Support the students, staff, and community of Pleasant Hill Elementary (PHE)

• Provide feedback and input to administration on school decisions, including staff meeting structure, administrative goals and vision, and academy creation and placement process• Contribute to WASC report and SPSA site plan

• Collaboratively set goals and vision for Oakland Technical 9th grade inquiry process• Help plan and facilitate monthly 9th grade staff meetings focused on teacher inquiry to improve their teaching practice

• Plan and facilitate weekly team meetings and monthly pathway meetings• Create yearly budgets and site plan (SPSA) for 9th grade activities, resources, and professional development based on team input• Meet weekly with administration to determine goals and vision of 9th grade activities• Developed student intervention protocol and intervention tracking system• Planned 9th grade retreat, collaborating with MOSAIC Project to plan community building activities

• Initiated 9th grade California Studies curriculum redesign, centering curriculum around thematic unit structure focused on civic engagement and critical literacy• Create and implement thematic California Studies curriculum taught through an Ethnic Studies framework, with an emphasis on analytical and argumentative writing, student-directed discussion, and multiple literacies

• Engaged department in goal setting and began vertically aligning curriculum across department• Planned and facilitated bi-monthly department meetings

• Created civic engagement rubric through monthly design team meetings, where we developed, implemented, and reflected on different aspects of a civic engagement curriculum• Presented our capstone civic engagement project at the Free Minds, Free People Conference in Oakland, June, 2015

• Instructed classes of 50+ students on abstract logical concepts and methodology & individually tutored students of all skill levels• Mentored new instructors in the Bay Area – helped them prepare their lessons, observed their classes, and provided feedback, discussing methods of instruction and pedagogical strategies• Wrote weekly educational and entertaining posts for the Most Strongly Supported Blog

Taught Sophomore World Literature & Senior A.P. English Literature

Taught Junior Honors American Literature

Performed as a Solider/Athlete in the world premier of the opera "Heart of a Soldier."

• Managed extensive communications, including monthly newsletter, among 100s of U.S. chapters• Assisted basic website maintenance, including organizational restructuring as well as editing and updating content

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Restaurant and Banquet Server