Taught 12th grade personal finance and entrepreneurial skills. Students developed practical real world business ideas, business plans, and business pitches. Students were able to navigate banking concepts, P2P platforms, and compound interest rates formulas. Coached the 2022 winner of Philadelphia Financial Scholars’ Citywide Business Pitch Competition.

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Investing in youth who provide remedies for their community’s deficit.

Providing guidance for young people in the Gateway to College Program. Organizes male engagement workshops, panel discussions, and establishes one-on-one mentoring relationships.

Left2Write works to provide 1) a platform for artist of all kinds 2) fundraise for companies doing tangible work in urban areas and 3) mobilizes people to be change agents in their community via social media.

Management & Observations:Student passion project, passion fairs, advisor lesson plans (for high school), Passion Project Speakers Bureau, Community Engagement, Civic Engagement, Shadow Days, Internships, Social Media and Student Exhibitions.Teaching:career/internship etiquette, branding, elevator pitch, project development, emailing professionals, developing social capital, passive income, networking, resume, and maintenance elective.Recruitment:interns and professional for volunteer work.Coordinates 2 fairs throughout the year that allow students to either find information or display the process/progress of their PassionProject.*The Passion Fair 1.0 is similar to a Career Fair, Networking Event, andSpeed-dating. We bring professionals from all over the country to ourschool to advertise their business/product, while at the same time networkwith student that are passionate about developing tangible projects/products in specific career paths.*The Passion Fair 2.0 is the time for students to present a model of whatthey have committed to create. Professionals come to our school to evaluate the student's progress and offer advice and support to make the project asuccess.DeAndre Bing Scholarship Fund (Committee Manager):Passion for Health & Wellness Project Grant (Committee Manager):

Explored behavior modification strategies for Life Skills Support students.Instructed phonics and math groups.Assisted LSS team with keep students on target with their IEP'sConnected LSS team members to Autism Inclusion initiatives.Established and coached school boy's basketball team.Trained players to compete with character and passion.

Developed leadership curriculum for junior counselors transitioning to counselor positions. Organized camp-wide games. Completed progress monitoring monitoring for campers with 504 plans and IEPs.

Develop a (3) fold Mentoring Program: Community Mentoring (Connected at-risk high school students with professional from UPENN, Drexel, CCP, local businesses and faith-based groups.)Peer Mentor (Connected incoming 9th graders with academically strong 11th graders. This relationship helped freshmen students acclimate to life in high school. Peer Mentors were part of a credit-bearing elective develop by a colleague and I. Moreover, the Peer Mentors received paid-internship through the mentoring program. During this internship, the mentors developed a curriculum for incoming mentees and mentors.)Community Service (Students connected with Service organization for isolated projects)Taught and helped develop a curriculum for a College Access Career Readiness class in West Philadelphia High School twilight program.

Engaged teenagers from Greater Philadelphia area through interactive bible studies.Coordinated and recruited for two (2) outreach concerts which provided free food, clothing, and music from artist from various continents.Lead a character formation and arcade for students from West Philadelphia High School.Connected youth to community service opportunities around the city.Inspired youth and adults to design and paint a mural of key accounts in the Bible.

Led a basketball enrichment program for 6th - 8th grade boys.Assisted with reading and math tutoring.Instructed a 7th grade literacy group through Freedom Schools and Children's Defense Fund.Filmed with a group of aspiring educators in a documentary produced by Amit Das of University of Pennsylvania.(http://www.gse.upenn.edu/features/urban/freedom)

Tutored students who were chronic repeaters.I was assigned a student who was in the ninth grade for the second time and reading on a kindergarten level. At the end of my first year, the student was tested on the sixth grade level.Formed a chess club as an incentive for students who were meeting benchmarks.Assistant Coach of University City High School: trained forwards and centers in low post techniques and rebounding.Connected the high school students with local businesses and opportunities to develop after-school programs for local elementary schools.Create computer-based murals and helped organize mass mural painting, park beautification and service days.