Emily Persaud Email & Phone Number

Westport, Ct

• Lead reading, writing, and math lessons for 20 students from Bridgeport public schools as part of Saturday & summer enrichment program• Plan lessons with co-teacher to target reading skills and development of number sense• Implement social-emotional curriculum and build classroom community• Manage, support, and monitor growth of classroom interns and volunteers

New York, Ny

• Strategically target data-driven instruction to support 27 students both with and without IEPs• Prepare students for NY State Test, with goals of 100% passing math and 85% passing ELA• Monitor students’ progress toward IEP goals & participated in IEP goal setting meetings• Engage students through modeling, shared reading and writing, Project-Based Learning, interactive read alouds, Contexts for Learning math curriculum, and Smartboard technology• Reinforce high expectations of student behavior, attendance, & work completion• Collaborate with grade team & school leadership through use of Google Drive & Google Docs• Foster strong relationships with students and their families through social media and meetings• Won Excellence Award for upholding values of excellence, teamwork, humor, & ownership

Hamden, Ct

• Provide group therapy, including rehabilitation/skill-building and therapeutic enrichment groups, to children and adolescents • Develop and implement treatment plans• Provide bi-weekly or weekly family therapy• Provide individual therapy as needed• Participate in psychiatric supervision, including presenting cases• Provide case management, including collaboration with and referrals to other social services• Conduct intake interviews and write biopsychosocial assessments, including diagnoses

Bridgeport And New Haven, Ct

Hamden, Ct

• Meet individually with students as required by their Individualized Education Plan or as determined by their needs• Co-facilitate group sessions, focusing on friendship skills and appropriate classroom behavior• Participate in Planning and Placement Team meetings• Complete social work evaluation as part of a multi-disciplinary assessment to determine eligibility for special education services• Teach an anti-violence curriculum in the classrooms and obtain pre- and post-test data to measure the curriculum’s effect on students’ emotional and social skills

Syracuse, Ny

• Organize and lead recreational activities for both an elementary after-school program and a teen program, both of which were primarily composed of recent refugees to the U.S.• Help children with homework and develop activities to teach English language skills• Co-organize a Refugee Academy, in which young people learn basic information about living in the U.S., and recreational program during the summer months• Supervise small staff of college students working as group leaders in the summer program

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Elementary Education And Teaching

Msw, Social Work

Ba, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu, Alpha Kappa Delta

Hs Diploma