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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Responsible for day-to-day planning and coordination of Health Equity Learning and Action Network activity. Maximize participant engagement, schedule, plan, and logistics for meetings. Coordinate training events, and ensure the strategic and intentional advancement of Health Equity in the greater Kansas City area.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Recruit, grow and retain people of color and low socioeconomic backgrounds for creative careers in the Marketing & Advertising industry. Assessed gaps for improving Diversity & Inclusion efforts in the Marketing & Advertising industry, Product Development functions, and proposed innovative solutions for closing the socioeconomic gaps.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

As STEM Training and Coaching Services Consultant provides coaching, training, support, and services to clients and partners using The PEAR Institute’s STEM tools. Manage services of PEAR's STEM tools, including customer service, training, and coaching for clients. Diversify STEM activities and youth programming, as well as training and client service experience with excellent judgment and content knowledge. Presents PEAR STEM work at local and national events and meetings.

CEO and Management Director of the Learning & Development Consultant Services that assist businesses in improving learning development plans. Solve problems, create value, improve growth, and maximize business efficiency and profitability. Provided management and oversight on all business development policies and processes to ensure consultants are providing clients exceptional customer service in regard to the mission statement. Provide training development plans and advice to clients based on results and analysis of education development in poverty-stricken communities. Help businesses and school districts create realistic Individual Development Plans that help close the socioeconomic gap in poverty-stricken areas.

Partnered with key stakeholders to close achievement gaps and increase math acumen in conjunction with the Principal and the Math Content Coordinator of Learning and Leadership Services. Provide exceptional cognitive, creative abilities to effectively implement strategies, teach demonstration or collaborative lessons in the classroom, and coach effective research-based instructional strategies in math in classrooms. Provide support, coordination, and facilitation for co-teaching teams focusing on students.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Designed and implementing effective training and development programs. Conducts annual training and development needs assessment. Developed training and development programs and objectives. Provide detailed analysis of performance in field and clinical settings.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Developed and delivered graduate and undergraduate mathematics courses to a variety of students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds in an Adult-Learning environment. Develop effective training modules to support and guide PreK-12 teaching candidates. Provided continuing education training, developing training manuals, multimedia visual aids, and other educational materials Conduct ongoing technical training and personal development classes for staff and students.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Provide Theory and Practice education through learner-centered instruction that enables graduates to fulfill their career objectives. Instruct and facilitate a meaningful learning experience of the course competencies in the curriculum and proactively support all facets of the online learning environment.Foster and encourage an online culture of learning that values mutual responsibility, life-long learning, diversity, and ethics as well as personal and professional development. Select, modify, or create a design and development model appropriate for a given project. Provide and use a variety of techniques to define and sequence the instructional content and strategies for effective implementation of instructional products and program

Kansas City, Ks, Us

Plan, conduct and administer programs that train employees and improve their skills and knowledge. Prepared and updated employment records related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating. Conducted training on company human resource policies, procedures, laws, and standards for new and existing employees. Ensured new hire paperwork was processed and completed. Collectively designed training that focused on creating an employee-friendly environment.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Utilized multiple learning methods and technologies to deliver learning sessions, including in person classroom, virtual classroom, self-study, phone/conference, video sessions, CoPs, blogs and blended learning for instructional delivery geared to multi-ethnic students of various ages and socioeconomic statuses. Reviewed and audited textbooks for curriculum adoption merging mathematical content with life application and maintaining effective program management. Developed and implemented data informed options, recommendations and conclusions to increase student achievement

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Developed network of collaborative relationships between Faculty/Staff mentors with first-generation mentees to support students that are unfamiliar with the college environment. Analyzed effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of Intentional Connections Program by creating an online program to collect statistical data, building in qualifying and quantifying outliers. Planned and conducted education projects for prospective students that involved increasing access to educational programs, social programs and other college services.

Adapted analytical teaching techniques and instructional strategies to students of various ages, cultural, religious and socioeconomic statuses. Managed student's questions and communicate information requirements across different modalities: on-campus, Facebook and Twitter to assist students in grasping mathematical content. Used professional expertise and knowledge to help students connect mathematics concepts with life applications.

Provide companies with classroom training, demonstrations, on-the-job training, meetings, conferences and workshops. Analyzed and evaluated teacher effectiveness, efficiency and productivity by increasing knowledge and skills of teachers, administrators and other district/school instructional leaders in analyzing assessment information at a variety of levels. Established goals and objectives for professional development programs to cultivate supportive learning communities in 27 districts and 16 charter schools. Reviewed and investigated strategies to increase content knowledge, in research-based instructional strategies, formative and summary assessments.

Developed and provided Mathematics and Science instruction to middle and high school students based on researched-informed instructional strategies. Provided academic advice and built vital relationships with middle and high schools administrators and teachers to ensure emotional support and academic success. Recommended and gave conclusions based on statistical data that included students' school, Kauffman attendance and behavior records, reading/math scores, ACT/SAT test prep, and family dynamics that could lead and/or hinder student success.

Researched and developed curriculum for “Math Academy,” a remediation and support program for “at-risk” students. Audited and investigated effectiveness of individualized learning plans to address areas of mathematics deficiency and parallel those with algebraic content based on program needs. Analyzed and evaluated program effectiveness qualitatively and quantitatively and offered academic and emotional support to “at-risk” students to encourage growth.

Technology Based Inclusion (STEM) -Introduced, incorporated and developed reporting systems for project-based learning initiative and gathered and analyzed data on “at-risk” students to determine their rate of progress. Administered programs and interactive lessons that promoted student interest in science and technology. Developed and created cost analysis for managing a science technology program.

Master Of Arts, Education

Bachelor Of Arts, Liberal Arts