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*Led monthly professional development opportunities to a 72-210 person staff.*Provided Trust-Based Relational Intervention lessons to faculty and parents. -Student discipline referrals decreased by 37% *Designed Professional Learning Communities (PLC) lessons for faculty. -Assessment and accountability procedures increased by 50%*Created & implemented new teacher mentoring program -Designed monthly newsletters and check-ins with new employees. -Designed & presented professional development topics quarterly. -New teacher retention and recruitment increased due to mentorship program*Designed and administered 144 teacher evaluations per year -Held post-conference meetings for development with individuals. -Wrote improvement plans for struggling employees. -Designed leadership opportunities for accelerated employees.

*Served as department chair for the Social Studies department -Led collaborative meetings for a 20 person department. -Mediated departmental and personnel conflicts. *Led professional development opportunities to a faculty of 125. -Researched and modeled neuroscience thinking strategies on effective teaching. -Researched and modeled new technology programs to use in the classroom*Evaluated and mentored employees on the evaluation system -All 30 employees increased scores from previous evaluations. -Ratings are scored 1-5 on 14 different evaluation domains. -All teachers increased the 14 domains by at least one point. *Created a performance based incentive system for the school -Trained and mentored teachers/administrators in a Vanderbilt developed program. -Created a data evaluation system to track progress of program -Detentions decreased from 25% to 5% over two year implementation -Failures decreased from 15% to 10% over two year implementation