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Detroit, Mi, Us

Detroit, Mi, Us

Michigan, Upstate New York

Account Manager for schools in Michigan and Upstate New York. Responsible for sales, installation, and training of the VariQuest Suite of Visual Learning Tools. VariQuest promotes student engagement, impacts student achievement, reinforces motivation, and improves communication with students, teachers, administrators, parents and community.

Hamtracmk Michigan

Points of Pride: Principal team instructional bridge builder of learning environment culture and climate. Visionary leader, strategic thinker and skillful communicator. Professional Development driven. Hire and direct talent into positions that ultimately guide WHAT IS BEST FOR STUDENTS? Best practice minded, financial intelligence, behavior agent, decision maker, value transparency and policy that benefits students. Skillful feedback using SBI method...situation, behavior, impact. Problem solver, innovative, compliance and school improvement minded.

Inkster, Michigan, United States

Points of Pride: Our school is conveniently located on the corner of Inkster Road & Woodsfield Street, between Michigan Avenue and Cherry Hill. We boast the highest academic growth scores in Metro Detroit--with an average of 1.5 years of student growth in Math and Reading each school year! Our accredited academic program is aligned to Michigan Academic Standards and enriched with Education Technology to accelerate student learning & readiness. We offer a free after school program with academic enrichment opportunities for students in addition to extracurricular activities such as Basketball & Cheerleading.

Redford, Michigan (Located At Old Bishop Borgess High School)

Points of Pride: Advanced school instructional leader of student and staff learning culture, team builder. 953 students in K-8 urban setting. M-STEP Proficiency gains in Math and Reading. Under my watch teams build: Successful distance learning online for students, School wide Unwrapping Priority/Power Standards processes (coach teachers on how to ID standards: verbs, nouns, prepositions to write kid friendly Learning Targets. Coach teachers on implications for lesson plan development and how do we know our students delivered on standards? Use of common assessments, sequence lessons and tasks to predict performance to demonstrate understanding in a virtual and face-to-face learning environment. I Ready monthly (interim) growth monitoring assessments as quick check ins on skills. Culture builder of daily morning and afternoon Harambee and Gathering Room 15 minute power student/staff high expectation assemblies. Technology Professional Development for Teachers to include Zoom Meetings, Google Suite: Classroom/Meet, Hangouts, Go-To-Connect, ISLPs, Flipped Classroom, Intense Student Support Network ISSN, Innovator of 3I Technology Labs for I-Ready (personalized learning 110 minutes per week reading, math, learning games), IXL and Illuminate Basic/Advanced, TeachBoost Documents for PDPs. High Parent Engagement Programs, Innovator of Male Mentor Saturday Academy, Innovation of College Themed School, HSBU, IVY League and BIG Ten themed hallways. $15K Teacher Lounge Makeover and $48K Learning Garden Grant. Life changing student honor assemblies: Principal Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude Awards & I-Ready for lesson completions; Teacher Celebration Awards, Showcase of Learning for Growth Mindset; PD Library; Students of the Month. Teachers of the Week. Led Charter School Renewal Process school wide through Grand Valley State University authorizer.

2470 Collingwood St., Detroit, Michigan. Historic Boston-Edison Community

Points of Pride: Instructional Team Leader over turnaround school of 688 students. NWEA MAP Growth ELA 18% to 48% over 4 years. MAP Math Growth 14% to 62% over 4 years using: 1) Lesson Plan coaching and mentoring 2) PLCs with grade level teams, 1:1s 3) Small groups based on instructional groups of NWEA Map 4) Building a culture where teachers feel supported 5) Unpacking standards using targeted instructional learning cycles 6) Data digs 7) Process for consistent climate, culture and PBIS, selective student centered programs Clear vision, leader of positive culture, values and high expectations for learning. Knowledge builder of curriculum and high yield instructional practices. Writer and effective education communicator. Strong interpersonal skills, policy developer, data-based progress monitor. Collaborator of staff and community. Provider of actionable feedback and research based instructional practices and system for family engagement. Accomplishments: Over 4 years 82 eighth graders accepted into Cass Technical, Renaissance and Martin Luther King application high schools; GetSchooled Attendance Campaign award winning DPSCD Average Daily Attendance Champions 4 times in a row. DPSCD Durfee ADA increased 64% to 88%. Google “Durfee and Getschooled Attendance and also competitive winners of Durfee Target Library Makeover, Durfee Carson School Scholars Fund Reading Room and Durfee Life Remodeled Renovation.” Featured in Michigan Chronicle and LifeRemodeled, Detroit News, Winners of Transformers Movie Preview: Age of and Diggy Simmons & Trevor Jackson Student Presentation. Presenter at DPSCD Principals meeting on Durfee successes in attendance and middle school culture.

