Immediate supervisor for all Adult Education programming for Utica Community Schools; including High School Completion and English as a Second Language programs. • Enhancing school culture by implementing culturally responsive and equitable practices that help students achieve their personal and academic goals at any age. • Evaluates, reviews, and adjusts services, curriculum, instructional practices, and staff performance to meet the needs of adult learners based on research and data analysis. • Ensures program and staff compliance with district policies and procedures, collective bargaining procedures, and grant reporting guidelines and regulations. • Communicates and collaborates with students and staff to ensure lifelong learning and a better quality of life for all stakeholders.

Applied leadership responsibilities in cooperation with administration on the School Improvement Team and District Instructional Technology Team, to enhance organizational effectiveness, using research-based theories and data analysis. • Facilitating building-wide Professional Learning Community Professional Development to create, reflect, and improve Literacy Instruction across all content areas. • Instructing multiple ELA courses and other online learning courses. • Analyzing data, targeting students for Tiers 2 and 3 reading interventions, and adjusting instruction to improve literacy proficiency more effectively for each student, in an alternative education setting.• Co-facilitating Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) initiatives to improve the quality of student experiences and success within the program.

Instructed English 7 and 8 using the Scholastic READ 180 program with fidelity for targeted Tier 3 intervention students. • Successfully improved literacy comprehension with targeted students in a condensed period, leveraging statistical analysis to improve instruction.

Curriculum, Instruction, PBIS, and ELA 11th/12 Grade

9th and 10th grade ELA, Corrective Reading, Safe and Supportive Schools Coordinated School Health Committee, Soccer Coach, SWAG Student Organization Advisory

Teach American Literature to 11th grade students in an At-Risk, rural setting.

o Daily substitute teaching for various classrooms, buildings, and school districts. o Implement teachers' lesson plans while they cannot be in their classrooms. o Manage the classroom independently at the same time as guiding the students through their daily lessons. o Create positive relationships with school districts and their students.

Substituted for teachers that were out sick and managed their classes while teaching the lesson to the students.

Facilitated the adult high school to provide successful opportunities for students to obtain high school credits and graduated, in the absence of the regular director.

o Cashiered for both the registers and the service desk.

Tauught 7th grade language arts.

o Independently taught math to at-risk 8th graders entering high school.o Taught students while they worked through their specialized computer program created by Carnegie Learning.o Supplemented the computer program with lessons taught to the entire class.o Successfully helped students make good progress on their math skills.