Melinda Sloan Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Created professional learning workshops and customer-facing resources, including slide decks, facilitator scripts, and participant guides, to support the implementation of new curricula.
• Presented a customized professional learning workshop, resulting in 4.88/5.00 effectiveness rating from participants.
• Initiated and facilitated a multi-team book study leading to increased team cohesion and refinement of processes, enabling improvements in workshop development.
• Collaborated with a professional learning team to create and revise customer-facing resources, including checklists, templates, and observation tools.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Coordinated instructional services for 30 institutions in Houston, Alief, San Antonio, Austin, Temple, Killeen, and El Paso. Supported intervention curriculum implementation, resulting in an 85% growth rate in reading.
• Hired, trained, and provided individualized instructional coaching to 35 staff members annually, ensuring quality of services and development of teacher skills.
• Analyzed staffing data to develop and facilitate targeted professional development programs for 150+ staff members annually, including new-hire training, continuing education, and employee recognition.
• Utilized Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Survey data to increase annual staff retention from 50% to 85% among part-time, hourly staff.
• Monitored contractual agreements and financial spend down, generating over $2,600,000 in revenue in FY23.
• Drove geographic expansion of programs, contributing to doubling of team revenue over FY22-23, by optimizing and managing operations.

• Led a team of 14 teachers, aligning curricula and instructional practices across 13 history, humanities, and social science courses.
• Supported team members’ professional growth through coaching cycles, resulting in 93% staff retention from 2019-2020 to 2020-2021 school years despite the COVID-19 impact.
• Led collaborative teams in developing departmental mission statement and DEI guidelines for the teaching of sensitive topics.
• Facilitated grade-level team meetings which resulted in curricula for four new history courses.
• Analyzed data and adjusted instruction to improve student outcomes, resulting in Advanced Placement exam scores more than double the national average.

Filled a mid-year vacancy teaching eleventh-grade Advanced Placement U.S. History and mentoring students completing an online Dual Credit U.S. History course through Lone Star College.

• Led team of 9+ social studies teachers in data monitoring and strategic planning, which raised student passing rates on state exams from 75% to 99% over 2 years
• Created and presented staff development for 75+ teachers and led Critical Friends Groups using National School Reform Faculty protocols as part of a multi-year professional development program.
• Led collaborative team of Advanced Placement teachers to develop a summer “A.P. Bootcamp” and afterschool sessions that annually provided skills instruction to over 300 students.
• Analyzed data and adjusted instruction to improve student outcomes, resulting in A.P. U.S. Government students earning an average student score of 4.42 on national exam and 100% of World History II students passing.

• Led team of 10+ social studies teachers ensuring alignment between practice and organizational goals
• Provided school-wide professional development on Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, leading to improved instructional support for emergent bilingual students.

Filled a mid-year vacancy teaching eighth-grade Civics and Economics.

• Taught eleventh-grade U.S. History and Advanced Placement U.S. History.
• Named Fort Bend Independent School District’s “Rookie Teacher of the Year,” 2003.

Mentored 4 student teachers working toward Texas state secondary certification, observing and debriefing their classes on a daily basis for 6 weeks.

• Created history curriculum utilized by teachers in the Houston Independent School District, resulting increased use of Rice's Community in History program.
• Planned and facilitated professional learning workshops for 15+ Houston-area educators.
• Assisted in the drafting of grant proposals and progress reports to the National Endowment for the Humanities, leading to continuation of grant funding.

Mat, Social Studies

Activities and Societies: Awarded James Madison Fellowship for Virginia, 2010 Action Research Project – “Untangling the Gordian Knot: Test.

History

Activities and Societies: Awarded Donald I. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2002