Expertise

Gifted Education 

Classroom and global level

Education Leadership topics

Principalship, curriculum, law, research, finance, Human Resources, discipline, facilities, parents, law enforcement, community involvement, master schedule, school counseling, hiring and firing, athletics, poverty, district relationships, personnel, professional development, International Baccalaureate, clubs, political issues, and more

Students First Initiatives

Parent Relationships with their Children, Schools, Peers, Teachers, and more School Marketing International Baccalaureate: MYP, DP, Evaluations, and more

Smart Kids

Issues with all aspects at school, home and with peers.

Speaking Experience

Santa Fe Archdiocese Schools:

Inservice Motivational Speaker



Conference Presentations

15+ over the past 10 years

Civic Groups

Rotary, Delta Kappa Gamma International, Florida Education Leadership, and more

Graduate Education Leadership Courses

Each semester for past 13 years



Professional speaking 

School leader to parents, staff, students and community members

Biography

Currently a university professor, author, speaker, and education consultant.

Founder of Lead Smart Education, LLC, an education firm dedicated to teaching, researching, and spreading the word on the importance of serving all children at their ability level at home and in schools. 

As an educator for over 20 years, Dr. Small’s leadership experiences reach beyond schools and into communities through the mentoring and teaching of future school leaders.

Enjoys writing any genre: fiction, non-fiction, curriculum, biography, children & adult

Publications

Nonfiction Books, Education

Parenting the Smart Kid: 25 Tips No One Told You About Raising Gifted Teens (2023

Smart Kid Terminology: 25 terms to help gifted learners find success (2022)

Serving the Needs of your Smart Kids: How School Leaders Create a Supportive School Culture for the Advanced Learner (2022) 

Articles

“The Global Mindset of Students, Teachers, and School Leaders,”Collegial Exchange, Vol 88-2, 2021.

Teacher’s Perception of their Principal’s Leadership Style and the Effects on Student Achievement in Improving and Non-Improving Schools,

University of South Florida. (Dissertation) (Hardman, B.K. 2011). 

Career ladder of classroom teachers: all tiers lead upward. 

The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 72(3), 30-33. Reprinted with permission by the National Social Studies Supervisors Association, (Hardman, B.K. 2006).



Awards

Firebird Award

2022

Administrator

of the Year

Polk County Florida

Social Studies

Teacher of The Year

Florida Council of Social Studies

Excellence in Teaching History

Florida Council of Social Studies