Rinda Montgomery is a Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer, Chief Learning and Development Officer at Paradigm Learning Systems. She possess expertise in educational leadership, curriculum design, curriculum development, educational technology, special education and 45 more skills. She is proficient in Spanish. Colleagues describe her as "I am writing this letter to recommend Ms. Rinda Montgomery for a position within your educational system or business. In the past, I have had the opportunity to work with Ms. Montgomery as she has provided engaged professional leadership and support to school districts. Ms. Montgomery has many years of professional education service. She has taught students, mentored teachers, come along side administrators. Ms. Montgomery consistently supports positive planning that leads to implementing through facilitating and gauging outcomes for further growth and developments. Ms. Montgomery is a lifelong learner and is open to taking training and courses to support productive service in the field of education. She is one that can be counted on to demonstrate a growth mind set in all that she does with youth, families, colleagues and fellow administrators. Ms Montgomery excels as and instructional leader. It is my experience that Ms. Montgomery is cognizant and intentionally instrumental in carrying out various improvement initiatives. She works well with staff in training providing concerted strategies for structured enhanced integrated core curriculum in project-based demonstrations of learning. Ms. Montgomery has purpose and it is her mission to take the students' learning seriously consistently monitoring through formative assessments: student engagement, skill and concept development. She knows what her students know and can do at all stages and is deeply foraging options of what else can be done to further support learning. Ms Montgomery takes an obstacle and turns it into a challenge- she is a problem solver. While I served as district superintendent working with Ms. Montgomery, I found her to be one that I counted on to be a critical friend and professional that would hear me out, ask questions and work with me supporting identifying specific strengths, needs and concerns. We celebrated success of district accreditation, addressed needs and concerns through strategic short and long range planning and implementations. Further, Ms. Montgomery provided mentoring to new teachers supporting engagement, classroom management, formative assessment, and mapping of their curriculum. This service history demonstrates that Ms. Montgomery provides a display of varied and braided levels of constructive administrative leadership. It is for the above-mentioned reasons, coupled with her honesty, integrity, confidentiality, hard work, and caring attitude that I highly recommend, Ms. Rinda Montgomery for a leadership position- administration, teaching, facilitating, or mentoring in your school district or business. Sincerely, Nancy D. Moon Qualified Mental Health Associate Children's Mental Health Wrap Around Coordinator Best Care Treatment Madras, Oregon 97741 "