Detroit Collegiate Preparatory At Northwestern High School Detroit Michigan

Points of Pride: Team Instructional School Leader of nationally known Johns Hopkins Talent Development achievement model as founding Principal. Our team recruited 200 students in 9th and 10th grade academy to attend Northwestern High School over two years. School design model focus was on attendance, behavior, course performance and early warning indicators process. Two year stats: 95% average daily attendance. 12 out of school suspensions year one. 19 out of school suspensions year two. Student school wide grade point average year one 2.70 and 2.5 gpa year two. Founder and namer of Detroit Collegiate Preparatory. School grew to be renamed Detroit Collegiate Prep @ Northwestern. Selected Principal after winning National Search. Johns Hopkins National Presenter on School Culture to Principals and Executives to Diplomas Now Schools. City Year National Panel Speaker at Congressional Luncheon, Washington, D.C. Featured in American Federation of Teacher November 12, 2012. Featured in DFT Newsletter “Flipping Negatives into Positives: Community Grade Conferences December 2011,” K12 Academics.com, CBS Detroit, John’s Hopkins Diplomas Now E-Newsletter.

Detroit, Michigan

Points of Pride: Leader of mathematics and English teacher evaluation and coaching for a staff of 95 teachers and 1900 students. Test supervisor over ACTMME, SAT (students from U.S. & Canada) PSAT and NAEP. School Improvement Director of AdvanceED. DPS Central Office SIP Instructional Specialist over 4 schools during summer. Lead grant writer of winning School Improvement Grant SIG $5.6 million Obama Race for Top Funds, 9th Grade Academy Assistant Principal Culture Builder. Over school wide partnership with Edison Learning and Founding Principal of Mumford Second Chance Night High School. “AP Martin that is the kind of leadership I need to see,” stated Robert Bobb, Emergency Financial Manager in an email to me in 2010 that led to the founding of the Second Chance School. At the time 572 students were overage and under credit. These students needed an alternative way to gain credit recovery to graduate from high school. The Second Chance program went on to graduate over 240 students over two years. Mumford High School went on to top all DPS Second Chance schools in graduation rates 2011-2013.

Greater Detroit Area

Points of Pride: Exemplary Teacher of British Literature, American Literature, African American Literature, Journalistic Writing and Yearbook. Michigan Department of Education Teacher Corps Scholar, Excellence Awards Teacher of Year as selected by students. Leadership Award as selected by Osborn administrators. Taught 100s of Charlotte Danielson Distinguished Level Lessons to the most incredible students on earth. Publisher of PTO newsletters and award winning student publication “The Born” awarded by Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA). School population 1700 students.

20700 Civic Center Dr. Southfield, Michigan

God's Work Through Me: Publisher of free 20k monthly newspaper circulation to metropolitan Detroit Christian church and community. Newspaper content included: current local, national and international Christian news wire stories, editorial, opinion, features, sports, entertainment and advertising.

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Points of Pride: Summer Journalistic Writing instructor Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) to middle and high school students from school districts throughout Michigan. Taught focus on facts, inverted pyramid, clarity-conciseness, objectivity, sources, fairness and balance. Facilitated teacher workgroups of middle school publication advisors to network, promote and support advancement of middle school newspapers and newsletters. Provided resources in the form of print presses, budget development, support and tools for lesson planning as premier primer for high school press.

Birmingham & Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Points of Pride: Featured teacher Birmingham Public Schools year 2000 Annual Report. Founding Chair Michigan Interscholastic Press Association Middle Schools (MIPA). Taught Journalistic Writing to 7/8th grade students. Also taught journalistic writing in summers at Michigan State University to middle and high school students, Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) Journalism Camps. ELA teacher Elements of Literature, Literature Circles, Readers Workshops, Journalism rubric developer. Four years of student newspaper excellence in partnership with printing by Observer Eccentric Newspaper, Birmingham and Bloomfield, MI. Founder/Advisor of #1 middle school newspaper in Michigan over four years. As founding adviser of “The Pulse” student newspaper for BCS grades 3-8. Over four year span students won over 100 awards in journalism categories: news writing, news analysis, news features, investigative news reporting, editorial writing and newspaper design and layout.

