Lori Gaido Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, PA

• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs, backgrounds and interests in accordance with state education standards.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question and investigate.
• Collaborate closely with STEAM cohort of teachers, student support specialists, parents, and administrators to achieve student-learning objectives.
• Maintain accurate and complete students records per district regulations to provide regular student feedback.
• Employ assessment tools and proactive strategies to improve instruction methods.
• Attended a variety of professional development workshops centered on learning goals, classroom management, student motivation, and engaging learning activities.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Review federal, state or foundation grants and provide detailed recommendations for improving a proposal and ensuring each criterion is fully addressed.
• Prepare and compile all components of grant submission, and ensure that the proposal’s formatting is in accordance with the granting agency requirements.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Provided day-to-day oversight and accountability for SCA’s youth workforce development programs in the Midwest region with program offices located in Detroit, Milwaukee, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
• Developed program partnerships and funding streams to create programming within the region in coordination with the National Director and local program staff.
• Worked with Operations Directors to implement programming with regional staff in each city and supervised regional program staff (managers, coordinators and seasonal crew leaders).
• Ensured that programming was developed and implemented to SCA program and safety standards and met partner and funder requirements
• Provided instruction and support for staff training, orientation, and special events.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to meet performance metrics, mission and consistently evaluate programming; including using web-based applications such as Salesforce to manage and report on partners, participants.

Pittsburgh, PA

• Insured the consistent application of operational policies and procedures across SCA’s 12 Community Programs cities through staff training and program evaluation.
• Delivered department reports including program outcomes and accomplishments summary; assessment of total service outputs; participant and leader demographics; assessment analysis; curriculum and safety evaluation; and.
• Served as department lead for risk management matters (including compliance and reporting obligations, risk assessment and incident documentation).
• Provided oversight of SCA’s internal database management systems, agreements and billing, leader training, reporting, member enrollment and student payroll.
• Coordinated crew leader training and orientation.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Supervised of SCA’s AmeriCorps National Direct programso Intern recruitment and oversight, coalition development, partner coordination and management, program evaluation; personnel management and safety; grant writing.
• Managed SCA’s Sustainability Corps: Green Cities Corps and CT Clean Energy Corps o Personnel management and safety; grant research and writing; program planning, evaluation and reporting; budget management; partnership.
• Planned, supervised and implemented the Heinz Summer Youth in Philanthropy Internship o Orchestrated environmental literacy two-day workshop for thirty interns ages17–22; advised team of four interns during 9-week.

Master Of Science (Ms), Public Policy And Management

Teacher In Residency Licensure Program

Master Of Science (Ms), Environmental Education

Bs, Biology