Kaitlyn Solar Email & Phone Number

In addition to classroom teaching, I have leadership experience as a teacher learning network facilitator for all 5th grade teachers in the district. I also have experience creating and updating curriculum for English Language Arts and Social Studies as a curriculum instruction specialist.

Provided small group intervention for math and reading grades K-4.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Ann Arbor, Mi

Greater Detroit Area

Ann Arbor, Mi

Elementary Education Master's and Certification

Ann Arbor, Mi

Novi, Mi

East Lansing, Mi

• Responsible for the recruitment of study participants including providing study description to families, eligibility questions, scheduling of assessments and interviews, and assessment kit information. • Additional responsibilities included: scheduling study participants, creating the assessment schedule for the research assistants, handling cash advances and participant compensations, medication research, response rates, study totals, postcard entry, tracking information of participants e.g. medications, menstrual cycles, race and ethnicity, age, location, pubertal development and zygosity. • Was available at all times to research assistants and graduate students to answer any questions or problem solve any issues in relation to assessments and families. • Trained new research assistants.

East Lansing

• Observed preschool children, while coding their peer interactions. • Assisted with participant assessments and child emotions tasks. • Data collection: coded type and frequency of emotions of children during videos of child emotion tasks.

East Lansing

• Assisted graduate students and Postdoctoral Student with their separate studies on eating behaviors and hormones using animal research methods. • Responsibilities included running feeding tests, recording data, changing cages, and assistance with feeding tests during perfusions.

• Worked with study participants ages 8-15 yrs and their families. Responsible for making them feel comfortable and motivated during data collection. • Developing research skills through the collection of data and participation in discussion during lab meetings.• Responsibilities divided between rotating committees. Performing tasks such as data collection from study participants and subsequent data organization and analysis.

East Lansing

• Worked with study participants ages 10-13 at six middle schools across Michigan. • Assisted with Data collection including: Pubertal Development Scale, movement monitors (ActiGraph), timed sprints (PACER), Eating habits and exercise survey, and height, weight and percent body fat. • Data entry

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Worked with youth ages 8-17 and their families to promote the development of life skills in a safe and encouraging setting.• Responsibilities included acquiring funding through grants, grant reports, organizing field trips, and lesson planning.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Elementary Education And Teaching, 3.9

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Psychology club• Related courses: Lifespan Development, Child Growth and Development, Parenting, Abnormal.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Psychology

• Related courses: Lifespan Development, Child Growth and Development, Parenting, Abnormal Psychology, Health Psychology, Cognitive.