• Motivated lower achieving students to personalized levels of success through academic differentiation and individual reinforcement.• Developed Common Core-based curriculum that was implemented successfully in both English and Honors English classrooms.• Applied current and up and coming technology to actively engage students of varied levels of learning in creative lessons that reinforced necessary reading and writing concepts.• Maintained positive parent-teacher communication through frequent phone calls, monthly newsletters, and virtual parent-teacher open house sessions.• Provided constructive and detailed feedback to student work, emphasizing areas of growth as well as highlighting areas that needed additional or continued instruction.• Taught students from a wide variety of cultural and socio-economic groups, providing individual instruction and differentiated options based on learning style and level of understanding. • Provided extended availability in order to facilitate active participation by meeting students where they are.

• Created and implemented lesson plans for advanced language arts students based on varied genres and styles of literature• Encouraged and fostered positive parent-teacher relationships through active communication• Cultivated positive and productive relationships with fellow educators, administration, and staff• Adapted teaching materials and methods according to individual student strengths and needs to ensure a challenging and supportive learning environment• Improved student’s analytical skills and critical understanding of varied American and British Literature• Discussed and demonstrated acting styles, character development, and personality projection as well as proper public speaking protocol• Fostered creativity and freedom of expression in a theater arts setting through a variety of both teacher-led, and student-led performances