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• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships with community organizations that support school success.• Provide support for multiple schools simultaneously to ensure seamless integration, success, and satisfaction with learning solutions.• Provide digital strategies to facilitate school administration decision making.• Develop and deploy strategies and solutions to address difficult and complicated problems. • Recruit, select and manage professional learning consultants to support state level initiatives and drive academic success within school districts.• Analyze appropriate data collection from stakeholders for continuous improvement and quality control. • Communicate with stakeholders to ensure the specific needs of our diverse customer base are met.

• Serve as the main point of contact for a variety of NVDOE contacts, regional professional development centers, and district partners to launch and implement statewide partnership of Discovery Education Experience (DEX).• Strategize, develop, and activate digital outreach strategies that will cultivate and nurture relationships with decision-making individuals responsible for education programming within our state/regional entities. Individual will be assigned and accountable for developing/ executing critical-issue-specific business development strategies. • Maintain accurate/timely records within CRM tools of business development activities and coordinate development reports and outreach and usage dashboards regarding all prospective partner activities. • Project Manage large scale professional development plans between state partners, districts, and internal professional learning consultants to drive awareness and usage of DEX. • Collaborate with the Discovery Education Community (DEN) to elevate, celebrate and share best practices across the state.• Proactively maintain a thorough understanding of Discovery Education’s overall goals and strategic vision for the future of education, and the private sector’s role within the mission to reimagine teaching and learning. • Collaboratively establish structured rollout plans including user management, Professional learning support and track progress to ensure on-time delivers and that plans stay within scope of partnership• Schedule and deliver product training and product professional learning aligned to the specific contract and needs of the state and local districts.• Review, understand, and in some instances, create the professional learning content to ensure fidelity and quality of implementation.• Reflect continuously upon each professional learning delivery to improve the quality of the experience for the districts.• Establish and build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders.

• Delivers expert level training to customers for educational print, blended, and digital programs.• Ensures successful in-service training and experiences for all customers.• Plans and manages travel schedule and assignments to customer sites.• Communicates regularly with customers and sales team as training sessions are planned and delivered.• Provides post activation and follow up support if needs arise.

• Plans and executes a training program for literacy coaches/facilitators, teachers, and leadership teams.• Builds a strong team of eight instructional school site facilitators fostering both independence and a productive team environment.• Analyzes programmatic reports and other assessment results to determine performance improvement approaches and interventions.• Directs consultative service by way of technical assistance, feedback and evaluation to eight elementary schools.

• Conducts coaching and implementation visits at school sites.• Conducts on-going data analysis while coaching and supporting the Continuous Improvement Process using state, school, and program data. • Maintains regular communication with schools by phone, email, and personal contact.• Works with schools to develop achievement plans specific to the needs of the schools. • Trains schools on the successful implementation of SFA programs. Presents the SFA program at schools, school districts, and national conferences.

• Provides instructional leadership to staff including: curriculum planning, professional learning communities, data analysis, instructional coaching and professional development. • School based leadership and decision making to ensure a comprehensive plan with annual student achievement targets, supported by parents, staff, and community members • Responsible for day-to-day building administration and the safety and welfare of students. • Plans and executes staff, student and family activities for an at-risk elementary school with more than 500 students and 50 staff members. • Ensures a safe, pleasant and effective educational atmosphere, provides discipline as necessary and enforces school policy. • Facilitates Lukeville Upper Elementary School community to develop and maintain a student-centered vision for education, while using knowledge of teaching and learning to work collaboratively with faculty and staff to implement effective and innovative teaching practices which engaged students in meaningful and challenging learning experiences.

• Supervises a team of professionals, including teachers, para-professionals, nurse and support staff. • Manages the academic, social-emotional and physical dynamics of a student body of approximately 475 learners. • Assists the principal in the effective management of programs, personnel, materials, and facilities for the purpose of developing an optimal learning climate for the unique needs of each of our students. • Assists the principal in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating functions of the overall management and leadership of the school. • Ensures a positive school climate through consistent implementation of positive behavior support that results in maintaining a safe, respectful and fair learning environment.

Forest Heights Academy ofExcellence, Baton Rouge, LA* Selected to assist in the development of the East Baton Rouge Parish Schools Elementary ELACurriculum. As part of the curriculum writing team, I was responsible for taking the fifth grade standardsfor ELA and creating engaging student activities along with a pacing guide for teachers to follow

B.A, Elementary Education

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

M.S, Educational Leadership And Supervision

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