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Alpharetta, Ga

➢ Successfully managed and led the multi-year process (2015-2018) of Alpharetta High School becoming an authorized International Baccalaureate World School as of spring 2018. ➢ Manage all aspects of the school’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme including personnel and capital resources. ➢ Build future program capacity by developing strategic vision and goals.➢ Report regularly to school leadership and external stakeholders to update and promote programs of community and school interest or significance. ➢ Collaborate with other internal stakeholders and diverse cost centers to instruct other teachers to effectively integrate emerging technologies and pedagogy within current environments.➢ Create and maintain consistent school-wide branding elements for print and web. ➢ Design and draft community-facing graphical communications, such as school prospectus, profile, and other informational and promotional resources. ➢ Coach new and developing staff members in effective instructional methodologies to promote engagement and efficiency through diversity of instructional techniques and learning strategies. ➢ Conduct regular walkthroughs aligned to the Teacher Keys (TKES) standards to provide specific evaluations of teacher and staff effectiveness as part of a yearly review cycle. ➢ Prioritize yearly departmental budgetary requests to focus acquisition on the most beneficial resources and to reduce expenditures in other areas of less value. ➢ Develop, organize, promote, and lead semi-annual “Teacher for a Day” experience to build relationships between the school and outside community. ➢ Led the development and drafting of new school-wide mission and vision statements (2016).

Alpharetta, Ga

➢ Managed department of 19 direct reports to provide support and instructional coaching/mentoring. ➢ Developed a hiring philosophy based on feedback from senior administration and conducted interviews of potential employees to make hiring recommendations. ➢ Developed instructional units, scope, and sequence based on established learning objectives.➢ Analyzed and compared existing workflows to customize an implementation methodology for emerging technologies integration into a classroom setting. ➢ Evaluated data from both formative and summative assessments and selected the most appropriate instructional strategies/methodologies to maximize student learning and growth.➢ Used digital delivery applications to develop learning modules for both student and adult learning.➢ Provided multimodal instruction that differentiated content, process, product, and/or learning environment to meet the diverse needs of a group of learners. ➢ Instructed creative arts magazine students in the areas of magazine journalism, with specific emphasis on writing, editing, design, layout, and publishing. ➢ Guided students in drafting customized stylistic guidelines for all publication writing and content. ➢ Piloted implementation of 1:1 devices in classroom environment (2014-2015). ➢ Planned and led an annual professional development day that coordinated community stakeholders and school business partners to provide practical learning for student journalists (2013-2015). ➢ Organized and coordinated a professional development experience for approximately 120 total staff members across three different content areas from five different North Fulton County schools (2014).

Alpharetta, Ga

➢ Served as Grade Level Team Lead to coordinate data-gathering and analysis initiatives to guide lesson-planning and instruction. ➢ Implemented various learning and behavioral theories to customize learning experiences.➢ Developed literary magazine program and guided to profitability within three years. ➢ Managed yearbook budget of $100k+ to increase yearly sales and extend content coverage.➢ Part of a five-person subcommittee to develop, write, and edit the language for specific behavioral criteria used to implement a systematic approach for recognizing and reinforcing positive behavior.

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: Baptist Campus Ministry (formerly Baptist Student Union).Earned minor degree in history. Completed a course.

Ma, Biblical Studies