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Greensboro, North Carolina

Handle everything! Website design, reservations, bookkeeping, advertising, cooking & housekeeping.GreenGateGuest.com

Greensboro, North Carolina

• Remodeled House into Bed & Breakfast
• Created Website
• Wrote & Executed Business Plan
• SetUp Accounting System

Finances: all estimating, calculation of costs of goods and services, purchasing, billing, collections and taxes. Graphic designing, illustrating & typesetting (in English & Hebrew); including: advertisements, newsletters, invitations, programs, posters, signage, letterhead, CD Design, beverage labels, business cards and forms, and PowerPoint.

6840 N. Sacramento Avenue, Chicago, IL 60645

• Planned and Supervised Special Events:
• Hired entertainment & arranged for their needs
• Worked with committee to plan all details
• Planned the 'flow of event'
• Created booklets and/or programs Recruited, Evaluated & Hired Live Entertainment for Weekly Programs:Performers, Musicians, Comedians, & LecturersScheduled all Daily & Weekly Public Events:
• Exercise Classes

3751 North Broadway, Chicago, Illinois 60613

*PART-TIMECreated & Kept Records:Payroll, Attendance, Registration, Contributions, Progress Reports, Student Allergies & Issues, etc.Planned and Coordinated events;Designed and Implemented Forms (directories, attendance, etc);Ordered and Inventoried Supplies (School, Art & Office);... as well as Special Projects to support Principal & Teaching staff.

3210 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL 60062

• Elementary School Office Manager
• Sager Solomon Schechter Day School (K-8) -- I joined the team as the Elementary & Middle Schools were merging into one school and my position was eliminated as part of a school-wide budget cut 17 months later.

6424 Forward Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217

-- Left position to join my husband in Chicago & join SSDS --Highlights of responsibilities: Scheduled all building usage for school events and facility rentals; Scripted email communications between school and parents; Maintained and published (in print & online) school calendar of events; Arranged for all teacher coverage; coordinated Substitute.

4905 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Developed Curriculum and Taught art classes for all age groups -- from Kindergartners through Ninth graders -- creating lessons, which connect art projects to each grade’s general curriculum [Chai Reform curriculum], holidays and Israel.

Pittsburgh, PA

Six Productions + many WorkshopsBringing together Jewish women of diverse backgrounds and views -- from unaffiliated to Lubavitch, ages 23-68 -- the troupe used theatre to explore and present issues. Together, through improvisation and soul-searching, we explored our own personal experiences as Jewish women, broke-down stereotypes and fostered relationships.

2740 Beechwood Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15217

• Art Specialist/Judaic Consultant
• 2001-2009 Workshop Creator/Presenter; provided Judaic arts & crafts ideas for teachers throughout the Northwestern Pennsylvania region; purchased art supplies; maintained laminator; staffed teacher center. Support.
• 1999-2006Planned and coordinated special events and activities; worked as a team with teachers and administrator; communicated with parents and students through personal contact and print matter (flyers, brochures.

Indianola, PA

Wrote entire curriculum;Taught all arts & crafts classes for 4-14 year-olds;Designed and constructed stage sets for all camp musicals;Created themes for each week of camp;Supervised two assistants.

Pittsburgh, PA

Co-Taught, Pre-Kindergarten ClassCreated and implemented lesson plans in Language Arts and JudaicsAssisted in implementing other teacher’s lesson plans

My Home

Operated a Family Daycare in my home.Facilitated imaginative play.Prepared & served organic food.Managed all financial aspects of the business.

Theatre Arts & Sociology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Psi Omega (National Theatre Honor Society), Contra Dancing, CampingActing & Technical Roles in Many.

Teaching The Shoah And Anti-Semitism

Nine-Day Seminar: A Unique Seminar for English speaking educators from around the world to study at the International School for Holocaust.

Facebook For Non-Profits: Selling Your Cause

One-day workshop

Kesharim / Connections

Two-Year Course [2-hour, weekly sessions + 2-weeks in Israel] “How can we put Israel into all of our lessons?" With this question we began.

Mekorot, Foundations In Pedagogy For Jewish Education

120-hour course: Each Two-Hour class was split between a Pedagogy Topic and a Judaic Topic. Goal of the course was to raise the quality of.

Creating Webquests For Judaic'S Courses

Three Weeks: Hands-On Workshop in the Creation of Webquests and their use in the modern classroom. Co-Sponsors: Associated Talmud Torahs/.

Theatre, Drafting & Secretarial Skills

Activities and Societies: Theatrical Productions: On-Stage & Back-Stage / GASP: Groveton Alliance to Stop Pollution