Erin Nakayama Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, Us

I customize the Mindfish curriculum for each student’s distinct learning style, academic strengths, and goals. This comprehensive approach helps students gain mastery over the test and their own learning process at the same time. I chart the best course and keep students motivated, engaged, and supported on the way to a great score on the SAT, ACT, or PSAT. I empower students to excel in the classroom, develop essential study skills, and ignite a passion for learning that will shape their academic journey. As an Executive Function Coach, I focus on setting goals in collaboration with both the student and parent. I then work consistently with the student to develop daily plans to work toward their objectives. I help students strengthen skills essential for maintaining good grades. This includes working on areas such as working memory, sustained attention, time management, task initiation, and other executive functions critical for effective note-taking, task management, and academic achievement. I help students set long-term goals and understand the importance of their current actions in achieving these goals. This applies to areas like college transitions and the journey beyond high school. I work with students to improve response inhibition, emotional control, and metacognition. This helps them develop strategies for better social interactions and avoid conflicts in personal and professional settings. My coaching assists students in skills like task initiation, working memory, planning/prioritizing, organization, time management, and goal-directed persistence. These skills are essential for completing school projects effectively and avoiding last-minute stress. I work with students who have trouble keeping track of their belongings, including homework, school books, phones, keys, and extracurricular equipment. My coaches help develop organizational systems and routines to ensure everything stays in its place.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As a Workshop Instructor and Tutor with Educational Endeavors, I execute outcome-based lessons tailored to students’ needs, promoting self-efficacy, executive functioning, and organizational skills. I plan and conduct test prep workshops to prepare learners for high-stakes standardized testing. Additionally, I support students of all levels in mathematics, language arts, science, and reading comprehension. I prepare students for successful standardized testing, Advanced Placement exams, and academic improvement. In our partnership with Adler University, I serve as an Executive Functioning Coach to graduate students support students with executive functioning skills like time management and task initiation as well as social-emotional skills like building supportive relationships with classmates and addressing the self-doubt and shame that arise if they start to fall behind in school.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As the Director of Talent Recruitment, I strategize to recruit tutors who uphold Educational Endeavors' standards of excellence and to support our current roster. My approach considers our incoming tutor requests and allows me to draw from my vast experience as an educator and fostering relationships to evaluate and invest in human capital.

Denver, Co, Us

In my role as a private technique coach, I create training plans to help meet clients’ climbing goals. As a group climbing instructor, I develop and execute lesson plans that allow beginners to gain comfort with the gym and more experienced climbers to develop technique and endurance. I create a social experience in the facility that encourages membership retention and lifelong climbing enjoyment.Safety is our top priority, and I ensure all class participants and clients are meeting safety standards and using equipment properly.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

I helped develop a 4-month pipeline for young males who've had involvement in the criminal justice system in Chicago to teach them how to succeed in a year-long paid internship. I supported the program's instructors and tutors through coaching to optimize participant academic and social-emotional growth. I advised on and analyzed results from summative and formative assessments to support pedagogical decisions. I supported the recruitment and management of tutors and instructors and helped build and memorialize the mathematics curriculum. I edited and advised on the personal and corporate finance curriculum.

Chicago, Il, Us

As an Algebra and Physics instructor, I accommodated and modified assignments and content for students with a variety of learning needs. Using a variety of pedagogies such as the Harkness Model and project-based learning, I increased student ownership of objective mastery. I shared ownership over student mastery using Accelerated Math and a student-maintained mastery tracker. While at Bulls, I founded and managed the Bulls Book Club, an effort to engage low-performing students in literacy.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

As a contractor for this 20% project, I developed and organized classplans and classbooks within Gooru, a web application that serves as a resource for math and science educators and students grades 5-8. I researched and categorized open education sources, including educational videos, applications, interactives, texts, and quizzes, according to each math classplan. I ensured that the mapping of lessons accurately corresponds to the taxonomy of California state education standards. I then tailored classplans to educators, providing appropriate lesson plans and teacher resources, and structured classbooks so that they would be most useful to students by selecting and organizing the most useful resources.

I student taught for nine months in Eighth Grade Math, Accelerated Algebra 1, and a support class for struggling math students. While at Clague, I practiced a variety of teaching methods, often incorporating technology into lessons. I had the opportunity to found a daily Homework Lunch Club, in which I created an environment of support for students' relationships with mathematics through mentorship and conversation. I chaperoned Fun Nights and assisted in sporting events.

Zug, Ch

While at Holcim, I conducted monthly, quarterly, and annual EBITDA, overhead, and Distribution Cost analyses. I summarized and reported monthly CEO expenses, travel expenses, EBITDA, distribution costs, and shipping pattern reports. I was responsible for developing and executing processes for collecting specific overhead costs from across the company. I owned and executed the company-wide risk analysis, and I worked within a team to forecast budget assumptions.

Detroit, Mi, Us

As a Compuware intern, I managed a team of six to design and implement a customer management process resulting in a 140% improvement in lead generation and enhanced management visibility. I generated internal and external reports based on industry statistics and competitors for marketing and sales teams.

M.A., Education

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics