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‣ Lead a Tier 1 early childhood school, LEAP Academy, with 2 school administrators, 38 teachers, and 240 students; managed an annual budget.‣ Achieved a >90% retention rate and a 92% in-seat attendance rate.‣ Implemented a continuous school improvement plan to improve the school culture, implement culturally responsive teaching, and develop teacher resources. ‣ Coached school leaders on effective team management and development and teachers on instruction, classroom management, and data analysis.‣ Drove the development of an Interventionist, Special Education Teacher, and Social Worker.‣ Partner with the Social Worker to create a protocol to connect families experiencing homelessness with wraparound services.‣ Coordinate with Capital Teaching Residency to source 5 teaching residents, providing residents with 1 year of classroom teaching experience under a lead teacher.‣ Oversee a 4-person operations team managing the building facilities, ordering supplies, and providing security.

‣ Created a professional learning community (PLC) designed to detail the development, launch, and implementation of intervention programs at their schools to enhance teaching practices and create positive learning environments.‣ Coach 8 intervention teachers across 6 KIPP early childhood schools on socio-emotional learning, data interventions, and student behavior tracking to provide support across the tiered instruction model.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

‣ Develop and execute family engagement strategies, utilizing communication platforms, newsletters, and email to drive daily interaction and promote academic, community, and resource events.‣ Leverage community relations strategies and social media marketing on Instagram to highlight school activities and student accomplishments and aid in annual student recruitment.‣ Established 4 strategic partnerships with youth development organizations to provide students with exposure and access to healthy eating, exercise, and arts and entertainment education.

‣ Planned and led bimonthly sessions for 6 – 8 kindergarten through 6th-grade teachers to foster strong school relationship development, advocating for school resources, implementing management systems, and classroom management.‣ Mentored educators, aiding in content development, understanding of teaching content, and establishing a teaching pedagogy.‣ Helped teachers transition theory into practice and develop de-escalation techniques for students across grade levels.‣ Modeled exemplar lessons and best practices for teachers.

‣ Improved Maryland State Assessment data by training teachers to employ various teaching methods, learning style assessments, and literacy models to drive student engagement and maximize individual learning styles to achieve annual growth. ‣ Launched a data cohort, hosting monthly meetings to teach teachers how to analyze student data to inform strategy development and instruction techniques.‣ Support and guide 30+ pre-K through 8th-grade instructional staff by planning and facilitating weekly school-based professional development sessions.‣ Coached 100+ 4th-grade math teachers on curriculum implementation and improving data utilization.‣ Directed data cycles utilizing the district’s 6-week benchmark assessments; identified below-grade level skills and provided recommendations for improvement.‣ Collaborated with administration and school leadership to drive compliance with policies, procedures, and requirements.‣ Partnered with the Principal to monitor, document, and store the school’s key performance indicators (KPIs).‣ Assisted in planning and conducting academic and student support programs and activities.‣ Conducted teacher observations, assessing teacher performance, identifying areas of improvement, and promoting an intentional, reflective teaching practice.

‣ Managed a team of 12 – 15 grade-level and specialist teachers to develop and implement curriculum and lesson plans to reteach skills and learning concepts below benchmarks.‣ Engaged the families of 100+ students weekly in the reeducation process by communicating program status and providing additional practice exercises, questions, books, and parent education to assist students in developing literacy and math skills.‣ Leveraged benchmark assessments to establish baselines and implemented data and assessment tracking tools to monitor student growth and program efficacy.

Master Of Education - Med, Elementary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Elementary Education And Teaching