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

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

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