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- Contribute to product vision and product strategy to help drive impact and usage.- Participate in wireframe design meetings, feedback cycles, and other product brainstorms.- Create IMPACT curriculum to teach block and JavaScript coding on MakeCode Arcade- Participate in committee to align scope and sequence of IMPACT curriculum to CSTA Standards- Conduct.

- Create curriculum for JR program featuring ScratchJr including instructional videos- Conduct Pilot for Red Belt curriculum and ensure products and releases are launched smoothly and on schedule- Create Camp curriculum featuring various coding platforms and concepts including Scratch, circuits, Youtube, and ScratchJr.- Collect and analyze feedback from.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Lead team of curriculum developers to ideate, create, and iterate on curriculum based on data and feedback. - Develop project based curriculum in block-based code, JavaScript, and p5.js for K-6th grade students.- Create concept videos using Camtasia and Google Apps. - Manage team priorities and backlog projects in agile sprints.- Lead professional.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Develop block-based coding curriculum for K-4th grade students.- Develop JavaScript coding curriculum for 5th grade students.- Develop K-5 coding curriculum based on California K-12 Computer Science Standards. - Align curriculum to Common Core Math Practices, ELA Speaking & Listening standards, and NGSS standards. - Create assessments and courses to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Instruct kindergarten, 1st, 3rd, and 4th grade levels of coding curriculum.- Create Professional Development on computer science curriculum.- Conduct site teachers Professional Development training and provide on-site support as needed for all training and technology issues.- Utilize data to inform instruction, differentiate and modify curriculum as.

Los Angeles

• Create and manage school website http://www.multnomahelementary.org/
• Facilitate a 13-week Google Apps for Educators course for fellow staff
• Spearhead school-wide data tracking system to facilitate tracking reading, writing, and math progress for all grade levels and classes.
• Recognized as Exceeding Standard Performance in 2015-2016 evaluation.
• Revise school wide discipline system by updating routines in tracking data.
• Track and analyze student data, strategically support and differentiate lessons in pursuit of desired outcomes.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Participated in policy and advocacy workshops alongside other Policy and Advocacy Summer Fellows- Collaborated with Fellows in discussing Root Cause Analysis, Los Angeles Regional education landscape, analyzing the policy cycle, problem/solutions, and the policy making process.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Research & learn about local Education Policies in Los Angeles- Analyzed the LCFF (Local control funding formula) Report Card and the LCAP (Local Control & Accountability Plan)- Provided feedback on a “parent toolkit” to help families become familiarized with their rights and how to access the right individuals.- Provided unique perspective of elementary.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Draft and implement rigorous curricula based on California and Common Core Standards
• Build efficiency in collaborative lesson planning by utilizing Google apps and mentoring teachers on Google apps.
• Track and analyze student data, strategically support and differentiate lessons in pursuit of desired outcomes.
• Create and implement management and classroom policies to streamline school operations
• Communicate and collaborate plans, progress, and resources with parents, teachers, staff and administrators
• Assist with organizing weekly check‐ins with the grade level.

Chicago

• Mentor new teachers, coordinate duties to Instructional Assistant in small group instruction.
• Create, organize and lead professional development sessions on NWEA, ClassDojo, Donor’s Choose.
• Draft and achieve grant through Donor’s Choose for a document camera to facilitate instruction via technology.
• Maintain tracking systems for student data and growth, utilize data for improvement.
• Developed effective data anylazation by creating a digital assessment tracker Excel document for staff
• Develop and implement rigorous 3nd grade literacy, science and social studies curricula based on Illinois state standards and ambitious grade level curriculum map

Chicago

• Selected as one of 5,300 accepted candidates out of 45,000 applicants (12% acceptance rate) to teach in an urban or rural school district across the nation.
• Taught remedial summer program for students in Chicago Public Schools
• Developed long-term plans based on Illinois standards and daily lesson plans based on curricular goals
• Engineered and execute classroom management systems and procedures
• Engaged in professional development workshops and discussions
• Compiled data, statistics and supplementary information to maintain research activities

Berkeley, CA

• Create and implement policies to streamline operations including recruitment, event promotion, contact list.
• Tracking spending to budget by managing annual budget of $3000 for events
• Coordinate production procurement including scheduling facilities and equipment for monthly events, correspondingregarding donations with vendors, coordinating communication between vendors and group.
• Mentor Steering Committee leaders and lead college mentors in supporting each other.
• Recruit, interview, and match UC Berkeley student mentors with middle school youth.
• Lead Steering Committee (leadership board) of 13 members

• Assist with campus events geared towards improving the university, including the Homecoming event, which hosts up to 6,000 each year.
• Directed telephone and electronic enquiries and forwarded telephone calls and messages to appropriate person
• Maintain databases tracking event acceptances and regrets.
• Create and produce nametags, place cards, and signs for events.
• Set up invitations for various events, including hand-address, stuff, stamp and seal envelopes for events.

• Introduce and administer research on differences in the acquisition of language between ages.
• Administer various tasks to subjects, including training participants on how to complete the experiment, presenting visual and auditory information to participants, debriefing participants, coding collected data, data.
• Compiled data, statistics and supplementary information to maintain research activities

• Introduce and administer research on personality psychology, particularly theories of self-verification.
• Administer tasks to participants, coding collected data, inputting data, and potential data analysis.

UC Berkeley

-Execute complete redesign of volume 3 (published Spring 2010)-Layout Design can be found at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35524426/Volume-3-Spring-2010-Coordinated and taught undergraduate students layout design in research journals DeCal Course Facilitator, Psych 98/198: Psychology Publications Workshop.

• Greeted visitors, determine nature of dealing and send visitors to correct person
• Assist customers with finding products
• Maintained positive rapport with customers aimed at offering a positive experience

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Anthropology, Distinction In General Scholarship

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Elementary Education And Teaching