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Waltham, Massachusetts

- Plan and facilitate life skills and community-based instruction (CBI) for eight (8) young adults, aged 18-22, with Autism Spectrum Disorder in coordination with Transitions Program case managers.- Instruct students utilizing a therapeutic milieu and Applied Behavior Analysis (where applicable) to help them work on skills, build rapport with students via frequent opportunities for informal and formal social interaction at school and out in community.- Ensure students are able to access, and participate with, various community resources by safely transporting students off-site.- Encourage students to build confidence and independence in their educational programming via scaffolded support that begins with frequent direct instruction and intervention until fading with less intervention; ideally allowing students to complete tasks and lessons with no direct intervention (e.g. shop for groceries at supermarket.- Research and contact prospective volunteer/internship/job sites for students to access in coordination with Transitions Program case managers.- Ensure that students engage in safe and positive social interactions with their peers utilzing a Positive Behavior Intervention & Support (PBIS) framework

- Provided home-based ABA therapies/interventions, in consultation with a BCBA, with district-based clients.

- Provided home, and community-based, programs and services utilizing the principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for two clients in coordination with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), which are consistent with clients’ district Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).- Recorded, tracked, and assessed data in collaboration with each client’s family and BCBA’s while maintaining Procedural Integrity (PI) and Inter-Observer Agreement (IOA) in the data collection process under supervision of BCBA’s.- Engaged with families and their clients in a professional, and empathetic, manner that allows for rapport to build in better serving the clients with facilitating their behavioral services programs

Brookline, Ma

- Implemented Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and behavioral plans for 2-3 elementary students in 1:1 and small group settings.- Recorded, tracked, and assessed data in collaboration with Special Education teachers and Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) within the Reaching Independence through Structured Independence (RISE) program.- Implemented behavioral programs utilizing Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for 2-3 elementary students in a home setting after school in collaboration with BCBA from the RISE program, and families of students.- Built rapport with, and guided, students so as to help them achieve growth in social and academic skills to allow for mainstream inclusion in both academics and with peers.

Needham, Massachusetts

- Successfully oversee and implement daily wake-up routines for 9 severe-special needs residential students in coordination with overnight residential staff in preparation for school day. - Serve as a behavioral management and academic aide in a severe-special needs classroom in cooperation with a lead and assistant teacher overseeing nine students spanning academic needs from grades 6 through 8. - Utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBA) and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) to help both residential and day-school students successfully address severe behavioral needs throughout school day in order to best prepare them for social and academic success.

Watertown, Ma

- Collaborate with Lead Instructor and Site Coordinator at Cunniff Elementary School in implementing project-based learning (PBL) with 20 third grade students, culminating in a Spring Family Night event that demonstrates student accomplishments. - Work 1:1 with a severe special-needs student during afterschool program and during school day as an on-call substitute.

Amherst, Ma

- Teaching Assistant for Professor La Follette’s Ancient to Renaissance Art History Survey.- Instructed and mentored two discussion sections totaling 25 undergraduate students in a new “team based learning” environment (TBL).- Developed quizzes and exams for assessing student progress, facilitated student leddiscussions on lecture material and team projects that are presented in discussion sections.

Needham, Ma

- Managed a weekly rotation of 3-6 students in core reading, writing, and math curricula, and assessedprogress via the California Assessment Test (CAT).- Tutored three students for the SAT Critical Reading exam, achieving steady progress via SATpractice tests.

Greater Boston Area

- Developed five object-centric lesson plans for K-12 educators for upcoming 2014-2015 academic year. Lesson subjects included Leonardo da Vinci, Francisco Goya, World War I posters, - Edited and managed MFA For Educators website, featuring 200+ lessons utilizing the MFA collections.- Trained in the Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) approach for use with students and gallery visitors.- Assisted with relevant Education Department projects under advisement of the Manager of School & Teacher Partnerships.

Amherst, Massahusetts

- Teaching Assistant for Professor Vickery's History, Architecture & The Built Environment Survey.- Advising 50 undergraduate students attending survey.-Grading written assignments of assigned cohort.- Assist instructor with other class duties as needed.

Greater Boston Area

- Americorps member serving on City Year team for Boston Public Schools - Provided attendance monitoring, English/Language Arts tutoring, behavior monitoring for 3rd grade class of 16 students.- Managed Starfish Corps elementary afterschool program comprised of homework support hour, enrichment activities, and social justice curriculum serving 30 students in grades 3-5.- Lead as team's Communications & Outreach Coordinator, providing timely written products & stories for City Year Boston Blog, Trotter Monthly Service Briefings. Served as in-kinding liason for any service-related donated goods.

Vermont

- Americorps Classroom & Afterschool Coordinator for eight northern VT elementary schools participating in the Digital Wish School Modernization Initiative - part of the larger e-Vermont community broadband project. - Assisted Northern Trainer with 1:1 computing instruction aligned with VT common core curriculum.- Lead afterschool programs at 5 participating schools with Microsoft Kodu game development program.- Assisted Executive Director with: 5 data-based research initiatives, Grant application research, Afterschool Symposium event planning Public relations projects for northern VT schools partnered with Digital Wish, Digital Wish inventory cataloging, Digital Wish website testing & editing.

Master'S Candidate (Leave Of Absence), Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Classical Civilization And Art History

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