In addition to serving as ELA Department Leader, Lead Teacher, and Co-director of Professional Development Planning Committee, I:-Serve on the school's curriculum team reviewing and implementing curriculum guides.-Serve on the school leadership team coordinating with stakeholders to support raising student achievement for all students.-Conduct informal teacher walk-through observations with principal and other stakeholders to assess teacher practices.-Collaborate with Advanced Placement teachers to streamline the application and admissions process for AP Scholars and to design a program to support them throughout their enrollment in AP courses.-Analyze school and district instructional data in order to set instructional goals.-Serve on the school's hiring committee to recruit and select new personnel.-Serve on the School Improvement Committee.-Supervise school dances.-Support and develop grade team leaders. -Initiated a monthly "Model Teacher" newsletter to communicate effective practices to school community.-Advocate for school policies through an active role in Educators for Excellence.-Take part in professional development opportunities to enrich school wide programs -Attend district wide student recruitment events.-Hold the position of point person for several school wide initiatives such as READ Alliance, pilot program of ThinkCERCA, and NewsELA liaison.-Study "Growth Mindset" in my AP classroom as an Affinity Fellow.

Co-Plan and participate in weekly meetings to determine the direction of professional development for our school staff based on the school's instructional focus, teachers' needs, and new city and state mandates. Responsible to also lead professional development sessions, assess the effectiveness, and plan according to the collected data.

Throughout my nine years, I have taught 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA and Humanities. I have taught AP Language for three years and currently teach 8th grade ELA in a double block period and 11th grade AP Language and Composition. I have also taught SAT prep classes. I am an 11th grade advisor and have been a 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, and 12th grade advisor throughout my years of teaching.

Coaching teachers through improving instructional practice, sharing and modeling effective practices for student improvement, analysis of data, lead inquiry work.Mentoring new teachers through one on one coaching sessions, observations, learning walks, and curriculum support.

-Analyze school wide ELA data including regents scores and NYS assessment data and create a plan for yearly improvement. -Support middle school teachers in using the workshop model for reading and writing instruction. -Support high school teachers with curriculum and instruction to meet college readiness goals.-Lead inquiry teams in both high school and middle school in accordance with school's instructional focus.-Weekly meetings with other department leaders (STEM, Social Studies) to discuss, plan and assess the direction of our collective inquiry work.

Coordinate NYS ELA and Math testing in accordance with state and city mandates including programming student and teacher schedules, secure distribution, collection, and packaging of exams.Assist in coordination of NYS Regents exams in accordance with state and city mandates including secure distribution, collection, and packaging of exams and creating school wide protocols for consistent proctoring practices.Coordinate the administration and scoring of MoSL exams school wide(grades 6-12).

Weekly cycles of evaluations, coaching, and re-evaluations of teacher practice to move teaching fellows along the continuum of qualities of effective teacher practices. The end goal is to get novice teachers ready for their first classroom experience in September through a summer intensive program in high needs schools.

SAT Prep English Tutor, Grades K - 8 - ELA and Math tutor

Teacher for grades 6, 7,8 ELA and Publications Workshop for grade 12