Lily Skots

Lily Skots is a fifth-grade teacher at Trinity Christian School (TCS) in Sacramento, California. In this role, Mrs. Skots provides leadership and individualized instruction, supports special needs (SN), gifted, and English learner (EL) students, mentors new hire teachers and seeks to build parent-school engagement to increase student achievement. Mrs. Skots has been recognized by Trinity Christian School for contributions to student academic success, support for SN/EL students, and outstanding performance. In addition, as a practitioner of Universal Design Learning (UDL), Mrs. Skots has demonstrated professional growth through attendance at the Assembly of God teacher professional developments and has been recognized by the California Department of Education (CDE) California School Recognition Program (CSRP) for successful employment of UDL strategies to increase academic success and narrow the achievement gap among ESL students.
Over the past three years at TCS, Mrs. Skots developed a parental engagement course, introduced TCS to Dads of Great Students (WATCH D.O.G.S.), and brought hundreds of fathers and father figures into the school classrooms and playgrounds. As a result, Mrs. Skots was recognized by TCS administration for encouraging fathers to engage in children’s education demonstrating by their presence that education is important.
Mrs. Skots earned a Master's Degree in Teaching from William Jessup University in 2022 and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in General Psychology with an emphasis in Cognition and Instruction from Grand Canyon University. Mrs. Skots' long-term research interests include memory and the transfer of learning in elementary school students with language delays. In addition, Mrs. Skots intends to use a qualitative research design and data collection methods to understand the effects of parental engagement in their children's education and how paternal involvement benefits children language development.

Mrs. Skots’ long-term professional interest includes attaining faculty position at the university level to mentor and develop new teachers seeking to enter K-12 education.