James Ponce Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Sherman Oaks, Ca

• Draft complaint. • Draft interrogs, requests for admission, and requests for production of documents. • Respond to interrogatories, requests for admission, & production of documents.• Review, index, gather, & summarize documents produced by opposing & third parties. • Draft discovery motions. • Arrange for expert witnesses. • Coordinate projects. • Prepare & serve subpoena duces tecum. • Prepare summons & service of process. • Review & assemble documents to be used in deposition. • Arrange for extensions of time by telephone, letter, and/or motion. • Draft demand letters and subpoenas. • Prepare, organize, & mark trial exhibits. • Prepare exhibit list. • Prepare trial notebooks & witness files. • Prepare charts, graphs, & demonstrative exhibits for use at trial. • Attend trial, noting developments of case, witnesses, & opposing counsel during trial. • Maintain list of exhibits as mentioned, offered, admitted, or objected to. • Set up time for filings.

San Fernando Valley

• One of the top substitutes in highest demand by charter schools. • Prepared and drafted data-driven lessons to improve student learning.• Compiled data to individualize student teaching.• Kept detailed gradebook.

Crenshaw, Ca

• Incorporated blended learning techniques into every day curriculum.• Attended charter-wide training seminars to improve skills.• Teamed with history teacher to teach across disciplines and reinforce learning.• Prepared and drafted data-driven lessons to improve student learning.

San Fernando Valley

• Prepared CAHSEE preparation lessons which raised tenth grade CAHSEE test scores from a 53% pass rate to a 93% pass rate.• Analyzed test results to individualize student learning.• Evaluated research and writing assignments to improve math students’ writing abilities.• One of the top substitutes in highest demand by charter schools.

Canoga Park, Ca

• As UTLA chapter chair, represented staff members in disciplinary meetings with administration, enforced the UTLA/LAUSD Collective Bargaining Agreement, drafted agenda for and presided over school-site council meetings.• Drafted the School-Based Management Plan which governed our school, aligning it with our contract.• Researched, implemented, and instructed staff on the teaching of recursive writing to our students.• Conducted professional development of staff on cooperative learning, use of rubrics, and student-led conferencing.• Instructed 8th grade students in standards-based English curriculum.• Developed English units later adopted by the school.• Implemented a variety of assessment techniques and integration of parents into the learning process.• Coordinated instruction of new LAUSD teachers in classroom and time management.• In-serviced English Department on poetry portfolios and performance-based assessments.• Coordinated state standardized testing.• Developed school-wide “Family of Colors” peer mediation.

Bachelor'S Degree, English

Activities and Societies: • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship • Solid Gold Sound of the UCLA Marching Band

Master'S Degree, Educational Administration And Supervision

Master'S Degree, Education, Specialist In English

Paralegal Certificate, Legal Assistant/Paralegal, 4.0

• Maintained 4.0 GPA while taking 36 units in 2 semesters and working more than 40 hours a week. • Dean's List, Fall and Spring 2017

Education record