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Working with individual educators, school leaders, schools, districts, and other educational organizations improve their performance, quality, and impact. I work closely with clients to identify goals and deliverables. My services include:• Strategic planning and visioning: Defining and achieving goals, aligning resources and stakeholders, monitoring and evaluating outcomes, adjusting strategies.• Curriculum design and implementation: Creating and delivering effective, engaging, and equitable curricula for diverse learners, using research-based frameworks and best practices, assessing and improving quality and alignment.• Instructional coaching and professional development: Improving instructional practices, pedagogical skills, and content knowledge, using proven models and tools, fostering learning and collaboration among staff.• Data analysis and assessment: Collecting, analyzing, and using data to inform decisions, actions, and improvements, using various tools and methods, developing and implementing meaningful assessments for students and staff.• School improvement and turnaround: Addressing challenges, implementing evidence-based interventions, creating a culture of continuous improvement, using frameworks and principles that meet federal, state, and local requirements and expectations, leveraging strengths and opportunities.• Leadership development and succession planning: Developing leadership competencies, styles, and capacities, preparing for future roles and responsibilities, using assessments and feedback tools, building and maintaining a diverse leadership pipeline.• Diversity and inclusion: Promoting diversity and inclusion in education, supporting the recruitment and retention of educators and leaders of color, providing training and resources on cultural competence, anti-racism, and social justice, engaging with diverse and marginalized communities and stakeholders.

Seattle, Wa

Providing supervision and wraparound support/coaching to elementary and K-8 schools/school leaders including the following:• Provided differentiated support, feedback and coaching through structured site visits focused on instructional leadership and developing high-leverage action steps• Systematically increased the capacity of school leaders through Principal and Assistant Principal Learning Networks• Collaborated and coordinated with leadership coaches to provide wraparound support to novice leaders• Engaged in targeted recruitment/retention efforts to elevate leaders of color in SPS pipelines, including 1:1 coaching and support for rising leaders of color, resulting in increased representation of people of color in the principalship• Led principal hiring with an emphasis on creating a culturally responsive and diverse workforce, soliciting staff and community feedback• Created and implemented specific structures, timelines and documentation to support principal transitions• Engaged in the design, planning, and delivery of annual School Leader Institute sessions; established feedback protocols to improve practice• Collaborated with internal and external partners to establish professional development priorities and guidelines, including the design and implementation of a year long Aspiring Principal Academy• Aligned district supports to school action plans and instructional visions, including monitoring structures to support central office staff assigned to buildings• Promoted and enhanced the work of the Early Literacy Improvement Network by collaborating on the creation of site visit structures to ensure consistent implementation of strategic practices and incorporating early literacy initiatives and practices with leaders• Worked with families and school leaders to find resolution to parent concerns and to re-establish positive working relationships between families and school staff

St. Louis, Mo

Managed the St. Louis Public Schools Curriculum Department, including the following: • Provided professional development for principals, leadership teams and teachers on a number of topics including organizational management, curriculum design, and instructional observation and coaching• Supervised/coached/supported all curriculum specialists (K-12) in all areas of work, including writing curriculum, pacing guides and supporting material• Organize and manage organizational shift toward common formative assessments, more rigorous data analysis and standards-based learning• Supervise the administration all aspects (budget, hiring, curriculum, instruction, operations) of Summer Learning for all students and schools within SLPS – 17 summer learning sites and approximately 6,000 students• Implement revised curriculum support model including district-wide common formative assessments, writing and performance tasks, job-embedded professional development for teachers

Saint Louis, Missouri

Supervision of a portfolio of elementary and K-8 schools and central office leadership. I worked collaboratively with other principal supervisors to create a common picture of excellence for all schools and drive toward those results through a balanced model of coaching and job-embedded professional development, including the following:• Engage in frequent co-observation days; highlighting areas of strength and improvement in feedback • Work with principals to set, review and meet ambitious goals for the year• Problem-solve solutions to school and district challenges that pose a barrier to school improvement• Work with principals to design and implement rigorous academic and social-emotional intervention programs• Drive strong talent practices at schools, and support, coach, train and supervise school leadership teams to help develop leadership power skills• Work extensively with district leaders to design school leadership training, coaching and support programs• Create mid-year and end-of-year evaluations and coaching plans for school leaders• Serve on the committee to select new principals and shape future leadership, including development of principal performance metrics

