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New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Instructional Leadership:Lead the team to set clear expectations and standards for academic success.Exhibit growth-mindset leadership and ensure consistent implementation of school-wide culture and academic goals.Promote high expectations and a caring attitude to foster students' social, emotional, and academic development.Classroom Engagement:Regularly observe classrooms, engaging with teachers and students.Foster a positive, engaging learning environment with high expectations for students.Conduct weekly observations and coaching to ensure rigorous, high-impact lessons that accelerate student growth and address individual needs.Professional Development:Co-design and lead summer professional development for teachers.Plan and facilitate year-long professional development to enhance teacher growth and ensure best practices.Develop and monitor coaching and improvement plans for teachers, providing feedback.Celebrate instructional growth while supporting ongoing teacher development.Collaboration and Support:Collaborate with staff to share best practices and cultivate a results-driven academic culture.Lead Department Chairs to promote continuous improvement and professional learning.Assist teachers with resources and collaborate to facilitate student interventions.Data and Assessment:Collect and share data on school-wide trends.Analyze instructional data to inform decisions and meet student needs.Create interim assessments across departments.Staff Recruitment and Onboarding:Assist in recruiting and onboarding effective teachers and staff.Community Involvement:Participate actively in the school community serving as the 11th grade level AP. Support with student recruitment efforts.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Provide curricular oversight of the humanities department.Support teachers and maintain a consistent “pulse” on teacher performance across the humanities departmentsCollaborate with principal to guide staff-wide professional development and faculty supports.Directly lead and manage the ELA department Provide direct coaching and support to humanities department leaders to highlight long-term literacy growth goals for students, as well as short-term instructional adjustments in the classroom.Guide the humanities departments to establish a vertical alignment and interdisciplinary vision for skills and competency goals for students over the four-year course sequence.Design and maintain a sustainable means of assessing student reading levels and an effective means of boosting reading levels and literacy skills for students in all grade levels.Lead professional development and support teachers through Common Core ELA shifts by leveraging department meeting time and individual check-ins with teachers and department leaders.Build relationships with all students.Collaborate with principal to set up teacher supports and building staff morale.Take a lead on or play a major supporting role in all school-wide administrative initiatives.Utilize teacher and student performance data to support academically at- risk students.Coordinate positive and productive partnerships between co-teachers and guide teachers with effective planning time.Create a positive academic culture within the school.Conduct and coordinate all diagnostic, interim benchmarks, mock Regents, and Regents testing.Analyze all testing data to guide humanities teachers with instructional decisions and adjustments.Communicate regularly with parents about both positive and negative interactions with students.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Collaborate with the Principal and the Director of Curriculum & Instruction to plan and implement appropriate summer and academic year professional development for all teachers Attend key training sessions Develop and facilitate professional developments Follow-up with teachers about professional norms—punctuality, dress code, deadlinesSupervise, observe, and evaluate a portfolio of 3 teachers as designated by the PrincipalHold teachers accountable for integration of elements of rigor and questioning directly into execution of core subject areasObserve teachers weekly and provide focused, actionable feedback to each teacher Plan and maintain weekly meetingsLead teachers through a full observation-feedback cycle, analysis, and planning meeting each week Lead Interim Assessment & analysis meetings for teachers on coaching portfolio and grade-level team Meet regularly with the Leadership Council to evaluate progress against relative and absolute goals as well as brainstorm next steps for addressing gaps in instruction and cultureWalk through all grade level classrooms with the Principal or DCI to identify grade-wide trends

Brooklyn, Ny

InstructionImplement curricula and activities to meet academic standards.Design and implement assessments that measure progress towards academic standards.Use assessment data to refine curriculum and inform instructional practices.Empower students to be their fullest selves by teaching an inclusive, culturally responsive curriculum that seeks equitable outcomes for all students.Guide students to analyze literary and non-narrative texts, assess an author's purpose, write in a variety of genres, and grapple with meaningful questions in student-led discourse.Create an inclusive and safe environment, allying with students to speak and write in their authentic voice.Guide students to choose books of interest independently, as they develop their own passions and interests as readers.Data AnalysisMeet weekly with principal and/or instructional coach to analyze and respond to trends in student work samples and assessments.Learn and implement strategies to differentiate instruction for all learners in the classroom.School CultureBuild positive relationships with students to ensure they feel seen, loved, and heard.Partner with students’ families to ensure appropriate resources are available to support their child's learning needs.Engage in practice-based professional development, mentorship, and coaching sessions.Participate in weekly, school-wide meetings to cultivate community, model core values, and encourage student achievement.Partner with grade level team to develop academic goals and practice instructional strategies.

Hunter College

Assist in the collection and preparation of data and reports.Develop and maintain a filing system.Order books and supplies.Maintain contact lists.Liaise with Community School District faculty and staff as needed.Create/maintain READ East Harlem’s social media presence.Help develop collaborative forums.

Harlem, Ny

Serve as director of the Writing & Curriculum Corps Department, a 19-person staff with part-time and full-time members. Create and facilitate yearly objectives.Manage a substantial budget for the department.Organize and facilitate scheduled departmental objectives.Create and implement site-specific objectives, rubrics, and contracts.Create and facilitate curriculum.Oversee the creation and implementation of literacy curricula for sites served throughout the agency.Plan and facilitate small and large scale professional developments. Create and lead agency trainings. Managing the schedules, responsibilities and lists of tasks for full-time coordinators and part-time specialists.Collaborate with senior leadership staff at the Harlem Children’s Zone agency for small and large initiatives. Collaborate with external organizations for the enhancement of educational opportunities for program participants.

Harlem, Ny

Serve as first supervising officer to a staff of three part-time writing specialists, managing their schedules, responsibilities and lists of tasks. Collaborate with senior leadership staff at my respective Harlem Children’s Zone site toward implementing all official Writing Curriculum Corps literacy programs as well as producing and ensuring quality ELA/writing curricular support that are aligned with company and agency mission and pedagogy.Create and facilitate curriculum and student assessments. Create and facilitate professional development and academic case management trainings for site staff.Oversee the creation and implementation of art-specific unit curricula with close attention to literacy skills. Collaboratively create and facilitate literacy intensive summer workshops such as, but not limited to: • Senior EOS, a two-week personal statement writing workshop (High School).• Race and Relationships, a two-month writing and theory intensive workshop (High School).• Literacy and the Media, a two month literacy intensive workshop that explored Media and its influence (Middle School).• Secret Society of Writers and Readers, a literacy course targeting students two grades or more below grade reading and writing levels (High School).Manage academic study hall and provide 1-on-1 ELA instruction.Serve as co-chair to the sub-committee Special Projects and Administration, responsible for: • Administrative tasks, such as organization of the company Google drive accounts, and/or physical student files and assessments. • Plan and organize assessments and special projects, such as collection of student work for agency-wide publication and hosting cross-site culminating student showcases and other events such as, but not limited to: speaker series, reading series, agency-wide talent show, middle school spelling bee, etc.

Harlem, Ny

Collaborated with assigned coordinator and site-specific teaching artists toward creating and co-facilitating arts curriculum infusing literacy through writing and critical thinking. Created curriculum for and facilitated independent writing-centered workshops (in accordance with Common Core Standards).Create detailed observations shared with supervising staff to chart the progress of an individual unit and/or individual student in a tutoring session.Worked 1-on-1 with students, providing immediate ELA support via tutoring, homework help, copyediting and other literacy-related services.

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