Jaime Behen Email & Phone Number

Danvers, Ma, Us

Greater New Orleans Region

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

- Cultivate, recruit, hire, coach and develop the leadership of a team of four MTLDs such that they effectively support and develop our 100+ corps members to achieve meaningful academic and personal growth with their students and deep personal growth and leadership development for themselves, resulting in a 14.3% higher engagement level with our program compared to All Corps Attendance last year and a 90.2% average positive sentiment on the mid-year survey for corps member’ self-efficacy and self-assessed leadership.- Define the floor and ceiling for classroom impact in Greater New Orleans classrooms and effectively use data to routinely assess against those measures to fully execute on all program implementation responsibility to a high level of fidelity towards program & regional goals.- Set vision & direction, as well as lead operationalization of onboarding strategies for incoming corps members each year including standing up our first Family Cohorts initiative and managing our corps member certification partnership, which resulted in 61% (11% above the rest of the non-TFA cohort) of our teacher cohort hitting the teach efficacy benchmark to receive certification at the conclusion of the first round of observations.- Interpret and implement corps member policies and procedures, including making and, as appropriate, communicating disciplinary decisions and actively manage corps member retention, resulting in a 4% positive increase in retention from last year.

Greater New Orleans Area

• Built meaningful relationships with corps members, school-level staff, administration, and people in the community that may offer differing perspectives, to build a culture that unites people around a common purpose and an aligned collective of support for a cohort size of 35 teachers.• Observed and coached 35 Teach for America Corps members, across seven school sites, in their classrooms to increase their effectiveness as educators inside and outside the classroom, examples include helping them build productive learning environments, increase rigor, design lesson plans, time management, connect with families, build relationships, and leverage their instructional and leadership skills. • Designed and facilitated learning experiences that create communities of collaboration to deepen corps members’ knowledge of diversity, equity and inclusion, by serving as a founding board member of Teach for America Greater New Orleans National LGBTQ+ Initiative Prism as well as designing and implementing the first ever White Identity Development for corps members through Teach for America in New Orleans. • Strategically plans and organizes schedule to observe and debrief with 35 corps members across eight schools, ranging from biweekly-monthly, as well as allocate time for other tasks, meetings, and professional development as far as three months in advance.

Tulsa, Ok

- Created and contributed to a welcoming, strong, and engaged culture by building relationships, recognizing the value in the differences people bring to the work (in identity and/or perspective), and fostering a community grounded in our shared goals.- Understood and valued the contributions and work of others and work strategically with and alongside them in order to execute on responsibilities, maximize institute-wide impact and solve problems. - Cultivated the growth and development of others through execution of basic role responsibilities, differentiating and customizing support based on stakeholder need, maximizing and using time effectively and leveraging existing resources and structures. - Leveraged data, prior experience, and knowledge of the institute model to make decisions about strategic actions to take that move the work towards prioritized outcomes at the student, corps member, staff and school level.- Prepared and executed staff meetings/school team meetings in a way that staff have multiple meaningful opportunities to engage in collaborative strategic reflection and planning.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Beverly, Ma

- Developed and executed comprehensive curriculum, covering topics such as conflict management, diversity, community bonding, and mental health, for the initial and on-going training of 65 Resident Assistants. - Supervised two Residence Directors, and holds weekly check-ins with them around goal setting, soliciting/giving feedback, brainstorming and progress monitoring, then tailors future support based on their needs. - Assisted Central Office staff with brainstorming, creating, maintaining and updating departmental processes and professional development for the department.- Directly responsible for the supervision, safety, upkeep and programming efforts of residents within Marblehead Hall.

Beverly, Ma

- Provided leadership to staff and students in the positive development of a community, based upon the recognition of and consideration for the right, property and privileges of one another.- Identified at risk students and works alongside multiple stakeholders to design, implement, monitor and complete a positive intervention plan based on the specific needs of the individual.- Responsible for behavior management and discipline within the Bayview Residence Hall and facilitates the mediations of student conflict.- Actively provided support to other Residence Directors and students in case of illness, emergency, or crisis situations.- Oversaw the Resident Assistant Advisory Board, Habitat for Humanity Alternative Spring Break trip and assisted in designing curriculum to recruit and maintain Resident Assistants.

Tulsa, Ok

- Collaborated with colleagues at the Training Hub and Gilcrease/Disney Elementary to train and develop corps members in their teacher knowledge, skills and judgment.- Actively completed daily observations of beginning teachers, provided feedback aligned with the Tulsa National Institute’s goals, and progress monitored individual teacher effectiveness, classroom culture and student-teacher relationships.- Designed, differentiated and facilitated professional development for 10-20 Corps Members around a variety of teaching content, strategies and concepts.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

- Teach For America 2013 Tulsa Corps Member.- Designed and executed daily lessons in all subjects aligned to both the Common Core and Oklahoma PASS Standards for 32 second graders in both whole and small group settings.- Established a positive classroom culture guided by a set of effective classroom management techniques.- Effectively modified lessons to meet IEP goals and objectives and reach all learners.- Actively tracked data in both Reading and Math, and used it to drive instruction, communicate with stakeholders, and measure content mastery.- Participated in numerous professional development opportunities and faculty meetings.- Served as Second Grade Team Lead, and assisted in developing our first Guided Reading Book Room, after school tutoring services, and served as a New Teacher Mentor to two first year Corps Members.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

- Mentored incoming corps members at the Tulsa National Institute- Anderson Elementary School Site and supported numerous first year teachers at varying grade levels with general teaching strategies and instructional techniques.- Successfully collaborated with stakeholders throughout the school site, including other faculty advisers, district employees, site directors and Teach for America Corps Member Advisors regarding Corps Member and student growth in order to help further both classroom and overall school improvement.- Assisted in collecting new student data through DRA assessments and administering math summatives.

Bachelor'S Degree, Liberal Studies: Educational Studies

Master Of Education - Med, Elementary Education And Teaching, K-6