Lauren Scheller Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Novato, Ca, Us

Partner with district or school leadership to co-develop and execute vision, goals and road map for the systemic implementation of PBL. This includes assessing district readiness, managing 2-3 year strategic roadmap and tactical plans, developing and facilitating virtual and on-site support for district leaders and principals, overseeing budget and contracting process, and creating and customizing tools and resources. Manage consultant teams. Train principals in the areas of vision, culture, capacity building and continuous improvement. Facilitate workshops at national conferences.➢ Led eight school and district reform initiatives, equipping leaders to drive systemic change through school and district culture and structures.➢ Created PBL toolkit for school leaders, communications handbook to assist in improving engagement and buy-in among school community stakeholders, and instructional coaching course to help schools design plans for continuous instructional improvement.

Novato, Ca, Us

Served as operations manager for Professional Development. Managed all current and potential clients and partners by developing relationships and assessing needs in order to create personalized professional development support plans. Coordinated annual international conference, PBL World. Managed a team of 50 consultants. Critical member of decision-making team for all curriculum development. Facilitated workshops at national conferences. Messaged to the public about PBL and BIE’s suite of services.➢ Developed process and tools for school leaders to support teachers post-workshop, driving higher rates of implementation.➢ Increased profitability and enhanced budget projections by designing and implementing client relations management system.➢ Applied feedback data to develop peer learning structures for faculty summits, enabling organization to better leverage faculty strengths and increasing both morale and quality of professional development workshops.➢ Digitized workshop survey data to facilitate analysis of learner data and improve teacher development.➢ Developed PBL English Learner materials to meet needs of underserved student population.

Instructed all levels of French I-IV. Designed and implemented backwards designed, standards-based unit plans. Assessed, recorded and reported on student achievement. Served on Principal Advisory committee. Revised course curriculum. ➢ Led department in instating PBL approach to teaching languages, resulting in greater community engagement and asset-based student focus.➢ Introduced and trained staff on Google Voice as tool for assessing student oral proficiency, with resource being adopted department-wide.➢ Designed series of staff technology workshops that resulted in increased leadership and teacher understanding of meaningful technology integration and implementation.➢ Revamped course curriculum to include differentiated performance-based assessments, leading to increased student language proficiency for 100+ students annually.➢ Implemented student portfolios aligned to performance rubrics, enabling students to develop metacognitive learning strategies and thus increase language proficiency.➢ Inspired department to maintain class blogs as tool to personalize student learning and drive student engagement.

Taught college-prep Biology, electives Oceanography and Meteorology. Maintained online teachers’ portal for student-teacher communication.➢ Designed curriculum for two new courses, Oceanography and Meteorology, through project-based approach.

Taught 8th grade Physical Science inclusion classes. Realigned departmental curriculum and instructional supports to state-level standards and graduation requirements. Maintained online teachers’ portal for student-teacher communication.➢ Renovated traditional departmental curriculum approach to facilitating model of inquiry and infusing constructivist theories in order to evaluate student conceptual understanding and improve learning and assessment.➢ Created and facilitated after-school enrichment program that led to increased student achievement on state science exams among 50+ students.➢ Designed project-based units that integrated cross-curricular standards and increased student motivation.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Curriculum And Instruction

Continuing Education, Teaching French As A Second Or Foreign Language

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General And French

Junior Year Immersion