Stacey Crowley, MA, CCC-SLP

COMMUNICOLOGIST, NEURAL ARCHITECT, STORYTELLER

Stacey is a certified public accountant turned dually certified speech language pathologist and literacy specialist with over two decades of experience as an educator, public speaker and professional development facilitator. The owner of Learning Tree Literacy in Asheville, NC, Stacey is passionate about creating a systemic educational mission to raise mentally fit, emotionally intelligent, creative problem solvers capable of deep collaboration.

With 23 years of experience teaching communication, literacy and social emotional learning to youth, Stacey’s current work combines her fields of expertise with neuroscience, mindfulness and nonviolent communication to teach emotional literacy and peaceful conflict resolution using the SHARE Storytelling Routine as an accessible restorative practice. As a certified teacher for the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute since 2019, Stacey facilitates mindfulness-based emotional intelligence programs for school districts and international educator cohorts to help participants discover how to lead their lives, teams and classrooms with clarity, connection and compassion.

Stacey’s dual roles as a Speech Language Pathologist and Reading Specialist coupled with advanced training in the Orton-Gillingham Approach to multisensory structured language education enable her to specialize in comprehensive treatment for students with language-based learning differences.

 

Blending her extensive experience teaching children with her training in Mindful Schools and The Leader in Me, Stacey strives to meet each child and family where they are to meet the needs of the whole child and family system.

Stacey holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University in  New York, a Master of Arts in Communication Disorders from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Master of Arts in Literacy from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

Stacey once saved her dog from the jaws of a mama bear. Hear the story and what she learned about conflict and trauma-informed education in this 6min Tedx Talk.

Stacey has a wealth of knowledge and I find myself continually using techniques she has taught years ago.
— Sasha Haynes, MS (Community Counselor/Homeschool Mom)