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Houston, TX, US

Houston, TX, US

• Delivered individualized instructional sessions about non-verbal communication strategies to empower 50 K-12 educators to increase students’ instructional time
• Designed and presented professional development opportunities about classroom culture to prepare over 90% of participants to enhance their relationships with all students
• Conceived and implemented instructional resources to amplify TEACH team members using a data management system (Salesforce) to achieve TEACH’s quarterly key objectives
• Positioned 10+ TEACH team members to leverage their strengths and experiences to elevate TEACH partner representatives’ success by facilitating five professional learning experiences around diversity, equity and.

Keller, Texas, US

• Designed research-based workforce development and college success programming to enable 15+ staff members to prepare 1,000+ alumni to begin gainful careers
• Facilitated objective-driven weekly professional learning communities to enable program team members to shape approaches to lead 700+ students to thrive in corporate internships and enroll in college
• Launched a GW-wide career service management platform to effectively connect 200+ students and alumni to meaningful work experiences at GW corporate partners
• Devised the process and resources to enable team members to efficiently assess students’ performances in summer training and College and Career Connections through using a learning management system (Schoology)

Houston, Texas, US

• Led monthly objective-driven one-on-one coaching sessions with 20+ Leading Excellence Fellows and created data-based coaching plans to drive fellows to increase their impact on student and staff achievement
• Formalized the process to track the progress 50+ YES Prep leaders were making toward guiding members of their team to exceed system-wide objectives
• Conceptualized and facilitated a district-wide professional learning series on diversity, equity, and inclusion to enable 1,000 staff members to build authentic relationships with team members and students

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed and led 10+ professional learning initiatives for over 35 teachers leaders to guide teachers on their team to reach all of their students
• Coached 65 Career Pathways teacher leaders on how to partner with school leadership team members in identifying and leading learning opportunities to enhance teachers’ abilities to impact student outcomes
• Oversaw the development and facilitation of 20+ professional development opportunities to prepare 300 beginning teachers to create a high achieving classroom

New York, NY, US

• Devised and conducted pre-service programming to increase over 300 early career educators' knowledge of Houston’s educational landscape and Texas’ teacher certification process
• Codified the corps member interview and hiring monitoring system to lead 80% of 2014 corps members versus approximately 65% of 2013 early career educators securing roles prior to July
• Initiated 5+ community engagement initiatives and resources to increase 50+ school leaders' and human resources representatives' satisfaction and engagement with TFA-Houston’s model

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Established and performed evidence-based teacher candidate evaluation strategies to ensure 400 school administrators acquire extremely qualified educators
• Advised teachers on research-driven interview techniques and instructional strategies to enable over 90 educators to secure positions in highly competitive schools
• Initiated innovative marketing approaches to develop partnerships with universities or community organizations for STA to support a 1,000 teacher candidates to succeed in teaching roles at independent schools

• Instituted school-wide student evaluation resources and techniques to gain 95% of PSA community members’ confidence in educators’ abilities to implement evidence-based instructional approaches
• Formulated and conducted strategic planning experiences to enable PSA faculty to accelerate the success of all students and alumni
• Administered the PSA academic and behavioral performance management system to increase the average PSA student literacy proficiency level by 22%

Madison, WI, US

• Designed and co-taught an undergraduate seminar course on pop culture and health issues
• Advised a group of 35 undergraduates on how to develop and implement peer education trainings on alcohol safety
• Analyzed and presented data on student-leadership programs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison CHOICES grant

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Led nine staff members and 450 volunteers to deliver data-driven learning experiences to 500 students through facilitating program evaluation sessions
• Planned and employed organizational development initiatives to position 93% of FLOC students to achieve grade level competency in reading and math
• Coordinated a department-wide financial development and analysis system to acquire and oversee an annual budget of $500,000

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Promoted nineteen students’ critical thinking skills by building a curriculum for all academic disciplines that included interactive and project-based instructional approaches
• Constructed a school-wide student behavioral framework with teachers and family members to aid all students’ social-emotional development
• Developed three long-term, class-wide, theme-based units to enable students to have real life applications of academic subject areas

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