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Athens, Georgia, United States

Athens, Georgia, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Set vision, goals, and progress-monitoring metrics for all instructional, cultural, and operational outcomes at a middle school campus of 540 students and 40 staff members
• Collaborate with department chairs to drive 69% and 61% growth in the number of students reaching proficiency in math and English, respectively, over a 2-year period, resulting in academic growth in the 92nd percentile.
• Build and execute a multiyear, schoolwide professional growth strategy; facilitate dynamic, human-centered adult learning experiences that build teacher skills and habits that translate to dramatic academic gains for.
• Coach, develop, and empower two assistant principals, school operations manager, school psychologist, clinical therapist, and 10 teachers annually to drive student-level outcomes and to meet each team member’s unique.
• Cultivate a comprehensive data-driven culture that centers around rapid, iterative change cycles in which team members leverage student-level data to inform strategic decision-making
• Prioritize the recruitment, development, and empowerment of best-in-class talent, resulting in staff retention growing from 55% to 100% over a 3-year period

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Evaluated and supported the development of 11-12 teachers and classified staff per year on the College Ready Teaching Framework
• Led the Intervention and security teams to manage student discipline with an emphasis on intervention-based response and restorative practices; facilitates tiered support to students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of.
• Led the math department in vision- and goal-setting, planning Common Core-aligned lessons, modeling instructional practices, and monitoring ongoing progress
• Managed the administration of school-wide assessments: Green Dot common assessments, CELDT testing, Physical Fitness Testing, and school culture survey
• Coordinates all 8th grade promotion activities, including student and family communication, eligibility reports, 8th grade activities, and the promotion ceremony itself
• Serves as a member of the Student Support & Interventions Council at Green Dot California

San Francisco Bay Area

• Set instructional vision and design/deliver professional development for the math and non-fiction studies departments
• Set school-wide behavioral Response to Intervention (RtI) vision, built structures for strong positive behavior support and managed the RtI team
• Conducted a year-long action research project focused on leading the math department in building student-centered rubrics that assess and drive student learning in the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice.
• Provided individual instructional coaching to 13 math and non-fiction studies teachers centered around developing rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms

San Francisco Bay Area

• Coached and developed 57 new teachers over two years to have a transformative impact on roughly 6,000 students growing up in low-income urban areas in the Bay Area by:o providing technical teacher training and.
• Taught 8th grade Algebra at Everett Middle School to pilot hybrid teaching/coaching model

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Directed all operations and instruction for two, four-week summer school programs (each with approximately 400 students) at G.W. Carver Middle School in South Los Angeles

San Francisco Bay Area

• Increased proficiency rates on the Mathematics California Standards Test on average from 47% to 76% for over 350 students – the highest growth in school history
• Led math department as chair (2009-11); increased school-wide math proficiency rates from 47% to 60% —the highest growth of all middle schools in San Francisco Unified School District in 2010

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided intensive individual coaching support for 12 new teachers during four-week summer school at Stevenson Middle School in East Los Angeles

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed all site operations for four-week summer school at Aspire Centennial College Prep Academy in Huntington Park

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Ecology And Evolutionary Biology

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Urban Education And Leadership