Kt Beckman-Gotrich Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

I engage ACLU-DC members, volunteers, and the public in the ACLU-DC’s work on issues including first amendment rights, criminal justice, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ+ equality, disability rights, privacy rights, voting rights, and reproductive rights. This includes, but is not limited to, supporting the advancement of ACLU-DC core campaigns.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Design, implement and administer virtual training workshops across US and Latin America for 400+ test administrators and 100+ trainers to promote use and ensure reliable test administration for new users.
• Manage domestic and international client base, and provided customer support including phone, email, and data management. Manage a user database of 35,000+ in 46 states and four countries.
• Contribute to strategic planning in collaboration with CAL teams and state stakeholders, ensuring focus on students and clients needs.
• Assist Test Development team with research, participant recruitment, and product development, ensuring students, test administrators, and program managers were centered in design and user experience.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As a part of the Language Assessment Solutions team at CAL, I evaluate, review and write test materials for Adult English. This includes item writing, surveys, field research, software user testing, and designing training materials for print and digital test administration and rating.

Washington D.C.

• Manage and expand domestic and international client base, facilitate sales, and provide technical support for CAL's clients. Serve as a subject matter expert for CAL’s English assessment product lines. Contract and.
• Lead and facilitate operational tasks: -push/pull communication with CAL English Assessment stakeholders via newsletters, web, webinars, conferences, presentations, and workshops.-monitor sales, inventory, and.
• Facilitate research studies for Adult English assessments for standard setting, field testing, rater norming, cut-scores, etc.

Washington, DC

• Coached and trained Test Administrators using the CAL’s english assessments at 8-10 locations across the US annually.
• Provide daily telephone and email support, including technical support, for BEST Plus and BEST Literacy test administrators and programs.
• Enter and maintain database information (Gold Mine and BEST Plus database).
• Help prepare and package materials needed for training assignments and conference presentations.
• Organize and mail complimentary materials and packets of information to prospective clients.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Conduct classroom observations at local sites to support teachers’ professional development and focus on student-centered learning for English and vocational classes.
• Design and provide professional development workshops to help instructors strengthen and refine their teaching skills.
• Administer oral proficiency assessments to adult ESL learners to measure student learning.

600 14th St Nw, Washington, DC 20005

• Manage monthly inventory and daily pars including the restaurant’s plated desserts, parties, and venue sweets.
• Learned and prepare delicious, classic-American pastries with consistent quality including breads, pies, cakes, custards, puddings, sauces and cookies.
• Assist in the training of new hires including station set-up, recipe execution, plating, and safe food-handling.
• Assist the Pastry Chef in menu research and development for recipes and plating compositions.
• Assist the Pastry Chef with site visits to other partner restaurants in Clyde’s Restaurant Group and offer professional development and ensure product quality.
• Staff Menu Classes in the absence of the Pastry Chef

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Taught dynamic hands-on cooking class to ten-twelve, 8-10 year-old students’ encouraging their growing creativity, math skills, dexterity, food-safety, listening/reading comprehension, and team-building skills.
• In each class over ten week, students cooked a healthy meal using recipes from around the globe and left the kitchen inspired and empowered to share healthy home-cooked meals.

Washington, DC

• Assist in the training of volunteers including station set-up, recipe execution, safe food-handling, and food distribution for the McKenna's Wagon Meal Program, feeding hundreds of food-insecure folks at three.
• Research and develop for healthy and economical recipes to make in very large quantities.
• Manage daily in-kind food donations and strategize best use of donations, space, and volunteers.

2855 Annandale Rd Ste 114, Falls Church, VA 22042

• Managed logistics for LCNV’s professional development including scheduling presenters, room reservations, materials, refreshments, equipment, tracking certifications, program evaluations, and staffing support. Training.
• Researched and developed content for “Tutor Resources and Training” listserv and distribute via Constant Contact.
• Maintained an active role as a trainer in the BAL tutor training workshops as well as served as staff support and substitute trainer for the team. Trained and supported users on LCNV's Access database and record.
• Developed, implemented, and led administration of LCNV’s Computer Literacy Program, designed to provide ESL and low-literacy adults with basic technology skills.
• Coordinated with board members and staff on the Outreach and Fund Development Task Forces to understand our learners’ needs, how to fund programs, and how to improve outcomes.

• Streamlined administrative processes for LCNV’s educational programs. Including integrating newpartnerships, programs and policies; managing intake, data entry and file management.
• Coordinated registration and testing volunteers for classroom students.
• Trained BEST Plus Oral Proficiency test administrators, AmeriCorps, tutor and classroom programvolunteer instructors.
• Supported program staff at in-services, workshops and classroom sites.
• Researched and implemented current and relevant curricula as well as explored new online resources to train and network LCNV volunteers.
• Created LCNV's Social media presence on Twitter and Wordpress.

• Designed and delivered ESL instruction focusing on American life-skills as well as specialized Family Learning classes focused on English skills in the context of parent involvement in children’seducation.
• Managed volunteer teachers and aides at 3 program sites for 6 trimesters each year.
• Improved service delivery by initiating new projects, partnerships and fundraising.
• Worked with board members and State Requirements Task Force on assessment and textbooks to improve outcomes.
• Was selected to represent LCNV’s AmeriCorps members at state-level through the VirginiaInnerCorps Council. Facilitated cohesion among Virginia’s AmeriCorps programs by designingmotivational workshops and communicating.

1370 Park Rd NW, Washington DC 20010

• Managed daily pars for the cafe's in-house menu, wholesale, and party orders.
• Prepared vegan pastries and decorated specialty cakes.
• Observed the chef's research and development process.

Fairfax, VA

• Mastered front-of-house service-delivery and bartending at the best casual dining in Fairfax including food and beverage menu-knowledge, mastery of POSI-touch order entry and timing, team-service, etc.
• Coached and trained new hires and current employees, 20+ annually.
• Multi-tasked and actively prioritized for the best customer service in a high-intensity/volume restaurant.

Cruelty-free confections.

• Worked with students, artists, and faculty to install artwork
• Coordinated fundraising events
• Implemented improved advertising initiatives and university partnerships

• Helped maintain analog and digital media collections.
• Assisted in slide acquisition.
• Contracted by publisher to review interactive media to complement art history texts.

• Learned the practices of a non-profit cooperative gallery including daily operations, sale of artwork, member meetings, and how to organize and execute special gallery and community events.
• Worked with artists and learned more about the mediums they used and how to hang and display artwork.
• Trained and mentored new interns.