Team Management: Support and oversee a highly collaborative team of full-time instructional coaches. Recruit, train, orient and provide ongoing coaching of all new coaches.Coaching and Professional Development: Continue to work directly with current school partners to provide data-driven instructional coaching and equity-centered professional development.Partnership Development: Bring on new fee-for-service partners and grow WriteBoston’s professional development services to new schools, districts, and youth-serving organizations throughout Massachusetts.Project Management: Oversee project planning, contracting, and progress monitoring as well as some grants management for all professional learning partnerships.Organizational Learning: Support all WriteBoston staff in cultivating and demonstrating the organizational competencies by planning and facilitating internal staff professional development and thought partnering with the Executive Director on issues of equity and anti-racism.Served as Interim Director September 2022-May 2023

Engage in 1:1 coaching that is flexible and responsive to youth and educator needs. Coaching activities include classroom observations and debriefs, co-planning curriculum, co-teaching, analyzing student data, and more.Plan and lead professional development workshops that are learner-centered and equity-basedFacilitate educator collaborative groups, such as grade level or subject teams.Serve as a thought partner with school and organizational leadership, to plan and implement coordinated capacity building and professional learning for all staff.

Observed 4-6 teaching fellows each week and debriefed through targeted coaching.Provided daily lesson plan feedback with a focus on making lessons student-centered and accessible.Planned and facilitated professional development as well as department meetings.

Teach 10th-grade English with an emphasis on inclusion of students with moderate and severe disabilitiesRevise curriculum to include more diverse voices and perspectives from historically marginalized groups

January-May 2019Course assistant for an upper level English Methods course for the Harvard Teacher Fellows program.Co-led and co-planned course sessions with the professor.Provided one on one coaching for first year English teachers in the course on curriculum design and other aspects of their teaching, with a focus on equity.June-August 2019 & 2020Course assistant for Methods IV: Teacher-led Professional Development.Assisted professor in planning for course sessions and major assignments.Provided second year teachers in the course with thorough feedback on artifacts from their practice, with a focus on equity and inclusion.Independently planned and led a professional development session for the entire Harvard Teacher Fellows Program, including fellows, their mentors, and some faculty.

Co-plan and lead the school’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion professional development for all staff.Meet regularly with school leaders to assess and push the school’s priorities through a DEI lens.Advise the head of school on issues of adult culture, culturally responsive pedagogy, and hiring and recruitment.Manage a DEI budget for the school.

Lead the team of 8th grade English teachers from across the Excel charter network.Push for meaningful changes to curriculum and instruction to best support students to enter high school.Serve as a support for new 8th grade English teachers in the network.Place equity and culturally responsive pedagogy at the forefront of all the work we do.Set agendas for English department time for the grade level.

Teach 8th grade English to two sections of 29 students each.Collect and reflect on multiple forms of student data to drive instruction.Accommodate and modify curriculum for students with IEPs, 504 plans, and ELL status.Increase the cultural responsiveness of the curriculum by adding more diverse texts, more opportunities for student choice and autonomy, and more real-world application of curriculum.

Co-taught 7th grade Humanities in the section with the most students with IEPs and ELL status.Advocated for meaningful changes to the curriculum, such as more hands-on projects and chances for students to make real world connections to the curriculum. Led honors reading groups on topics such as multiethnic American literature and mental illness through the arts and also coached the mock trial team.