Lauren Ficko, M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

- Combines skills of consulting and project management to, serving as Housing lead for the project management office (PMO)- Builds relationships and practices effective communication with clients, SMEs, and other stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of the needs for over 10 Housing projects.- Provides PMO support by overseeing the timeline and workflow, ensuring all parties including clients, project managers, copyeditors, designers, and stakeholders understand responsibilities to uphold and achieve desired outcomes.- Creates project plans, financial trackers, and tools for monitoring KPIs across projects utilizing a variety of software including Excel, Google Sheets and Smartsheet.- Designs and maintains visual presentations for county-wide presentations as well as reoccurring project meetings.- Prepares visuals for presentations using software including PowerPoint, Google slides and Canva while integrating knowledge of adult instructional design methods including ADDIE & Backwards Design.

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Greater Seattle Area

- Develop and deliver 800 hours of Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) using videos, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and learning management systems while tailoring professional learning sessions to align with customer and corporation goals.- Deliver high-quality professional learning that drives desired and measurable behavior change to groups by increasing attendance, participation, and engagement by at least 50%.- Provide professional learning on how to best teach multilingual learners and how to incorporate culturally responsive lessons into curriculum to 20+ learners- Effective communication of complex ideas to diverse audiences, including non-native English speakers, through asynchronous, synchronous, and for over 50 learners. - Cross functional differentiated training design that reflects best practices and the needs of both the organization and the clients.

Greater Seattle Area

- Perform 1:1 coaching with clients that require custom training tailored to their unique learning preferences. - Re-calibrate instructional approach based on customer needs. - Build genuine relationships with stakeholders to deliver a personalized experience.- Convey knowledge of factors impacting equity and accessibility for learners while training speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills, as well as, social emotional learning based on the latest research.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Construct, prepare, and deliver curriculum to fulfill state and national objectives in order to achieve organization’s goals in all subject areas.- Manage and develop learning objectives for 30+ learners. Instruct and guide them in analyzing and synthesizing evidence to form original interpretive arguments; 30% multilingual users.- A/B testing differentiated instruction to support a variety of student needs.- Collaborate closely with colleagues including co-development of curriculum including scope and sequences.- Utilized the technologies that support an engaging learning environment such as Nearpod, Newsela, Kahoot, Jamboard, polling sites, screencasting software, etc.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Lead team of trainers on the learning objectives, differentiated instruction, and best practices in order to ensure the individual needs of the learners are met.- Utilize data-driven decision making skills to identify opportunities for intervention, inform the instruction, and curriculum development, and to assess the knowledge of the learners.- Mentor and advise trainers on a weekly basis to maintain a successful client experience.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

- Manage and coordinate 30+ multilingual learners and 25+ undergraduate tutors to provide learners with data-driven instruction. - Train-the-trainer on best practices and research-based curriculum in order for learners to meet their individualized objectives.- Organize the tasks, location, and logistics of all 55+ participants of the program- Evaluate and provide critical feedback to tutors based on the data and monitoring of the learners being tutored.

Curriculum And Instruction, Language, Literacy And Culture, 4.0/4.0

Over the past year, I have been getting an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction specializing in Language, Literacy, and Culture. During.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Elementary Education - Theory Into Practice