Michael Blankenburg Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Observe graduate students in their K-12 classrooms to provide specific, actionable feedback around best teaching practices, including culturally responsive strategies• Serve as the primary academic advisor to graduate students, utilizing a culturally responsive approach to advisement• Modify, revise, and re-design elements of the Applications of Effective Teaching curriculum to meet the varied needs of students and contexts in which they teach• Leverage Nearpod platform tools to facilitate instruction of the Applications of Effective Teaching classes, ensuring a balance of affective and cognitive approaches for maximum studentengagement• Created and led supplementary Year 1 sessions: “Make it Matter: Lesson Relevancy” and “Rebooting Your Classroom”• Grade assessments, synthesize performance data, track cohort progress, and identify gaps in graduate student understanding• Maintain accurate data of student progress to facilitate data-driven advisement and support

Greater New York City Area

*Supervise teaching fellows throughout NYC public schools.*Facilitate reflective post-observation conversations. *Provide targeted feedback and strategies for improved practice.*Evaluate fellow performance using development rubric (based on Danielson Framework).*Submit quantitative and qualitative data reports as required.

Brooklyn, Ny

*Researching standards, curricula and pedagogy*Deciding what content is taught and how it is taught*Writing activities, quizzes, lesson plans and other teaching tools*Proposing site feature improvements*Communicating with educators about how to improve Flocabulary content

Auburn, Maine

*Provided onsite training and technical assistance for both classroom implementation and systemic integration of the KIDS model for service-learning.*Collaborated, reflected, and problem solved with other KIDS Consortium staff about ongoing work at partner school districts.• Developed and delivered resources and strategies that connect diverse school initiatives to the implementation of the KIDS model for service-learning.•Contributing writer for KIDS As Planners: A Guide to Strengthening Students, Schools, and Communities through Service-Learning, Third Edition.

Austin, Texas

*Provided support, coaching, mentoring in service-learning to districts, Education Service Centers, and organizations; conducted site visits*Managed grant programs and evaluated reports, budgets, and overall progress; reviewed proposals and facilitated negotiations with grantees*Provided exemplary professional development to district program coordinators, teachers, and administrators*Designed and presented on service-learning at city and state conferences*Collaborated with other staff to create content, design layout, and evaluate usability for innovative new website*Conceived the LEADERS Model, a process model for service-learning practice; led collaborative design process for fine-tuning and strengthening the model; integrated national service-learning quality standards into the model *Planned and facilitated the annual Summer Institute, a conference for over 250 educators; identified new research, speakers, and content areas for Institute offerings

*Designed daily lesson plans to meet state standards; created cross-curricular projects, rubrics, and assessment toolsDesigned and implemented the first AP Language and Composition curriculum *Served as AP Reader for the Language and Composition Exam, 2002-2007*Mentored new and apprentice teachers served on scholarship, advisory, and campus improvement committees*Advised students in the collection, evaluation, and publication of Austin High’s literary journal*Sponsored students in the founding and meetings of Austin High’s first Gay-Straight Alliance

M.A., English Education

Activities and Societies: STUDENT TEACHER SUPERVISOR responsible for evaluating and coaching student teachers placed in various high.

B.S., Education