Charisse Smith Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Trenton, New Jersey, United States

New Jersey, United States

Providing professional development to businesses and educational organizations. Assisting organizations motivate and inspire learners of all ages.

Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Support and initiate actions that foster diversity and inclusivity within the school community. Work with school president, principal, and other teaching faculty to create and implement a diversity and inclusion plan. Monitor the growth of diversity in student/family and faculty recruitment.

Trenton, New Jersey

Provide Leadership in the Field of AgingExpand Public Awareness of Aging Issues

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

• Ensure the organization’s activities are compliant and in the furtherance of its mission• Lead, manage, and develop the organization’s members and organizational culture• Develop, implement, monitor, and assess the organization’s programs, including their impact• Develop, implement, and assess sound and compliant financial management practices within the organization• Collaborate with members and district employees to help lead the organization’s planning process• Ensure the effective external and internal communications about the organization and its mission, priorities, importance, programs, and activities• Champion the organization and its mission to internal and external stakeholders

• Created and implemented an instructional coaching model for 3 Instructional Coaches to foster reflective growth for classroom teachers and colleagues.• Increase the instructional capacity of 31 teachers by creating and instituting 4 Coaching Cafes. • Created, led and directed stakeholder protocol teams to complete yearly Title I school-wide grant writing and planning.• Provide ongoing Literacy, Math, and STEM professional development opportunities for administrative and teaching staff, including workshops on PARCC assessments, Executive Function, REAL Men Read, Progressions in K-5 Mathematics, Hamilton Township district Needs Assessment, and data benchmarking data software management system.• Conduct and lead data meetings to identify achievement skill gaps using I-Ready and Linkit database systems.• Created and coordinated multiple parental involvement activities and professional development workshops for 10 district and 6 Title I schools.

Summer Enrichment Program

• Managed the implementation for program and instructional initiatives including curriculum, instructional methods and practices, and classroom and behavior management• Conducted staff interviews for the S.T.E.M. programming• Established diagnostic and on-going formal assessment data and supporting staff in adjusting instruction based on data analysis• Reviewed lesson plans and other instructional support tools, providing timely feedback and creating "best practices" instructional strategies for staff• Managed and supported over 20 staff members in the implementation of data-driven and differentiated instructional practices in both literacy and mathematics• Conducted classroom observations to ensure proper implementation of curriculum, instructional practices, and classroom/behavior management using the Danielson Framework• Communicated and collaborated effectively with students, families, district staff, and host school staff

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Provide mentors opportunities to read to at-risk children within schools to encourage and improve literacy skills and to demonstrate the importance of student achievement and community partnerships.Encourage community STEM partnerships through literacy initiatives.

Hamilton, New Jersey

Ewing, New Jersey

• Established the management system for the center’s multiple sites• Developed and built teacher competencies in early childhood and student enrichment• Hired, trained, and coached the teaching team in best practice service delivery• Demonstrated the ability to engage effectively with infants, young children, and their families• Reviewed and assessed overall center’s capacity and efficiency, including: structure, operations, and transportation• Ensured the employment of sound fiscal controls

Piscataway, New Jersey

• Supervised and managed a collaborative team of 17 mental health specialists transitional residence • Planned, implemented and evaluated the milieu’s programs, services, and activities • Provided supervisory oversight, technical guidance and advice to staff• Coordinated the provision of building and food services • Maintained, monitored and arranged for appropriate health and safety inspections of facility and prepared facility and program for State certification and arranged necessary maintenance and repairs.• Hired, trained, assigned, reviewed, and evaluated milieu staff.

Supervisor Certification Program-Completed, Education, Leadership & Continuing Studies

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Education-Professional Studies

Masters Of Education, Reading And Curriculum Instruction

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Track & Field