Jessica Folsom Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, United States

Liberty High School, North Liberty, IA

• Provide instructional coaching, consultation, and collaboration to all special education teachers atLiberty High School and the district Online Learning Program, provide a second layer of support to allgeneral.
• Provide special education case management for a combined Strat I and Strat II roster of students with arange of disabilities. Teach a variety of special education and general education courses includingfundamental core.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• My primary role was to support the Iowa Reading Research Center by managing data and conducting classroom observations and a secondary role was to support the professional development initiatives. Most were.
• Develop and implement coding systems and surveys to evaluate classroom practices and fidelity of instruction including supervision of a team of coders
• Design and maintain databases of incoming student and teacher data
• Develop and provided professional development on effective literacy instruction for K-5 teachers including Iowa's High-Priority Milestones for K-3 Reading Development
• Conduct curriculum reviews to advise districts on purchasing options
• Produce final reports for stakeholders and peer-reviewed publications

Tallahassee, FL

• My primary role was to be a methodologist for the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, the Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center, and the Reading for Understanding grants. Most of the studies were.
• Conducted needs sensing with state and district personnel to develop research studies around their high priority educational needs
• Write proposals to secure funding and produce timely reports to maintain funding
• Project management to ensure timelines were met within the allocated budget
• Provide capacity building professional development to state-level administrators on conducted structured interviews and classroom observations to collect data for informed decision making
• Develop an IRT based teacher knowledge measure of early literacy instruction

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• My primary role was to support the lead investigators on their studies in an increasing capacity during my doctoral training. All studies were RCTs or QEDs. Key projects include: Research staff: Florida Learning.
• Assist in developing intervention materials such as teachers guides and student consumables and providing professional development to teachers participating in the research
• Project management to ensure timelines were met within the allocated budget including supervising and training research staff including 20+ data collectors each semester
• Direct intervention to struggling readers in early elementary school and administering a variety of psychoeducational assessments to students
• Data entry, management, and analysis including code classroom observations and conducting literature reviews
• Producing final reports for peer-reviewed publications

Tallahassee, Florida

• I taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses on an as needed basis. Depending on the course and semester, I was either a teaching assistant (Positive Behavioral Supports [Online course], Direct.
• Text book selection, content development, and lecture and assignment preparation
• Maintaining online content to support learning
• Grading tests and assignments
• Direct supervision of classroom teaching

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Gretchen Everhart School: I was the lead teacher in the post-secondary program for students with a variety of intellectual, emotional, and/or behavioral disabilities. I taught academic, life, social, and vocational skills. I taught in both the before and after school program. I taught students in elementary through post-secondary through a computer skills.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

I was a research and teaching assistant to the special education program in a variety of capacities including assistant to the program coordinator of the Childhood Education, Reading and Disability Services, assistant developer of the first online Autism course at FSU, data collector for a doctoral student, and teaching assistant for two courses.

Ph.D., Special Education

Graduate Certificate, Educational Measurement And Statistics

M.S., Special Education

B.S., Special Education