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Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Provide coaching for Cross Country and Track and Field at HSA McKinley Park. Develop talent and scout potential athletes for IHSA athletic competition. • During the 2023 Track season, our Girls division took home top 5 honors for conference play. • 2024 All Conference Runner up--Boys Track & Field

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Experience in teaching Media Technology (emphasis on media literacy & A.I. technology). • Experience teaching High School Law and Mock Trial Unit: Expulsion Case. • Constitution and Amendment cases. Debate simulations on enduring questions in the field. • Teach Modern U.S. History topics. Units include Civil War Media Project, Progressive Era Photo Analysis, and Historical Thinking persuasive essays.

● Experience Teaching Algebra 2 and Consumer Math Concepts to a diverse student population; including modifying content for students with individual education plans and teaching honors level Algebra 2 coursework. ● Experience tutoring SAT specific topics: Heart of Algebra, Passport to Advanced Mathematics. ● Regularly participate in department meetings, professional developments, and curriculum updates. ● Experience working and teaching lessons remotely and posting relevant content online. ● Experience using Google Classroom to update posts, learning content, and other Algebra 2 related content (Quadratics, Combinatorics, Statistics).

Chicago, Illinois, United States

● Monitor and teach secondary students using College Board official SAT practice topics for ELA: (topics include) Reading Science, Literature, History, Social Science; Writing Argument, Informative, Narrative. ● Lead single and whole group discussions of SAT specific practice questions. ● Teach reading for information, SAT strategies and pacing. ● Utilize technology (Smart Board, Google Classroom) to facilitate materials. ● Use Khan Academy Official SAT practice student accounts to assist in developing students’ skills levels for English SAT topics (Reading, Writing, Grammar and Effective Language Use).

● Experience teaching English III, and college level composition courses for regular and honors level classes. ● Units taught include ELA Topic(s): Coming to America, Building a Democracy, Digital Media Comprehension: Media Literacy.● Experience teaching persuasive and rhetorical writing, and MLA formatting style.● Experience working with technology in a hybrid/remote work setting environment.

● Collected data and recorded anecdotal student progress notes. ● Maintained and organized program notebooks and implemented program modifications.● Assisted instructional personnel by running student specific learning goals, according to the student's Individual Education Plan.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

● Experience writing literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, and summarizing complex information through data transcription techniques. ● Experience using content analysis methodology to examine news media, print, and social science research publications. ● Experience in writing for college level and graduate writing formats (MLA, Chicago, APA, AP).● Experience in writing for statistical analysis, rhetorical studies, and persuasive essays.● Experience conducting media analysis.● Experience collecting data for communication and media studies research.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

● Collected and analyzed research publications in Discourse Analysis, Communication Analysis, Ethnography of Communication, Cultural Discourse Analysis, Classroom Microaggressions, Gender Studies, and other communication research studies as assigned.● Participated in weekly communication meetings to discuss and modify research topics.● Completed a Collaborative Institutional Training Program: Communication.

• Counseled students and parents on various financial aid programs. • Compiled data for federal, state, and institutional statistical reports. • Developed students' money management skills through financial planning.

• Completed store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results. • Maintained the stability and reputation of the store through customer interaction and enforcement of employee procedures.• Achieved financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, initiating corrective actions.

• Communicated all operating policies and issues at department meetings.• Recruited, selected, trained, assigned, scheduled, coached, and counseled employees.• Analyzed process workflow and implemented changes to improve store performance.

• Supervised daily activity of department operating processes. • Provided training to workers and assisted store manager in scheduling.• Analyzed and identified performance related issues and ensured appropriate steps to prevent loss.

• Developed in-depth knowledge of department operations and security systems. • Investigated frauds and thefts as directed by the Manager. • Implemented safety and security programs for premises.

• Led aircraft maintenance crews and operations.• Ensured proper execution and documentation for all maintenance actions within department. • Inspected employee maintenance actions and cleared aircraft safe for flight.

Master'S Degree, Special Education And Teaching

Master'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Mass Communication/Media Studies