• Creating and overseeing weekly school-wide professional development to elevate and replicate best instructional practices• Reducing disciplinary referrals and suspensions by 30% over a one-year period• Significantly increased parental involvement, by an estimated 33% within one school year• Increasing previous year numbers regarding student achievement, with a focus on closing the gap with emphasis on reading and mathematics. • Developing a master schedule that focuses on student academic needs. • Creating a mentoring program, activities, and partnerships for African American male students• Creating and implementing complimentary staff luncheon program to boost teacher morale• Creating and implementing school-wide academic and behavioral intervention supports, including PBIS initiatives• Creating and distributing the school’s newsletter for students and parents• Creating and overseeing the school’s student council• Providing professional development related to academic and behavioral intervention Duties Include:• Serving as the instructional leader with day-to-day management of approximately 400 students• Serving as instructional leadership and best practice as it relates to pedagogy• Working with staff to maintain and implement disciplinary standards, expectations, and interventions for students• Planning math, STEM and literature nights to engage community partners with the district

Advocated positive school positioning by: • Increasing student daily attendance by 20% from the previous year. over a 3-month period• Serving as the instructional and curricular leader for approximately 600 students and 25 instructors• Developing effective systems to ensure best practice for school safety• Developing relationships with community stakeholders, including corporate and religious entities• Driving appreciation of diversity by planning school-wide positive behavior incentive celebrations• Overseeing the recruitment, attainment and professional development of effective instructional staff• Writing enhancement grants that enabled the districts secondary schools to become 1:1 Apple institutions through the ConnectEd grant. Duties Included:• Enlisting instructional leadership to facilitate academic gains• Conducting disciplinary investigations• Engaging staff in instructional conversation to discuss best pedagogical practices.• Developing systems for formative and summative instructional walkthrough and evaluation• Developing and maintaining systems to satisfy local, state and federal reporting requirements• Monitoring student enrollment and attendance• Recruiting ancillary and substitute staff

Advocated positive district positioning by: • Collaborating with the Principal and Instructional Coaches to ensure students meetachievement expectations as determined by charter and state goals.• Creating and providing academic support and remediation for students at risk of failing and tocollaborate with teachers, parents, and administration to ensure student success at thecompletion of school.Duties Included:• Facilitating increases in student achievement by supporting the implementation of a viable curriculum.• Conducting instructional walk-through of assigned instructors.• Engaging staff in instructional conversation to discuss best pedagogical practices.• Management of student disciplinary issues and facilitation of dispute resolution.• Supervision of assigned athletic and extracurricular activities.

Advocated positive district positioning by: • Collaborating with Career and Technical Education instructors in developing relationships withbusinesses and post-secondary institutions to provide work-based learning andpost-secondary opportunities for Career and Technical Education students.• Writing and updating curriculum that meets the state and federal guidelines.• Creating and implementing the divisional marketing plan and budget in excess of $95,000, enlisting various media outlets such as print, radio, television, billboard and web-based advertisements.• Writing grants for corporate funding and support of district agricultural programs.• Doubling the total number of throughout the district within a 12-month period.Duties Included: • Monitoring approved Carl Perkins Grant budget in excess of $1.2 million for career and technical education programs.• Ensuring the alignment of business, marketing, and information technology curriculum with state standards.• Collaborating with instructors to develop relationships with corporate stakeholders and post-secondary institutions in an effort to provide work-based learning and post-secondary opportunities for students.• Consulting with educators regarding professional development opportunities and best practices for program improvement.• Advising high schools in recruiting, planning, implementing, and evaluating existing and potential agriculture programs.Business InstructorImagine College Preparatory High School – St. Louis, Missouri (2007-2010)Courses Instructed: Introductory Business; Web Design; Business Mathematics; Sports and Entertainment MarketingDuties Included:• Developed curriculum and lesson plans for course instruction.• Facilitated field trip activities as well as Junior Achievement initiatives.• Participated in the Beginning Teachers Mentoring program.• Served as an advisor for the school’s Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) and DECA student organization.