She's also an award-winning blogger with her two and a half year old blog, Imagination Soup, a blog to help parents and teachers make learning fun, hands-on, and playful. In 2010, Imagination Soup won the Best Reading and Book Blog from Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine.  

Although she’s not currently in the elementary classroom or training teachers, “Once a teacher, always a teacher,” says Taylor, Colorado mom of two. As far as education, she has an M.A. in Global Education from the University of Denver and a B.A. in English from Colorado State University.

Taylor freelance writes for national magazines such as Parenting (coming soon) and Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine as well as national websites like Babble.com and local magazines such as Colorado Parent and Colorado Expression. 

One of her newest passions is blogging; Taylor freelance blogs for Imagine Toys and considers new clients on a case-by-case basis.

Last spring, Taylor represented her state of Colorado in the Parenting Magazine MOM Congress in Washington D.C. for her education advocacy. As a child advocate, Taylor believes her role is to enable and grow other parents to become better advocates themselves. 

In April, 2010, Colorado Parent magazine named Taylor their Book Editor-at-Large where she wrote weekly book reviews on Bookmarkable for parents of children ages 0 to eight. 

Taylor is currently a panelist for the 2011 Cybils Book Apps and was a Cybils panelist for the Early Readers and Early Chapter Books in 2010.

In Douglas County School District, where Taylor worked for many years, Taylor won Outstanding Teacher Award every year she was eligible to apply, four years in a row. During this time, she became a literacy trainer for the well-known Public Education and Business Coalition (P.E.B.C.) and in that role, hosted groups of teachers in her classroom for learning labs as well as trained teachers at eight elementary and middle schools in Colorado and Utah, focusing on thinking strategies and best practices in instruction, a workshop approach of teaching, and assessment. Her first teaching job was teaching pre-kindergarten for a Migrant Education program in Denver, Colorado. After that, she worked as a 4/5 bilingual instructor in Denver Public Schools and when federally mandated busing ended, she moved to Douglas County Schools.

Taylor is a member of the Education Writers Association, the Denver Woman's Press Club, and the Lighthouse Writers.  

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