Last year, Ruhl applied and was accepted as a K-2 unit writer for the 2016 Kellogg Grant Exemplar Unit Writing on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Education. She spent part of her summer vacation creating a new first- and second-grade language arts curriculum for the state. She devoted two weeks researching best practices, identifying outstanding examples and writing a new multi-week unit that will be available to all Mississippi educators on the department's website. Back at home, Ruhl trained teachers in her school and throughout the district on implementing the units she created.