Epiphany: Empowering Educators for Success
Free resources for educators. Practical tools designed to support instruction, leadership, and student achievement.
About Epiphany Education
About Me: Erika Prelow
After more than twenty years in Texas public education, one lesson has remained constant: educators need access to practical, high-quality resources when they need them—not days later, not after searching through folders, and not after waiting for someone to return a call.
Throughout my career as a teacher, instructional coach, and district literacy leader, I have had the privilege of partnering with campus leaders, instructional coaches, and teachers across multiple districts. Often, former colleagues would reach out needing a resource we had created together, support for a PLC, guidance on a standard, help interpreting data, or simply a second thought partner. Sometimes I was available immediately. Sometimes I was on another campus, in another meeting, or digging through files trying to locate exactly what they needed.
Epiphany was created to solve that problem.
This site serves as a resource hub designed to provide educators with practical tools, instructional resources, planning supports, and leadership materials that can be accessed whenever they are needed. It is built from real work, real classrooms, real PLCs, and real challenges encountered by educators every day.
Professionally, I currently serve as Director of Secondary Literacy and have spent two decades designing curriculum, assessments, instructional systems, and professional learning experiences that support student achievement. I am also the creator of the Vertical Alignment Success System (VASS), a framework designed to help educators translate standards into clear instructional pathways and success criteria.
But this website is not about me.
It is about the teachers who are juggling multiple preps, the instructional leaders supporting several grade levels, the campus administrators trying to move student outcomes forward, and the educators who simply need a resource that helps make tomorrow better than today.
Many organizations charge for resources like these. I chose a different path.
Everything here is shared freely because I believe education is strongest when educators support one another.
So, from me to you—this is my gift to education.
I hope you find something here that helps you, your team, and ultimately your students.