Vanessa Garza Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Working with the Partnership Teacher Development team to improve classroom instruction across the network schools that is aligned with the Teaching and Learning Framework. Collaborating with the Teacher Development team's signature teacher development program, Partnership Pioneers (teacher leaders from various school sites in the network that are committed.

• Promoted from Administrator In Residence program to Assistant Principal at Animo South Los Angeles.
• Managed and coordinate all state testing (CELDT, CAHSEE, CST), CIF school athletics, and Title III compliance
• Coached 9 full-time teachers and perform bi-yearly instructional evaluations and multiple informal observation cycles each semester under the College Ready Teaching Framework
• Led the Safe and Civil committee (elected teacher leaders who oversee campus culture and serve as the members of the Discipline Review Board) and campus safety officers
• Collaborated with school leadership team on school-wide programs: instructional leadership, operations, budget, and facility needs
• Created a stronger college-bound school environment by acquiring hundreds of college pennants, literature, and items that served as decoration and educational materials for students and families

Greater Los Angeles Area

A member of a cohort of rising school leaders, I lead projects at different campuses in the school network on a quarterly basis. Each week, Administrators In Residence (AIRs) also receive leadership training and mentorship.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Providing students and their families with a unique, hands-on, inquiry-based Family Science program.

· Increased the API from 700 to 770 in the school's third year of operation with one-sixth of the student body receiving special education services · Implemented researched-based instructional strategies to all core content teachers via demo lessons, teacher observation cycles, and co-investigations · Co-facilitated all teacher performance reviews on a.

Charter School Leadership Academy, Inaugural Fellow

· Created high stakes reports: CBEDS, KIPP 5 year self assessment and 40% of the charter renewal petition · Coached teachers and routinely observed for improvement of their instructional delivery · Co-designed school-wide test prep program through CCSA data pilot program

· Designed and implemented professional development and programming to improve literacy in math · Served as literacy cadre representative in sixth grade mathematics and science · Achieved 100% of students improving 1.5 ­ 3.0 grade levels in science and mathematics

Taught 5th grade in East Harlem and continued in education in Los Angeles as a 6th grade teacher.

· Trained ten incoming corps members for six intensive weeks with over six hours of professional development daily and classroom observations that included daily feedback sessions · Report progress with data-driven tracking system using Excel to the school director th

Educational Administration, Charter School Focus

M.Ed., Education

Activities and Societies: Teach LAI first earned my CA teaching credential through Teach LA at Center X and continued the following year.

Fellowship, Public Affairs

Ba, Communications, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Mortar Board Honor Society, Hispanic Scholarship Foundation RecipientServed as Resident Advisor

Bachelor Of Arts, Communications

Credentials: CA Tier 1 Administrative Cerificate of Eligibility and CA Clear Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential

Diploma