Stacey earned her B.S. in Elementary and Special Education from William Woods College, a Master of Arts in Teaching with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction from Webster University, and she completed her BCBA coursework through Penn State University and Florida Institute of Technology. She also completed 18 hours of graduate coursework in the area of autism and Asperger Syndrome through KU.  Her teaching credentials include regular education grades 1-8 and special education K-12. In May, 2015, she retired from the Lee’s Summit School District after 30 years, the last 24 of which were spent as an autism/behavior specialist.  In 2015, Stacey was honored to be the closing keynote speaker at the National Autism Conference. In 2022, Stacey was recognized as the Outstanding Educator of Students with Autism at Richard L. Simpson Conference on Autism. What Stacey enjoys most about being a BCBA is watching a child learn to do something they couldn’t do the day before and training educators on new ways to teach children with ASD and challenging behavior. Passionate about staff training and professional development, she has trained hundreds of educators across Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska on how to design and implement effective programs for children with ASD and challenging behavior. Stacey has been married to Jeff for 32 years, and they have two sons, Spencer, age 29 and Trevor, age 25.  In her spare time, Stacey enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, and being outside.