Clarissa Cervantes Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Support a subset of over 30 corps members and execute consistent coaching across multiple schools, grades, and contents that strengthens corps member practice and impacts student outcomes.
• Plan on a quarterly basis towards end-of-year goals, including strategically calendaring school visits and coaching cycles, to ensure corps members are continuously learning and improving.
• Observe corps members live in action to help them connect their values and beliefs to their work, stay centered on their classroom visions, and learn critical instructional and leadership skills.
• Provide adaptive leadership coaching cycles and implement customized plans of support for all corps members that is inclusive and individualized based on each corps member's vision and student data, school context and.
• Leverage networks of support around CMs (including local alumni, organization-wide resources, and partners) and foster the skills required for CMs to cultivate and access their own networks and develop as system-change.
• Consistently collect, analyze and apply quantitative and qualitative student achievement and corps members' performance and experience data to set and hold high expectations, inform corps member development strategies.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Regularly observed each virtual classroom and teaching team in order to provide feedback and actionable suggestions around instructional practice and classroom culture (on a weekly basis).
• Facilitated weekly virtual check-in meetings with the teaching team to review observation feedback, share updates from GWC central office, review student progress and classroom concerns.
• Brainstormed solutions and approaches to classroom management issues.
• Encouraged teaching teams to implement instructional best practices such as promoting engagement with breakout rooms, constructing structured checks for understanding, scaffolding the lesson, etc.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Developed and implemented engaging and rigorous curriculum and lessons aligned to the California Common Core State Standards to ensure student achievement and success.
• Provided advising & mentoring for a core caseload of 18 students through high school graduation, providing academic counseling and supporting them in meeting their educational goals and decision-making through.
• Served as Advisory Lead & Grade Level Lead to plan and implement new programs and initiatives both cross-departmentally and otherwise, such as informative workshops on higher education, new social-emotional well-being.
• Collaborated and cultivated relationships with various stakeholders, communicating effectively to address student challenges and implement proactive support.
• Tracked over 100 students’ progress with detailed reports and documentation, analyzing outcomes to make data-informed decisions and plan interventions for students with academic needs.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Selected from approximately 45,000 applicants nationwide to join national teacher corps of recent college graduated and professionals who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools.
• Participate in intensive summer training program to develop the skills and knowledge needed to achieve significant gains in student achievement. Simultaneously teach in summer school program run by Teach for America.
• Engage in professional development activities, including seminars, discussion groups, workshops, individual and group reflections, reading, and 'learning teams' specific to my teaching license area.

UCLA Store

• Supervise a group of seven approximately other Customer Service Representatives
• Work in direct communication with Manager and Marketing Supervisor to provide support for various projects
• Provide assistance in the beauty section of the store, which includes brands like Clinique and Bare Minerals, and consistently restock and straighten up the areas
• Work directly with the store's retail management computer program, Visual RATEX, to confirm stock numbers
• Help check-in orders
• Do advanced cashiering functions

UCLA/ Huntington Park, CA

• Oversee the logistics of Project BRITE's partnership with Aspire Centennial College Preparatory Academy by communicating directly with the Dean of Students
• Provide support in creating curriculum for students, such as a Geography Education unit and a High School Preparation unit
• Oversee site visits to ACCPA, where my volunteers act as tutors and mentors to the students
• Drive volunteers from UCLA to site and back
• Go on grocery store trips to buy snacks for students throughout Project BRITE
• Collaborate with UCLA's Student Organization, Leadership & Engagement division to create order forms for grocery store runs

UCLA

• Part of a service-learning seminar at UCLA
• Provided support for two bilingual classrooms, a Kindergarten class and a fifth-grade class, during activities, classwork, break times, etc.
• Supported teacher in finding bilingual resources for students depending on the week's topic
• Created bilingual material for teacher's use in the classroom

UCLA

• Edited stories submitted by writers across all four sections of the newspaper (Arts & Entertainment, News, Opinion, and Sports), before sending final copy of newspaper to publisher for production
• Fact checked and confirmed all writer's sources through direct phone calls
• Contacted writers for further information on their stories

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided support for students during summer camp programs twice a day, and during evening Journalism classes, where students produced their own newspaper
• Collaborated with staff in performing office duties, such as replying to emails, getting in touch with interested volunteers, organizing student files and information, and keeping track of student performance
• Communicated with parents, especially Spanish speaking only parents, about any questions they might have, and information about new programs their children could join

Master Of Education - Med, Education

Master's degree in Urban Education, with an emphasis on Policy & Administration.

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: Daily Bruin, Project BRITE