As an Instructional Coach I provide the highest quality professional learning (both online and in-person) focused on improving instructional practices and increasing student achievement. I am a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) ambassador with customers and other consultants, promoting services, curriculum solutions and resources. In this role I lead by example, invite educators to deepen their knowledge, stretch their thinking, and take bold action.

Instructional Design, Development & Evaluation:As a consultant, I apply my knowledge of instructional design to create high-impact training and development solutions to meet the needs of adult learners. Contributions include:*Collaborate with business and client leaders to define objectives and deliverables for the project.*Create a storyboard to guide the process.*Create the curriculum design using models that outlines the scope and sequence of the learning program. This includes topics, activities and assessments.*Create the content for the training.*Create assessments that measure the learning. *Design an evaluation plan to measure effectiveness of the training.

Provided instruction, support and coaching for students and teachers within large school district. Contributions include:*Taught all grades K-7 (Classroom & Reading Academic Intervention Support)*Participated in district wide teams including social emotional learning, technology, assessment, curriculum planning and several building planning teams.*Facilitated workshops for teachers to increase students achievement*Facilitated workshops with a colleague to increase self awareness around emotion using the work of Marc Brackett, "Permission to Feel"*Created a mentor program at the middle school with two colleagues*Wrote grants to NSEF and Fund for Teachers and was awarded them

In this role, I developed, designed and implemented training using adult learning theories and methodologies.

For 9 years I traveled with high school students all over the world with a program called People to People. This program was founded by President Eisenhower. He believed if students could learn about other cultures, we could bring peace to the world. "Peace through Understanding" was his motto. It was an amazing opportunity to learn about other cultures. We traveled to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, China, Costa Rica, and Europe.

As an Instructional coach and literacy coordinator I had the opportunity to coach teachers (K-2) in the classroom and provide staff development based on best research practices in education. This was truly a growth model that allowed me to work with teachers on many different levels (facilitator, trainer, consultant, coach, etc.), teach an ELA block, and provide 40 hours of staff development to K-2 teachers during the school year. The first year I coached six teachers (first grade) and the second added on another 11 teachers (K, Speech, resource). My forte is looking at the data and thinking about where to go next based on students individual needs. We also thought about the what, why, how, check of our lessons. What are we doing? Why are we teaching this particular skill or strategy? How are we going to teach this particular skill and strategy? How do we check that students have learned what we wanted them to learn? How do we get students to notice that they have learned what we wanted them to learn? Our thinking, teaching, and planning, was grounded in constructivism and inquiry. We dove deep into data to determine strengths, areas of growth and identified gaps in learning.

Serving my country was an amazing first career. I received the Humanitarian Service Medal while stationed at Hill AFB. I received this medal because I volunteered to support the community during the Red River Flood of 1997 in North Dakota.