Muriel Smith Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

-Applies social studies curriculum development expertise to setting criteria and framework for developing rigorous college and career preparation curricula in DCPS schools.-Utilizes instructional, adult facilitation, and coaching expertise in content-specific pedagogy, planning, and practice to improve the effectiveness of social studies instruction in.

-Develop curricular assets as a part of the Education Innovation Research grant and an American History and Civics - National Activities study -Design rigorous, high-quality, standards aligned performance tasks in which students produce authentic, discipline-specific writing in response to reading complex, authentic texts. Each task includes and aligned.

-Designed and facilitated meaningful, rigorous, inclusive learning experiences to support program faculty in building understanding of scientifically-grounded reading instruction-Supported faculty – through ongoing, individualized coaching – to implement content that will support teacher-candidates to practice scientifically-grounded reading instruction.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Served as a consultant for 5th-8th grade Social Studies teachers to write inquiry-based unit plans for Ancient World History, Modern World History, and United States History using the C3 framework, primary source sets, and assessments as a part of the department’s Decolonize the Curriculum Project

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Collaborated with the instructional leadership team to develop a vision and facilitate schoolwide ongoing professional development and accountability systems to establish a culture for using technology for teaching and.
• Facilitated high quality professional development to improve the integration of technology in K-8 classrooms
• Created and executed a curriculum to teach highest leverage technology competencies to all Maureen Joy middle school students

Remote

• Created a standards-aligned, student-centered, rigorous middle school Social Studies curriculum with unit plans, assessments, lesson plans, curated primary source sets, and lesson materials that center the experience.
• Collaborated with the other member of the Curriculum Development Team to vertically-align the skills, themes, and anti-racist instructional practices embedded into the curriculum

• Translated ambitious organizational goals into yearly programming goals for our teams
• Oversaw daily operations of all program activities to ensure they were planned and executed with fidelity and remained aligned with the strategic priorities of the organization
• Facilitated the professional and skill development for all members of the program teams
• Served as the advisor to the Executive Director on strategic institutional decisions

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Created and executed a rigorous literacy-based 8th grade American history course that engaged students with primary sources that integrated the historical experiences of Black and Latinx communities for students to.
• Sourced materials including primary source documents, multimedia, collegiate lectures, tv shows, non-fiction texts, and more to diversify the formats of historical knowledge used as a foundation for the course
• Analyzed and responded to data on a daily and weekly level to assess student mastery of content and literacy skills
• Built strong classroom community and relationships with students and their families and tracked grade level goals centered around student culture and parent communication
• Facilitated the publication of two student anthologies The Path We Have Taken (2018) & Our Journey through American History (2019)

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Redesigned the Social Studies curriculum to center primary sources and literacy skills
• Provided effective professional development and coaching to teachers implementing the new Social Studies curriculum
• Coached teachers to 83% mastery of weekly action steps, including coaching a first-year teacher from a classroom absent of high expectations to mastery by implementing a short-cycle of daily observation and feedback
• Observe all teachers and give weekly feedback and helped teachers respond to data daily to drive student academic achievement

• Developed the 5th grade Nonfiction (Science/Social Studies) curriculum
• Led cohort of 94 students to exceptional growth in science and Social Studies per the state of Tennessee
• Created agenda and facilitate weekly staff meetings
• Created new systems for discipline and student support
• Conducted weekly evaluations of school culture and staff performance
• Served as the stand in school leader when the school leader is out of the building

Corps Member. Selected to join national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools. Transition Team Leader. Co- led a group of ten incoming corps members in their transition to Teach for America and Nashville. Served on the Institute/Induction committee. Organized and delivered care packages to.

Taught 5th and 6th grade Social Studies to approximately eighty students at New Vision Academy. Integrated Common Core informational text standards into social studies curriculum. 100% of 6th graders scored proficient/advanced on the 2012 TCAP. 89% of 5th graders scored proficient/advanced on the 2012 TCAP.

Bachelor Of Arts, International Studies

Every Nation Campus Ministry; Public Service Scholar

Masters Of Arts, Teaching

Tanzania

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