About Dinah Taylor

Innovative.Practical. Resourceful.

Dinah Taylor has extensive training in behavior, social-emotional support, and systematic change in elementary and secondary schools.  She has spent the last three years working with district personnel, principals, and teachers in developing behavioral systems that are effective and sustainable.

After graduating from South Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Science in Special Education, she worked in Richland One School District as a special education teacher and lead chairperson for ten years. While working with students with emotional and learning disabilities, she realized that real change could happen if interventions were implemented with fidelity, purpose, and intentionality.

Subsequently, Dinah earned a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, which uses a systems approach to foster transformation within the family unit. This helped her work even further while working with and within schools. Using a very similar therapeutic model, along with MTSS research and practice, Dinah has developed a platform that allows for change to happen over time with the expectation that the change will not only be sustainable but also maintainable. 

Currently, Dinah serves as a behavior intervention specialist. She understands that in order for change to be significant, schools must look at the system holistically; keep what is working; remove what is not, and work towards obtaining what they do not have. She, along with her husband, Rodney Taylor are the founders of Systems That Work, LLC and are committed to doing “the work.”

With a dedicated, methodical, and thoughtful process to helping schools and districts, Dinah is unwavering in her pursuit to see students, staff members, and families work together to ensure the success of our future communities.