Aaron-Paula Thompson, M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Va, Us

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Provide critical support for visitor evaluation that aims to better understand visitor experience and museum visitor satisfaction. Assists in collecting data and visitor feedback through observations, interviews, surveys, and focus groups. Assist with processing data, which may include uploading audio files to transcriptionists, preparing files for quantitative and qualitative data entry, and organizing raw data in preparation for analysis. Other duties include preparing proposals, presentations, and reports for distribution (proofreading, formatting, and designing data visualizations).

Richmond City County, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia Area

Own and operate a small business that specialized in focused instructional design and training facilitation for a diverse range of markets. Major projects range from work in the government sector by publishing the Instructor's Guide for an Air Force JROTC astronomy textbook to the development and delivery of soft skills and management training for Albemarle County Government to the fast-paced private sector by building e-coaching for the advertising agency Bouvier-Kelly, Inc.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Joined the organization as a Education Coordinator and stepped in to act as Interim Executive Director. Served as Executive Director through pandemic and cultural transition.

Chesterfield, Virginia

Provide meaningful education opportunities and experiences for park guests by interpreting the significance of the park's historical and cultural resources. Manage and maintain collection of historical and archival materials from the Civilian Conservation Corp and Virginia State Park history. Coordinated team to create and adopt museum mission statement.

Chester, Virginia

Presents living history education programs to school groups, adults, and special interest groups. Studies and masters program-related historical material. Performs routine inspections and maintenance of site grounds, facilities, and collections. Conducts historical research, and assists in developing content for programming and special events.

Richmond, Virginia

Interact with public audiences of all ages and backgrounds through the admissions process and informal interpretation in a visitor-centric working environment. As a member of the front-line engagement team, supports the work of the Museum by helping to foster a meaningful visitor experience.

Chester, Virginia

Provide Distance Education, Placement Testing and other tests to students for the various programs of study at John Tyler Community College.

Richmond, Virginia

Planned programming that incorporated both the mission of Girl Scouts of the United States and the Girl Scout Leadership Experience model in order to achieve both youth and adult membership growth and retention goals for council. Serving primarily youth ranging from K-12, my curricula focused on areas of leadership development, outdoor programming, healthy living and relationships, financial literacy, STEM/STEAM, and community service. Expanded the council’s available program opportunities by establishing a strong and diverse community partnership program that gave girls, families, and troops various new pathways to explore their world and learn about themselves. Rejuvenated and expanded the prestigious leadership awards program, providing girls in grades 4-12 an understandable, measured, and achievable pathway for their success.

Richmond, Va

Developed curricula for child care providers in order to meet their certification standards. All of my courses are more accessible to providers today because they are available as online learning.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Assessed the educational needs of multiple, diverse groups in order to design and deliver need-focused programs that provided the most value from the library’s vast resources. Projects include: development of exhibition programming and docent training; serving community groups such as genealogists, OSHER, Girl Scouts, and VA Homeschoolers; and volunteer and intern recruiting and on-boarding. Supported teacher professional development by designing and delivering the Anne & Ryland Brown Teacher Institute. Led special content programs such as Virginia Women in History, Strong Men and Strong Women in Virginia History, Brown Teacher Research Fellowship.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Presented training programs on financial literacy topics for the community. Responsible for the training and development of over 150 employees. Topics include: New hire orientation, compliance, business accounts, communication skills, budgeting, credit, investing, identity theft, and product/promotion overviews. Conduct needs assessment and evaluation for all training programs. Design and deliver training to both large groups and one-on-one. Manage community sponsorship program, scholarship program, internal and external service surveys, financial counseling program and training documentation.

Greater Denver Area

Manage training and development for 200+ employees. Design and delivery of training including: New Hire Orientation, compliance, customer service skills, loan origination. Update employees regarding current fraud and security issues. Product and service training for all employees. Coordinate training from outside sources. Chairperson of several fundraising committees. Founded networking forum for credit union trainers in Denver area.

Contract training position in highly customer-service driven fields such as hotel, restaurant, and retail. Worked closely with learners and management on client sites while training and implementing Point of Sale, Property Management, and other proprietary software applications. Domestic and international travel up to 85% of the year.

M.Ed., Teaching & Learning With Technology

M.Ed. in Teaching & Learning with Technology

Professional Certificate, Museology/Museum Studies

Professional development program for students already employed by museums and other cultural organizations engaged in the display.

Bs, Geography

BS in Physical Geography

Instructional Technology

Virginia Tech Online Program

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