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 members on 7 regional teams across the country who collectively manage and develop 789 teachers who are responsible for 66,126 children in low income schools. I create, implement, and evaluate strategies to assess and enhance student outcomes, staff performance, executive leadership, and programmatic culture.Engagements include:• System-wide program creation, management, and assessment• Executive coaching for team leaders• Team manager training and development• Change management• Culture turnaround• Racial identity development, inclusivity training, critical consciousness development on/for diverse teams• Mentoring white staff members on awareness of privilege and racial identity development• Mentoring staff of color on navigating dominant white culture through their authentic leadership• Instructional pilot creation, supervision, and effectiveness evaluation• Vision and goal setting• Strategic planning• Large team skill development in: --strategic planning; --cultural leadership; --transformational coaching & coach-training; --adaptive leadership; --awareness of power & privilege; --organizational abilities; --effective communication;--relationship-management and collaboration across lines of difference;--classroom and student outcome evaluation.

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 Project; Tulsa Public Schools; 10 TPS DOE principals and school sites; University of Tulsa.• Curriculum design for both students (aligned to district, state, and common core standards) AND new teacher development.• Operational planning, supervision, and risk management for: DOE school sites (2000-6500 students); university housing (1000+ participants).• Press/media management and engagement.• Public speaking and large-group-learning (100+) facilitation.• Large-scale conference and event planning, execution, and supervision.• Diversity, inclusivity, and culture: vision-setting, training, and execution management.Data:FY10 – 115 staff; 542 teachers; 2500 students; 12 DOE summer school sites; $2.3 million dollar budget. FY11 -- 153 staff; 594 teachers; 2500 students; 12 DOE summer school sites; $2.5 million dollar budget.FY12 – 145 staff; 639 teachers; 5300 students; 10 DOE school sites; $2.2 million dollar budget. Grew summer school program from 800 students to enrollment of 5300 hundred students in the first year. My full-time team exceeded 75th percentile of organization-wide OSM results. FY13 – 125 staff; 640 teachers; 6500 students; 11 DOE school sites; $2.1 million dollar budget

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; • Collaborate and liaison with district partners and New York City principals to ensure strong academic success of students during Institute program and strong overall performance of Institute staff.• Develop, write, and present training curricula to 120+ staff and to external partners.Results:Fiscal Year 1:• Increased total applications for roles by 40%• Increased total people of color on staff by 45% from previous year• Increased total returners on staff by 48%Fiscal Year 2:• Increased total applicantions by 30%• Increased applicants of color by 35% from previous year and grew diversity of selected staff by 8% over previous year• Conducted largest number of recruitment meetings of all national institute teams• Grew amount of returners of selected staff by 13% over previous year.

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.