Laura Millard Ross Email & Phone Number

Lansing, Michigan Area

Lansing, Michigan Area

Okemos, Michigan

• Serve as instructional coach to help teachers add literacy skills to ninth grade social studies courses• Serve as technology coach to guide building technology goals and help train teachers with classroom applications (Google Schools, SMART Technology, Web-based learning applications)• Construct unit plans for courses such as Literature and Composition, Creative Writing, US History, Contemporary Literature, and Journalism• Incorporate cooperative learning techniques• Use standards and benchmarks determined by the State of Michigan to direct curriculum• Manage and create content for classroom websites• Manage staff of 25 student journalists in order to ensure publication of monthly newspaper• Oversee financial records for three student groups• Use appropriate accommodations in the classroom for mainstreamed special education students• Adviser for student newspaper, student literary magazine, feminism club and current events club• Elected member of Building Planning Team, 2012-2015• Member of AdvancEd accreditation team, Literature and Composition Committee, School/Home Communication Committee• Participated in various Professional Learning Communities

• Direct all activities of OTCA, a nonprofit organization working to revitalize Lansing’s Old Town• Provide technical training and assistance to local small business owners in order to enhance their understanding of historic preservation, niche marketing, and community outreach• Supervise daily office activities of the organization and work of OTCA employees to ensure that efficiency and productivity is achieved• Supervise student interns and volunteers in order to encourage and increase youth participation • Oversee communication with volunteers, businesses, and committee members• Promote, market and plan large-scale community events• Develop internal and external communication strategies for organization• Design, produce, and edit content for monthly newsletter with readership of over 20,000• Teach student interns and volunteers the internal workings of nonprofit office• Write news releases and communicate with the Media• Design promotional brochures, packets, posters, and flyers• Develop and coordinate community events• Update and create content for OTCA’s website• Work with business owners to implement promotional strategies• Facilitate OTCA PR-Marketing Committee and OTCA Design Committee

Ba, English, Cognates In History And Journalism

Ma, Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: Recipient of GTC Scholarship, Participant in College of Education Alumni Roundtable