Global

Associate Undergraduate Faculty Member English 101 in CMU Extended Degree Program.

Instructor of Proposal Writing Basic and Advanced Courses; Introduction to Literature

Detroit, Michigan

Points of Pride: Selected by grade 9th grade students of Southeastern High School as candidate for Disney World’s National Teacher of Year. Teacher of expository (informational) writing: one, three and five paragraph writing and coach of research writing using AP parenthetical citation. Teacher of use of literary elements and reading skills. Building Writing coordinator and Site Based Management English Department representative.

2425 Tuxedo

Points of Pride: Coached over 500 students to go on to 4 and 2 year colleges, universities and skilled trade schools. English Teacher of grades 12, 11, 9. Taught British Literature, American Literature and African American Literature. Publications Adviser of The Central Student school newspaper that appeared monthly in the Detroit Free Press and “Centralite Yearbook.” Building Writing Coordinator of state, district wide and school based competitions. Boston Edison, Linwood, Dexter Avenue Community builder.

Detroit, Michigan

Points of Pride: Founder of Cadillac Gazette student publication: introduction basics of journalistic writing and ELA 7/8 Teacher of informational and narrative writing. Reading intervention teacher: comprehension and strategic reading of context clues, reading stamina, decoding, fluency, vocabulary/high frequency words and leisure reading. Parallel writing with understandings of narrative and expository texts as introduction to writing. Coached students around WHY-motivation for reading as pique interest to get inspired to read at least 15, 30, 45 minutes a day.

Detroit, Michigan

Points of Pride: Tracked student data for timed math skills, place value, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, basic geometry, solving for area and perimeter. Taught reading for comprehension, reading skills including understanding parts of speech, grammar, usage, mechanics and sentence development/fluency, leisure reading and introduction to narrative and expository text. Developed strong relationships with students, parents and community.

Detroit, Michigan

Points of Pride: Teacher of math foundation skills, place value, multiplication charts, addition-subtraction, multiply-division, decimals, factors, fractions. Math fluency and understanding of relationships. Lesson planning, math curriculum design and wrote math raps to build inspiration/engagement with students. Memorable Highlight - First Independence Bank Tour. Exposed students to relevance real world math banking context.

Broadhead Naval Academy 7600 East Jefferson Det., Mi

Points of Pride: Personnel Administrator United States Marine Corps Active and Inactive Reserves MOS 0121 and 0131. Graduated 3rd in Class of 61 Marines USMC Personnel Administration School, Oceanside, CA. Boot Camp Awards San Diego, CA: Platoon Guide and Squad Leader Rotations; Earned Perfect 300 Physical Fitness Training (PFT), 17 minute 20 second 3 mile run.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Points of Pride: Technical writer UTA Ford Motor Company engineering products, services, parts and supplies.

Troy, Michigan, United States

Public Affairs Reporter of over 50 news articles, features for Kmart stores worldwide. Stories published in K Liner, First Edition, Management News, Annual Reports.

Superintendent Academy, Leadership, Graduate

Doctorate In Education Leadership Administration, Central Office Advanced Education Leadership, 3.46 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Advanced Leadership systems and structures for success.Peer review research confirms that teacher quality is one.

Masters Of Public Administration, K-12 Education Administration And Principalship Leadership, Summa Cum Laude 3.9 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Panelist speaker at National Association for Professors of Education Leadership during summer 2016.Teachers.

Masters Of Arts In Teaching, Secondary English Education, Magna Cum Laude 3.70 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Teacher Corps Scholarship, paid for 100% graduate school tuition compliments of Michigan Department.

Bachelors Of Arts Journalism/English Literature Madonna, Journalistic Writing For Newspapers/Magazines, Undergraduate 2.63 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Omega Psi Phi, President (Basileus), Chaplain, Dean of Pledges; United States Marines Corps Reservist (Honorable.