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Perform community and career support services for adults and students with disabilities; provide life, career, and executive functioning coaching; resume and job application support

• Team leader for post-secondary special education program that provides student support and practice of Virginia’s Workplace Readiness Skills (WRS)• Daily delivery of instructional program and facilitation of team member delivery of standardized lessons • Provide team professional development and coordination of professional learning community (PLC)• Personnel management and evaluation of team members• Monitor delivery of special education program and serve as designee for individual education program meetings• Mentorship of team members and colleagues in school• Data management of student grades, student attendance, pre and post annual assessments; utilize student achievement data to adapt student instructional delivery methods, student assessments, remediation schedule• Troubleshooting technology support for students and fellow program staff • Maintenance of online team data drive (Google Drive) and establishment of program website (Google Classroom, Schoology)• Facilitate formal educational testing for student eligibility of special education program, generate data reports

Board Chairman and former secretary for Stafford’s best private Christian school; in role I have assisted with: budget management, staff evaluations, policy development, financial aid, donor development, mentorship and more.

• Coordinate and facilitate collaborative student-centered individualized education programs (IEPs) and reevaluation meetings • Ongoing mentorship and professional development creation for special education teachers in secondary program for students with emotional/behavioral disabilities and post-secondary program that facilitates employment and job support• Conduct observations and evaluations of teacher work and monitor delivery of instructional program with administrative team• Utilized student achievement data (state standardized assessments) to make programmatic decisions, individual student support• Facilitate weekly CSS administrative and CSS staff meetings • Troubleshoot and address concerns with parents, school staff during critical and difficult scenarios• Create and maintain Google team drive for program, creation of FAQ and instructional manuals for program staff • Spokesperson for program at county-wide meetings, school administration meetings, parent-teacher conferences, IEP meetings, post-grad transition meetings• Improvement and facilitation of behavior management program or Positive Behavior Intervention System • Provided logistical support through management of master schedule, providing teacher coverage, monitoring student graduation requirements, student behavioral support• Maintain and manage balanced budget of $15,000; researched, ordered and delivered materials for program• Administer state assessments and coordinate accommodations, personnel, locations, materials management • Subject-area expertise in standards-based goals, accommodations, and troubleshooting IEPs and general program concerns • Interim administrator during program transition (from Nov 2016 to Jan 2017)

Oversee day-to-day operations of program; events, crisis scenarios, parent concerns, scheduling. Regular communication with parents, community members; intervene in mediation and community crises. Respond to crises that arise during daily activity; facilitate crisis intervention meetings with students/staff members. Organize documents, gather information for program during accreditation process (VAISEF and VDOE); complete CAP. Administer hiring and termination of staff positions; ongoing staff observations, professional development, coaching. Maintain regular communication with Local Education Agency(s) from FCPS, DCPS, ACPS, and PWCS. Attend, participate, and facilitate IEP, IIP, FBA/BIP, Reevaluation meetings. Assist in Transition Support as a part of the IEP/IIP team; facilitate transition to Least Restrictive Environment

History teacher and crisis resource specialist

History teacher and teacher mentor

Music contractor for unidentified immigrant minors (UIM) and emotional disabled youth; elements of music therapy, curriculum development, direct instruction, and more