Stefanie Rivera Email & Phone Number

Foster an environment that celebrates the school community and is welcoming to all people.Build, support, and improve the school’s services through work with admissions, development, teaching faculty, student support services, parents and families, the staff and leadership, alumni, and athletics.Engage all constituencies (employees, students, families, and alumni).Organize and coordinate community events in collaboration with senior leadership.Working towards creating a system for periodic evaluation of DEIB efforts.Working to increase the school’s visibility as a leader in DEIB efforts.Collaborate with Division Heads on issues of student engagement and belonging.

Taught 9th-12th grade Drama for eleven years including Improvisation, Advanced Acting Techniques, and Comedy Sketch Writing and Performance.Taught 11-12th grade Public Speaking for two years. Director of the Upper School Spring Play for eleven years.Director of the Upper School January Short Term Theatre Intensive for two years.Assisted with the Upper School Fall Musical for 11 years.

Team Leader-Developing Standards-Based Teaching, Learning and Grading.Team Leader-Portrait of a Graduate development.Developed and Implemented the Master Class Schedule.Created Master Schedules for all Upper School Students.Empowered teachers through regular teacher evaluation.Researched, developed and implemented Advisory program.Recruited and hired qualified employees.Planned and executed all-school events.Managed all disciplinary incidents.Faculty Sponsor of Student-Government.Assisted with development of school policies.

Taught 7th grade, 8th grade, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior English for three years.Taught 9th grade Design, Discover, Dig Deep for two years.Faculty Co-Sponsor of Yearbook for three years.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Tenured teacher.Taught Drama for seven years. Created and ran the Drama Program, including producing two major productions per year.Taught Freshmen, Sophomore and Senior Honors English. Member of Instructional Leadership Team.Team-Leader of Freshmen English Common Core development team.Trained in AVID. Taught and coordinated the AVID program for two years.

Worked as professional actor for five years.

Master Of Arts Teaching (Mat), Secondary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba With Distinction, Theatre/Theater

Junior Year Abroad, Drama And Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General