Rebecca Eppall (Eppler-Epstein) Email & Phone Number

Support a team of instructional coaches who work to improve literacy and equitable outcomes in schools.Build and maintain partnerships with schools and districts to support their efforts towards improving outcomes for students.Lead and support organization-wide professional learning and development

Support teacher and school-based coaches in improving their practice so that students have access to an inclusive, equitable, and empowering educational experience

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Lead a team of educators providing support to young adults in social justice education, social emotional learning, and work towards completion of a high school credential.

Lowell, Ma

• Support the social-emotional and academic development of proven-risk youth.• Create individualized action plans to support youth in obtaining their HiSET (high school equivalency) credential.• Facilitate social justice programming for youth and staff on topics related to power, oppression, and change.

• Classroom teacher. Designed, modified, and delivered objective-aligned lessons that met the needs of underserved students while dramatically improving academic outcomes. Created an inclusive, warm classroom culture in which students were proud of themselves, their peers, and their personal and academic progress; facilitated student discussions on classroom culture, diversity and current events.• As Science Department Chair, led meetings of the school science teachers to facilitate collaboration and ensure alignment of academic expectations and continuity across grade levels.• Measure of success: 87% of students in 2015 and 85% of students in 2016 scored in the Proficient range or higher on their 8th Grade Science NY State Exam.• As Middle School Science Curriculum Advisor for the entire Democracy Prep network, made curricular recommendations and improved curricular resources based on my classroom experience, and led science content professional development sessions for 25 teachers.• Founded and facilitated an after-school Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and an LGBTQ safe space lunch group.• Led staff training on personal organization; facilitated a staff innovation circle to brainstorm effective co-working solutions for 32 teachers sharing a one-room professional workspace.

New York City, Ny

East New York, Brooklyn, Ny

• Created curriculum based on Next Generation Science Standards.• As a classroom teacher, designed and delivered objective-aligned lessons that met the needs of underserved students while drastically improving academic outcomes.• Met with grade level and content teams to reflect on lesson execution, share best practices, and analyze classroom data to inform instruction.• Supported student reading growth through guided reading and independent reading instructional time.• Measure of success: led students to 82% mastery on average in second semester of first year teaching, and led students to grow from 51% to 87% standards mastery in first semester of second year teaching.• Spearheaded an initiative to implement a grade-wide Town Hall meeting, facilitated the creation of a school motto, and wrote a school song to foster school pride.

New York City

Selected through a highly competitive nationwide process to join national teacher corps of recent college graduates and professionals who commit two years to teach in under-resourced public schools.

Amherst, Ma

Research on the model organism C. elegans in the lab of Caroline Goutte. Examined the mechanism of rnf-5 suppression of the aph-1(zu147) mutation, a mutation related to Alzheimer’s. Constructed and analyzed mutant strains to study the role of rnf-5 in the Notch Signaling Pathway.

New Haven, Ct

• Prepared low-income inner-city New Haven public middle school students for college preparatory high schools and the exams required for entrance to those schools• Wrote lesson plans and devised activities for a skills-based 8th grade science course• Organized and oversaw basic physics, chemistry and biology lab exercises

New Haven, Ct

• Dissected ticks, ran DNA extractions, PCR and QPCR to learn about the microbiome of the tick’s midgut• Looked for possible bacterial preventors of Lyme disease and Anaplasma

Masters Of Arts In Teaching, Biology Grades 5-9

B.A., Biology And Music

Activities and Societies: DQ (a capella group), Fencing Club, Concert Choir, Jazz Ensemble

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