Kasi Sweeney Email & Phone Number

New Jersey, United States

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

• Current teaching schedule: Honors English 3 (2nd year), English 3 (16th year), Drama/Advanced Drama (16th year)• Consistently offered a sixth period teaching assignment to ensure high quality education of the students• Enthusiastic teacher mentor for new English teachers, sharing materials and helping them navigate• Incorporates NJ State English and Theatre standards into all lessons and units• Closely adheres to District provided curriculum• Teaches English to classes of 28+ students (including special education inclusion classes) -Successfully co-teaches with inclusion partner to ensure students IEPs and 504s accommodations are met -Collaborated with 6 different inclusion partners, 3 of whom were first year teachers -Utilizes dramatic conventions in the English classroom for more in-depth textual comprehension and access to multiple intelligences -Focuses on critical thinking, analysis, and creative writing skills in the English classroom through unique and engaging assignments -Measures comprehension and formal writing skills in each unit, utilizing both formative and summative assessments• Teaches Drama/Advanced Drama to classes of 30+ students, comprised of students from all levels (Cog Mild students to Medical Science Program students) -Differentiates core classwork to meet the variety of student needs in the classroom -Closely works with paraprofessionals to ensure special needs students are seamlessly integrated into the general education population and successful in the classroom -Encourages students with little to no prior interaction with theater to become theater goers -Ensures a diverse representation of artists, writers, directors, and designers within coursework -Focuses on individual student growth within the classroom, assessing students independently on their effort in attaining new skills and knowledge -Measures comprehension of skills and acquired knowledge in a variety of innovative ways

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

• Plans enriching season for both student and community enjoyment, including exposure to multiple styles and genres of theater• Meets with administration regularly regarding progress and needs of the program• Acts as producer for the show: ensuring a realistic budget and community friendly ticket prices, raising funds to cover costs for this self-funded entity, creating a marketing/advertising strategy for the performances, overseeing production timelines for all team members, meeting regularly with the team to ensure success of the performance• Acts as director for the show: creating a rehearsal schedule, creating an artistic concept, conducting auditions and casting, teaching acting skills via the rehearsal process, operating as a sounding board for the technical director, music director, choreographer, and costumer. • Acts as marketing director for the show: coordinates press releases, organizes cast photos, compiles playbill, creates posters and other marketing materials• Acts as fundraiser for the show: identifying successful fundraising opportunities to meet budget goals, encouraging the cast and crews to participate in all fundraising efforts, • Acts as International Thespian Society Advisor: maintains the points system, organizes additional points opportunities, coordinates volunteer and philanthropic activities• Acts as volunteer coordinator during the show: organizes parent volunteers to meet program needs throughout the rehearsal and show process

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Designed standards-aligned formative assessments for each unit in the junior curriculum -Worked closely with 2 other junior level teachers, each representing a different school in the district -Created standards-aligned multiple choice questions for each unit similar to questions from our Through Course Assessments, SATs, ACTs, etc -Edited/improved standards-aligned multiple choice questions created by colleagues and administrators to ensure clarity

Rumson, New Jersey, United States

• Plans enriching season for both student and community enjoyment, including exposure to multiple styles and genres of theater• Meets with administration regularly regarding progress and needs of the program• Acts as producer for the show: ensuring a realistic budget and community friendly ticket prices, creating a marketing/advertising strategy for the performances, overseeing production timelines for all team members, meeting regularly with the team to ensure success of the performance• Acts as director for the show: creating a rehearsal schedule, creating an artistic concept, conducting auditions and casting, teaching acting skills via the rehearsal process, operating as a sounding board for the technical director, music director, choreographer, and costumer. • Acts as International Thespian Society Advisor: maintains the points system, organizes additional points opportunities, coordinates volunteer and philanthropic activities

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Improved the standard-based curriculum rewrite for junior year -Worked closely with 5 other junior level teachers who are actively working with the new curriculum, each representing a different school in the district -Evaluated the successes, struggles, and failures of each unit by reviewing teacher provided feedback -Improved unit flow and goals to address each struggle and failure experienced by teachers -Improved formal and informal assessments that gauge learning throughout each unit -Improved final assessments for each unit that demonstrated overall student mastery of standards-based skills

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Created a standards-based assessment of knowledge for each of the first three marking periods -Chose relevant and meaningful passages based on curriculum goals, ensuring a diverse representation of artists and writers -Created question and answer choices that were standards-aligned, ensuring the questions and answers were not “google-able” -Modified tests to increase difficulty for higher level classes (AP, Honors) -Modified tests to adhere to IEP and 504 accommodations

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Created a standard-based curriculum for junior year -Worked closely with 3 other teachers, all of whom were actively working on the curriculum rewrite -Developed example worksheets and other materials for teachers to utilize when navigating the curriculum

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Created a standard-based curriculum for junior year -Worked closely with 5 other teachers, each representing a different school in the district -Grouped standards into five units, ensuring a logical flow and scaffolding of skills -Chose relevant and meaningful novels, short stories, plays and poems for each unit, ensuring a diverse representation of artists and writers from all genres, focusing on both classic and contemporary works -Developed a standards-aligned framework to navigate each unit -Created formal and informal assessments to gauge learning throughout each unit -Developed final assessments for each unit that demonstrated overall student mastery of standards-based skills

Rumson, New Jersey, United States

• Acted as assistant director for the show: maintained the rehearsal schedule, adhered to an artistic concept, aided auditions and casting, taught acting skills via the rehearsal process, operated as a sounding board for the team as a representative of the director.• Acted as marketing director for the show: coordinated press releases, organized cast photos, compiled playbill, created posters and other marketing materials• Acted as philanthropic coordinator for the show: identified successful philanthropy opportunities to meet student goals, encouraged the cast and crews to participate in all philanthropic efforts, • Acted as International Thespian Society Advisor: maintained the points system, organized additional points opportunities, coordinated volunteer activities

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

• Created a standards-based assessment of knowledge for each of the midterm exam -Chose relevant and meaningful passages, and created question and answer choices -Modified tests to increase difficulty for higher level classes (AP, Honors) -Modified tests to adhere to IEP and 504 accommodations

Freehold, New Jersey, United States

•Created a standard-based curriculum for junior year -Worked closely with 5 other teachers, each representing a different school in the district -Created four units ensuring a logical flow, and created a framework to navigate each unit -Chose relevant and meaningful novels, plays and poems for each unit, focusing on British Literature