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Parkway Northeast Middle School

Kipp Triumph Academy

KIPP St. Louis is a network of world class public schools which seek to provide historically under-served children with a rigorous academic and character education.At KIPP Triumph, I design lesson plans with annotated exemplars for each objective. My strong behavior management practice enables me to monitor students' work closely during independent practice and give in-the-moment feedback. I administer daily exit tickets to assess mastery of objectives and plan re-teaches after assessment. I also work closely with parents and resource teachers to ensure each student's needs are being met, including designing daily modified work. A coach also observes and gives me feedback weekly and I implement action steps immediately. I am currently focusing on tightening my curriculum to improve student performance on benchmark tests, as well as on the end-of-course assessment, and am consistently pushing to find better ways of delivering instruction and investing students.

Kipp Triumph Academy

As Course Leader, I design all curriculum for fifth grade reading in the KIPP St Louis region, ensuring every lesson plan objective aligns to what students need to be able to know and do on each CCSS/MLS. I create exemplar answers for each lesson plan, including those for each scaffolded and culminating text-dependent question. I regularly implement feedback from the Director of Middle School Curriculum.

Kipp Inspire Academy

KIPP St. Louis is a network of world class public schools which seek to provide historically under-served children with a rigorous academic and character education.At KIPP Inspire, I observed and collaborated with experienced reading teachers. I worked with small groups of 6th-grade students who were close to being proficient on benchmark tests in an effort to boost these students to proficiency. All of these students showed growth from unit to unit and many of them did succeed in becoming proficient on the benchmark exams.I was observed by and met weekly with the Chief Academic Officer of KIPP St. Louis to discuss my performance, immediately putting into place any action steps we came up with. I learned and began to master important skills, such as reading strategies and behavior management. I put many reading strategies as well as the behavior management cycle to work in the small groups I pulled out, seeing changes in academics as well as behavior.I also taught a class of over 25 gifted 8th graders in order to prepare them to take the 9th grade End-of-Course Assessment. 96% of these students scored proficient or advanced on this test.

Lafayette Square, Saint Louis, Missouri

Designed and implemented training plans for over 20 new employees, barista, cashier, developed positive relationships with customers

Greater St. Louis Area

I have edited numerous chemistry manuscripts for Dr. Nikolay Gerasimchuk, professor of Chemistry at Missouri State University. These manuscripts have been published in a variety of reputable chemistry publications. I also edited a grant proposal for Dr. Gerasimchuk that earned Missouri State University a grant for $396,264 from the National Institutes of Health.I have edited manuscripts of novels for a St. Louis-based company called April Floyd Books and also edited a manuscript for the novel Rock Island Lines, by Dean Klinkenberg.

St. Louis

During the spring 2015 semester I completed my student teaching experience at Soldan International Studies High School in the Saint Louis Public Schools district. At Soldan I taught two sections of junior-level American Literature, where I planned multidisciplinary units and lessons, tailored these lessons to meet individual students’ needs, assessed students continually and provided timely feedback, and used the data gathered from assessments to inform my future instructional planning. I also worked one-on-one with students possessing a wide range of abilities in four sections of sophomore-level World Literature. In addition, I helped coach the girls’ track team in order to further build my relationships with the students.

4366 Manchester Ave, St Louis, Mo 63110

At Mission: St. Louis I volunteered to help with the After School Program, tutoring elementary and middle school-age children. Activities included building math skills, building reading comprehension skills, general homework help, and maintaining a positive and fun atmosphere.

Cashier, keep floor and dish area clean, fill customers' orders

7220 Waterman Ave, St Louis, Mo 63130

I helped organize a 4th and 5th grade school newspaper, The Flynn Park Times, aiding students in the production and layout of the newspaper. I taught students Microsoft Publisher, journalistic conventions and encouraged a respectful and productive newsroom set-up.

Greater St. Louis Area

Copy edited, fact checked, managed intern projects, wrote blogs, wrote and organized sidebars for print version, uploaded print version to digital, completed research for various stories, pitched story ideas, kept editorial tracker up-to-date

500 S. National, Springfield, Mo, 65802

Attended classes on team building and learning styles. Aided in training over 40 new managers for the MO/AR market. Awarded "Shift Supervisor of the Year" by district manager of Southwest Missouri market and president of TBI/OKC. Managed associates, ran daily shifts in the bakery cafe, completed office tasks such as filing, answering emails and phone calls, placed daily orders through the Fresh Dough Facility, and filled and took customers' orders.

Teacher Certification, Secondary English And Teaching, English Language Arts

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Language And Literature, General