MEET OUR TEAM
The 3H3 team is comprised of highly qualified early childhood, elementary, secondary, and high school educators, as well as education leaders, with over 100 years of combined teaching experience, both domestically and internationally. Our consultants have extensive experience in diverse demographics and specialize in various areas of expertise.
We prioritize carefully matching our consultants with the unique needs and goals of your district. Our motto, "We Are All About Progression," reflects our unwavering commitment to helping move the needle towards desired educational outcomes, regardless of any perceived challenges.
We take pride in our roots, having arisen from marginalized communities, and we are dedicated to empowering marginalized communities through our work. Our focus on results and commitment to equity drive everything we do.
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Na'sia Smith
Na’sia Smith is a veteran middle school
educator, published author, and success coach for parents
and teens. Her mission is to support parents in raising healthy, healed, and happy children. With a comprehensive and holistic approach to life, Na'sia empowers parents to eliminate limiting beliefs, break destructive cycles, and implement nourishing habits that foster overall well-being. She firmly believes in the transformative power of teaching with love and logic, understanding that a balanced approach can have a profound impact on a child's development. Her educational journey began as a dedicated teacher's assistant while pursuing her studies at Rutger's University. It was during this time that she discovered her innate passion for mentoring children, leading her to embark on a transformative Study Abroad program in Costa Rica, where she provided translation services for Spanish to English in grades K-12. This experience ignited her love for teaching, which she has pursued for the past 20 years, with 14 years dedicated to teaching in various inner-city districts and 6 years currently serving in a rural district.
Throughout her career, Na'sia has continuously pursued personal and professional growth, earning a Master's Degree in Education Technology and certifications in holistic life and functional medicine health coaching. She is also an author, having published a suite of Social Emotional products known as Open Up™, which are carefully designed to cultivate positive relationships between children and the trusted adults in their lives. Her publications include Open Up™, the relationship playing card deck, Open Up™, the Student Journal, and Open Up™, the Social-Emotional Writing curriculum.
Beyond her work as an educator, consultant, and author, Na'sia serves as a mentor for middle school Black girls through her involvement with the Project Diva organization and her private practice as a self-love mentor.
She is deeply committed to enacting change in the field of education, striving to reform its culture in a meaningful way that nurtures the growth of young individuals and prepares them to thrive in our rapidly changing world. It is this unwavering dedication that inspired the recent establishment of the 3H3 Education Consulting Firm, through which Na'sia continues to make a lasting impact and contribute to the transformation of education by offering workshops, professional development, coaching, and educational products to school
districts.
Takiyah Jackson
Takiyah Kai Jackson is an educator who believes in the power of literacy to liberate. She discovered her love for education during the summer of 2002 while studying abroad as a Rutgers University student. Volunteering at a local school in Limon, Costa Rica, Takiyah realized how much loved being an educator.
Since then, she has been a classroom teacher, written ELA curriculum, supported the development of curriculum resources, trained teachers across the country as an Education Consultant and ELA Curriculum Specialist with Pearson, and served school leadership teams as a Literacy Coach and Dean of Curriculum and Instruction. She studied Literacy Education with a focus in Reading at New Jersey City University and Bank Street School of Education.
Takiyah is currently serving the South LA community as a Regional ELA Academic Program Manager where she manages the ELA curriculum and institution of eleven K-12 schools. When not supporting and impacting teaching and learning, she can be found writing poetry and prose, facilitating online creative writing workshops with the New York Writers Coalition, grounding herself in nature or dancing off-beat to Beyoncé. Her ultimate goal in life, love, and literacy is to empower young folx to become citizen scholars who have the tools to liberate us all towards a more just, creative and intellectual society.
Dr. Rolandria Justice
Rolandria Justice started her career in education as a middle school teacher in Newark, NJ. After several years in the classroom, she realized how vital effective school leadership is to the success of the school and earned her Master’s in Educational Leadership. She became an administrator supporting the development of positive learning environments and systems to increase achievement in schools in Harlem and Brooklyn. Her passion for educational leadership and entrepreneurial spirit caused her to relocate to Massachusetts where she became the founding principal of a charter school in New Bedford. Here, she was able to build a strong culture from the ground up designed around principles of quality, accountability, integrity, persistence, and service. When she got married and began to have children, her life as a school leader ended, but her desire to support other leaders did not. She became a consultant and has partnered with several organizations, districts, and schools to create and facilitate high-quality leadership programs for school and teacher leaders. She recently completed her doctorate in educational leadership with the hopes of centering more Black, female voices in important school and educational conversations.
Courtney Hale
Meet Courtney Hale, a social entrepreneur, financial literacy advocate, and adjunct professor, but most importantly, a single father to his daughter Ever. As the Founder and Chief Hope Dealer of knowledgeBANK, Courtney has helped young people save over $300,000 and set over 1,000 personal financial goals. He created the Super Money Kids, Super Money Bank, and Super Money curriculum, which teach the foundations of money while supporting numeracy achievement. Courtney shares his expertise by hosting financial literacy workshops, consulting, and speaking at various organizations with the goal of empowering the next generation. Courtney has received several awards and acknowledgments, including being featured on the Ellen DeGeneres show. He is forever inspired by his wife Tia Barbour-Hale's life, who passed away in May 2020.
Manuel Cadenas
Manuel hails from the city of Caracas, Venezuela on the Caribbean coast of South America. Though he comes to US via South Seattle, he earned a BA from Texas A&M in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in History. As he pursued a MA in Educational Administration at Seattle University, he became certified in Foreign Language Instruction which he instructed at the secondary level in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program within Seattle Public Schools and Kent School Districts. Most importantly, he is trained in Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) and Restorative Justice (RJ) which changed his practice and approach to mentorship and coaching basketball for his scholars and student-athletes of color. Edifying scholars with a restorative approach provided him with greater insight both in and out of the classroom. Manuel is boldly intentional in improving the engagement of our Black/brown youth. He pursues to narrow the achievement gap in a holistic manner while imparting social skills and emotional intelligence. Though he is currently in his third year of independent consulting as “Solutions By Cadenas, LLC”, Manuel is utilizing his nearly two decades of experience in the classroom to go into the public and private schools of the Pacific Northwest, assisting educators on how to authentically connect and make a difference in their scholars' outcomes via Restorative Practices. He focuses on building relationships and community, fomenting candor and transparency while promoting accountability for young folks. In addition, Manuel is very concerted in the healing of our youth from years of harm resulting from participating in an education system that underserves them by not acknowledging their humanity. Hence, his true horizon is authentically connecting with young folks to then disrupt the ever-present school-to-prison pipeline and collectively strive for liberation. “Coach C” also teaches scholars self-awareness and self-advocacy in order for them to air their grievances and communicate their concerns along with proposing their own possible solutions to stakeholders and decision-makers. He is a facilitator of courageous conversations for the young and not-so-young in educational spaces, and beyond in the form of open houses and town halls for families and communities. Manuel is a Washington Education Association’s (WEA) Implicit Bias cadre member, which trains educators in the areas of Social Justice, Anti-racism, White Fragility, and Microaggressions as he continues to expand their curriculum for Restorative Justice.