Baltimore, Md

Leading in a Title I Elementary and Middle School, including the following: • Set and implemented school-wide vision and mission for supporting transformational increases in student achievement• Supported high quality instruction through frequent and varied informal observations and feedback • Built capacity of staff and building leadership in instructional strategies, data conversations, and social-emotional growth through extensive in-house professional development plan• Selected and implemented curriculum for PK-8th grade in conjunction with the instructional leadership team• Recruited and retained highly qualified staff through rigorous interviews, performance reviews and ongoing teacher and staff support (both school and district level)• Developed a pipeline for teacher and school leadership to create continuity of program and aligned school initiatives• Created a school budget for a multi-million dollar school program, meeting state and district guidelines• Promoted and cultivated community-school-family relationships – creating a welcoming environment that focuses on student social-emotional growth, academic achievement.• Increased student enrollment over four years by 100% through targeted recruitment and retention efforts• Coordinated partnerships and outreach – facilitating over $200,000 in grants, partnerships and in-kind donations• Created and implemented social-emotional growth programs at a school level, along with alternatives to suspension and restorative justice - reducing suspensions over three years by 90%• Guided instructional teams in implementing Common Core State Standards throughout PK-8th grade• Led process to become a community school in partnership with the Family League of Baltimore• Supervised multiple leadership interns (principals in training) from 2012 to 2015

Baltimore, Md

.• Supervised teachers’ classroom management and instruction through daily observations and feedback• Conferenced with parents, students, teachers and staff as needed• Worked with the math team to use data to drive instruction in every math class• Facilitated professional development for teachers and staff• Maintained, analyzed and created plans of action based on daily attendance, discipline, and academic data• Created and implemented a system of silent reading and advisory periods to increase student reading levels• Oversaw technical procedures throughout the school building, oversaw facilities operations

Baltimore, Md

• Designed and taught courses for 6th grade History, Mathematics, and Science, and 7th Grade Geography• Coached Chess Club for grades 2-8, ran “Chess in the Park” Tournament• Collaborated with math and English teachers to bring tested content into social studies• Provided instructional feedback and guidance to incoming social studies teachers• Designed and implemented after-school discipline program, reducing suspensions by 50%• Served as Teacher-at-Large, Patterson Park Public Charter School Board of Directors• Served as a member of the instructional programming committee to review and evaluate various sources of data to help guide instruction and curriculum development on school-wide level• Served as Saturday School Coordinator, acted as on-site administrator for Saturday students and staff, responding to student behavior• Created and implemented data based system of lesson planning and instruction based on MD state assessment tested skills• Designed complete curriculum for 6th and 7th grade social studies

• Designed and taught courses for High School English and American history• Participated in School Improvement Team and extended-day professional training• Led social studies content team for Teach for America - Baltimore secondary social studies teachers

Columbia, Mo

• Presented sessions on diversity, multiculturalism, and tolerance to student and faculty groups• Conducted training for campus leaders on diversity issues and group facilitation• Enacted plans for a student-led education team, bridging gap between peer groups• Coordinated campus diversity, inclusion and awareness events

Columbia, Mo

• Managed personnel and finances of kitchen and dining room of a full-service restaurant• Improved customer service by addressing individual needs and concerns of guests• Interviewed, recruited, hired, and trained a full staff of cooks and servers• Supervised up to 20 employees at a time in demanding and high-stress situations

Master Of Arts In Teaching - Mat, Secondary Education And Teaching

Doctor Of Education (Edd), Educational Leadership And Administration

Doctoral Work - Educational Leadership (ABD)

Ba, History And Geography

Graduated with Honors in History and Geography.