funding. Her program implementation technique focuses on Buy-in as one of the major ingredients to drive goal setting, evaluation, implementation and  reporting results.  Dr. Joseph continues to build on her success with larger schools and utilizes it to support schools with limited resources in the areas of budgeting, scheduling, and staffing--constraints often associated with small and non-public schools. 
• Dr. Joseph commits to providing compatible quality service to her clients for a fragment of the cost. 
• Her degrees in Teacher Training, and Educational Leadership along with her years in the classroom both as teacher and then as Literacy Coach make her a well-rounded educator with knowledge to impact educators in any setting. As educational consultant she responds to and wins Federal and State funded RFQs (Requests for quotes) bid allocated to public and non-public schools.
• As a content and curriculum developer, Dr. Joseph produces educational resources that encourage students to interact with reading on grade level and then make oral or written evidence-based responses that build writing confidence and improve writing performance in students and schools. She is best known for the Writing to Respond (WTR) process, an approach she created to develop critical thinking from PreK-2 and for developing text-based writing from Grades 3-12. She published workbooks that serve as progress monitoring tools while utilizing the approach.
• Dr. Martha M Joseph also produces non-fiction children's chapter books that teach character development. As a content developer, she commits to producing writing that meets her clients' needs. 
• Her creative writing degree from Full Sail positions her to write more contemporary forms such as podcasting and social media and  positions herself to do the same for others.
• She serves as a communication instructor with one of Florida's top STEM universities. She hosts a half hour radio show which she converts to her weekly podcast; L'Habitille: Habits that Count!

I am a storyteller, but my most lucrative talent is writing. I write and publish children's fiction, and educational resources on the teaching of writing. 

Teacher training is my super power.