Laura Brewer Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, VA, US

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

How we human sucks. I help people human better. In their lives. In their leadership And in their deaths.Let's re-humanize together.www.humanbravely.com

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Internal executive coach/consultant responsible for helping executive leaders and their teams formulate and execute system-wide visions and goals. Most recently responsible for the development of 71 diverse staff.
• System-wide program creation, management, and assessment
• Executive coaching for team leaders
• Team manager training and development
• Change management
• Culture turnaround

New York City, NY; Tulsa, OK

• Management of racially and economically diverse full-time team and 110-160 part-time staff;
• Supervision of recruitment and selection of 110-145 racially and economically diverse staff members with over 1000 total applications;
• Negotiation and management of $2,000,000+ budget, contracts, grants;
• Instructional, operational, and program design and execution of public summer school program with over 6,000 students;
• Development and training of 500-650 new teachers per year, grades Pre-K-12;
• Cross-racial, cross-geographical, and cross-generational relationship management and collaboration w/: NYC Department of Education; 12 NYC DOE principals and school sites; Saint John's University; Community Action.

Greater New York City Area

• Primary responsibilities:
• Manage recruitment process to cultivate 120+ exceptional staff members
• Grow racial diversity of staff;
• Coordinate and manage retention of staff and grow percentage of returning staff;
• Manage all student achievement, teacher growth, staff performance, and culture goals to completion;
• Management of 8-12 senior staff members, who cumulatively managed more than 50 additional staff members;

Greater Philadelphia Area

Facilitator of new teacher development, primarily in literacy pedagogy, for groups of 40-120 teachers at a time. Designed and facilitated content.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Educator of 483 7th-9th grade students; ELA and Literacy instruction.
• English Department Chair Person (2005-2006)
• Coach, Ski Team (2005-2006)
• Nominated for Sue Lehmann Award for excellence in teaching (2006)
• Secondary English Learning Team Leader, Teach For America (2005-2007)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Freelance consultant, with clients in charter schools, non-profits, and for-profit educational organizations. Projects included curriculum development, professional development experiences for teachers, and one-on-one literacy coaching for literacy instructors.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• EDU 540 -- Secondary Methods and MaterialsGraduate School of Education, Teaching and HealthStudent responses from end-of-course evaluation (means on 7-pt likert scale):
• “Instructor required high levels of performance.” – 6.71/7
• “Satisfied with what I learned in this course.” 6.08/7
• “I gained a good understanding of concepts and principals in this field.” 6.21/7

Certified Professional Coach (Cpc), Coaching & Leadership Development

Leadership That Works: Coaching For Transformation ICF-Accredited Coach Training Program

The Consultant'S Toolkit Non-Graded Learning Program, Consulting

Content covered: The role of consultants and the consulting process; Strategic frameworks; Balanced scorecard; Operational diagnostic tools.

Mat, Secondary Education, 4.0

Ba With Honors, Double Major: Government & English Literature

Activities and Societies: Virginia Women's Chorus; Peer Mediation; Grounds for Discussion; Lawn Resident; APPW Poetry Fellow; Madison.