Emma Goodwin Email & Phone Number

Glenview, Illinois

• Manages and coaches a team of up to sixteen staff members across three roles including Education Specialists, Art Studio Facilitators, and various internships. Coordinates team development strategies, individual goal setting and completion, and project management.• Conducts onboarding and training for new Education Staff, including role and expectation setting for over 20 internal museum programs and a variety of outreach programs. Coaches staff on the development and coordination of these individually assigned projects.• Tracks and manages budgets for various budgets, ranging from large grant programs to specific events and activities.• Leads outreach efforts with at-need schools, childcare centers, and community organizations through professional development programs, community festivals and events, field trip scholarships, free museum visits, and in-school activities.• Directly conducts professional development training in-person for up to 100 attendees per day, and virtually for up to 200 attendees per day.• Spearheads a flagship grant program to deploy curriculum targeted to the needs of traditionally marginalized and low-income schools and childcare centers. Coordinates recruitment and application process and nurtures pivotal relationships with community stakeholders at schools in Lake and Cook counties. Facilitates teacher interactions and engagement through the duration of the program, incorporating feedback for participant-centered improvements. Assessed post-program impact to grow the program from 40 annual participants to 90 participants in one year. • Participates in the Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee to facilitate program accessibility and develop policies rooted in Anti-Racism. • Collaborates with various museum departments to grow a variety of outreach and accessibility programs, including free museum admission days for various communities, including children and families with disabilities and military families.

Greater Chicago Area

• Assisted with ongoing marketing campaigns with product sponsors.• Emailed press releases, media alerts and other media materials to local stores and childcare centers.• Efficiently set up event stages for the WTTW Kids Fun Food Fest and WTTW Kids Big Idea Live Show.• Interacted with children at both events and facilitated a food craft with attendees of the Fun Food Fest.• Photographed events and distributed photos to families shortly after events.• Contacted local community businesses to gauge interest in sponsorship and reached out to local child care centers to invite them to our live events.• Created impactful relationships with live show hosts to ensure future partnerships and event potential.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Created daily lesson plans for different content areas, including mathematics, literacy, storytime, social emotional learning and physical education to ensure the daily safety, progress, and growth of twenty students.• Built relationships with parents and community members and communicated with educational stakeholders. • Collaborated and partnered with an assistant teacher in the classroom. • Implemented behavior management strategies catered to the specific needs of each child.• Facilitated English language development for approximately a third of students who are native French or Spanish speakers.• Experienced in the Project Approach, Conscious Discipline, The Creative Curriculum, Teaching Strategies Gold, and used Reggio Emilia inspired methods of classroom organization.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Selected from over 49,000 applicants nationwide to join the national teacher corps of 3,500 people who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools.• Participated in intensive training program to develop the skills and knowledge needed to achieve significant gains in student achievement.• Engaged in a full schedule of professional development activities, including diversity seminars, culturally responsive pedagogy trainings, and cohort meetings specifically catered to early childhood teaching and educational equity.• Taught in a summer school program run by Teach for America for low-income students at Robinson Elementary in Houston, Texas, under the supervision of a faculty of experienced teachers.

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

• Worked on Salesforce platform to recommend and source qualified individuals for the Teach for America recruitment team• Informed community members and students on the movement toward educational equity by building awareness across the University of Illinois campus• Hosted, curated and planned events with multiple campus leaders and groups to spread awareness on how to combat educational inequity and drive recruitment• Connected to top campus leaders and recruited interested individuals to apply for Teach for America • Informed prospective corps members about interview and application process• Coordinated and planned various recruitment events such as tabling, classroom visits and panels• Joined the Teach for America 2017 corps the following June in Indianapolis

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature/Letters, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Alpha Omicron Pi, Daily Illini, WPGU Radio

Master'S Degree, Early Childhood Education And Teaching

• Completed coursework includes Best Practices in Elementary Math and Science, Second Language Learning, Family and Teacher in Diverse.

European Union Studies

Study abroad experience at KU-Leuven with a main focus on the European Union, including classes taught by EU officials.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Student Council, Marching Band, Symphonic Band, President's Club, school newspaper