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United States

United States

• Create and lead customized supports based on school and community needs.
• Facilitated a team of educators integrating literacy instruction, global studies, and service-learning at the Denver Center for International Studies at Fairmont.
• Mentor school leaders and train educators in competency-based learning at Children’s Future International, an education nonprofit serving vulnerable families in Cambodia.
• Presented youth development practices to organizational leaders at the 2022… Show more
• Presented youth development practices to organizational leaders at the 2022 Civil Air Patrol National Conference. Supported learning experience planning and speaker preparation for Civil Air Patrol’s 2022 Youth.

United States

• Developed and delivered high-quality service-learning educational content for K-12, higher education, and out of school time audiences.
• Created an implementation and improvement strategy for use of NYLC equity in service-learning professional development resources.
• Supported strategy development for national efforts with State Afterschool Networks and civic education coalitions.
• Made connections between current efforts, identified and ideated potential new connections, and… Show more
• Made connections between current efforts, identified and ideated potential new connections, and elevated resources that serve the diverse needs of clients and stakeholders. Show less

Colorado

• Built capacity of leaders and teachers in Denver metro area K-12 schools to implement independent reading practices. Design and facilitate training opportunities focusing on reading development, conferencing with.
• Led human-centered design of a multi-year professional development curriculum.

Greater Denver Area

• Supported over 20 district-run and charter high schools to implement student-created Capstone Portfolios and competency based learning practices.
• Built relationships and worked closely with network-based and school-based leader and teacher teams to ensure a high level of buy-in and ownership of curriculum, competencies, and assessment implementation.
• Collaborated with district curriculum and assessment partners to improve processes and resources based on educators’ feedback.

Greater Denver Area

• Supported over 200 principals in School Retool, a professional development fellowship that helps school leaders redesign school culture using small, scrappy experiments called “hacks.”
• Coordinated data tracking, supplies, and workshop preparations.

Greater Denver Area

• Designed and facilitated professional development trainings for Colorado educators including design thinking sessions and Stanford University’s School Retool program.
• Co-created and led CEI’s Personalized Learning Project. Engaged public schools from four Colorado districts in developing the mindsets and skills necessary to begin implementing personalized learning environments.
• Managed Next Generation Learning projects: coordinated teams, planned events, organized logistics… Show more
• Managed Next Generation Learning projects: coordinated teams, planned events, organized logistics, monitored budgets, and built relationships with partners and educators. Show less

Johnson Elementary School

Instructed Enrichment and STEM classes for 1st through 5th grades as part of Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) and afterschool programs.

Battambang, Cambodia

• Recruited, trained, coordinated, and supervised a team of 12 Cambodian teachers and librarians to provide supplemental education programs to over 200 vulnerable children.
• Counseled and encouraged students regarding academic and behavioral difficulties. Worked closely with social workers to identify and implement methods of support.
• Designed and instructed trainings in classroom management, responding to student behaviors, lesson planning, curriculum design, organization policies… Show more
• Designed and instructed trainings in classroom management, responding to student behaviors, lesson planning, curriculum design, organization policies, and assessment production.
• Created and improved education programs; shifted from age-based groups to a competency-based model utilizing personal learning plans.
• Collaborated with teachers and social workers to create academic progress monitoring and evaluation systems. Show less

Kampot, Cambodia

• Created the Learning Center’s first EFL curriculum: co-taught and modified the first phase of the curriculum with the Learning Center Manager.
• Trained local teachers in curriculum development, EFL learning methods, and student assessment.
• Mentored the director and staff concerning leadership, management skills, policy making, resource utilization, organization re-structuring, and cooperation with other organizations.
• Collaborated with the director to formalize the Volunteering… Show more
• Collaborated with the director to formalize the Volunteering Program: implemented ChildSafe policies, an application process, and volunteer orientations. Show less

Republic Of Korea (Gimpo And Seoul)

• Designed, created, and implemented an original “fun” English curriculum for 3rd through 6th graders with diverse skill levels.
• Taught adult EFL classes ranging from one-on-one “Encounter” classes to fifty-member “Social Clubs.”
• Taught critical thinking and current events to a class of “returnee” students: 5th and 6th graders who had recently returned to Korea from living abroad.
• Taught EFL to elementary school students in subjects including Composition, Grammar, and… Show more
• Taught EFL to elementary school students in subjects including Composition, Grammar, and Conversation.
• Tutored and mentored a group of multi-ethnic children from migrant worker families. Show less

Numerous Locations

• Supervised, motivated, directed, and coordinated a team of ten young adults.
• Coordinated logistics, transportation, finances, and scheduling with project sponsors and staff.
• Rehabilitated lands in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to re-establish endangered species.
• Tutored and mentored at a rural elementary school in Nevada.
• Coordinated seven sites of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program in Arizona.
• Supervised 260 American Red Cross agents at a Hurricane… Show more

Pittsbrugh, Pennsylvania

• Managed a team of fourteen tutors to provide inner-city students with after-school tutoring and academic enhancement activities.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Educational Equity And Leadership, 4.0

Completed a self-designed master’s degree focusing on social justice in education, non-profit management, and the intersections of.

Certificate In Service-Learning Instructional Leadership

Studied integration of service-learning with academic instruction and curriculum design.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Natural Sciences

Activities and Societies: American Society of Civil Engineers (Student Chapter)