Administer assessments, provide reporting and interpret results to inform team of findings to drive student interventions. Apply research based practices to teacher/parent/administration consultation to benefit student learning and social emotional well-being. Provide direct mental health and social emotional support to students. Support with Risk Assessments and follow up procedures to provide students and staff with safe learning environment.

• Administered and interpreted a variety of test instruments to evaluate cognitive and academic abilities while being culturally sensitive.• Consulted with teachers and administration to help provide research-based techniques to address learning and behavior. Provided professional development with a focus on Positive Behavior Interventions and Support.• Intervention skills for both academic and behavior needs with over 1 school year of direct supervision from a school psychologist, licensed psychologist and PsyD psychologist.• Effective member of team, collaborating continuously before, during and after multi-disciplinary and IEP meetings.

Provided initial intake of needs and targeted Neurofeedback Therapy under the supervision of Licensed Psychologist. Attended weekly Supervision sessions to discuss cases and provide targeted therapy based on expressed symptoms. Wrote for company blog based on current research.

Education and Social Skills Building Counselor for students with executive functioning needs as well as behavior struggles. Co-wrote and recorded training for new counselors to support behavior expectations. Created a toolkit to bank resources to meet needs for students who struggle with social emotional skills and executive function deficits.

• Taught Common Core ELA standards curriculum to remedial through Honors level students. Successfully submitted curriculum for College Board of Education credit approval. • Taught seniors how to find and synthesize credible research, presentation strategies and connected to community resources using 21st century skills.• Led two weekly female groups using character building curriculum to empower and improve self-esteem.

• Taught English Language Arts in order to increase critical thinking and reading skills along with listening, speaking and writing standards.• Provided weekly tutoring to support High School athletes and students involved in extracurricular activities.• Assisted in redesigning the 9th grade English curriculum to increase engagement and rigor.• Created curriculum and taught senior level speech class to increase college and career readiness.

• Wrote grant proposals and designed programs to target and assist English Learners at the secondary level. • Created and led Professional Development to increase best practices to reach the schools site’s 1/3 EL population.• Developed after school tutoring program to improve academic discourse, language development and college/career readiness.• Planned monthly parent engagement activities to create a welcoming atmosphere and incorporate the community.• Mentor Teacher for the district performing observations, feedback and model teaching to exemplify classroom management strategies. Wrote a five chapter training manual to assist new teachers.• Director of ELL summer program to improve literacy. Led hiring, curriculum design, ordering of materials, and registration to target EL academic language growth.

• Taught full inclusion classes using Read 180/System 44 stations, Thinking Maps, and College Board of Education curriculum in a Title 1 School. • Led summer school program from College Board of Education to prepare students for higher education (2007-2012).• Member of Learning Improvement Team to plan school trainings, interventions, write the School Improvement Plan and grants (2009-2016).• Met weekly with GAP and homeless youth HOPE program students to increase attendance and target failing students using a character building curriculum.• Led bi-weekly reading intervention after school program with integrated technology.• Trained and certified in WIDA test to identify level of English Language Learners in school.• Certified to score state 8th grade and High School Writing Proficiency exams. • English Department Chair and Mentor Teacher (2014-2015)