Susan Ritter Email & Phone Number

• Update and implement a five-year district-wide Literacy Action Plan which transitions all grades (K-8) to a Reading and Writing Workshop model and integrates elements such as Literature Circles and independent reading into high school classes. Considered staff development, consultant-based and in-house coaching, instructional leadership, resources, and curriculum revision.• Supervise all aspects (planning, personnel, curriculum, logistics) of the district-wide initiative to integrate (TCRWP) Workshop into K-8 classrooms; coordinate Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Assessments and multi-sensory word work program.• Lead K-5 elementary content committees; create standards-based report cards; design assessment rubrics to correlate with report cards; create and implement benchmark assessments.• Coordinate and design professional development (integrating non-fiction; understanding questioning; item analysis; close reading practices; using text-based evidence; book discussions; integration of technology; visiting speakers; site visits) to build teacher capacity, using the lens of NJSLS and PARCC testing.• Employ Danielson Model: utilize and implement the evaluation model with teachers; ascertain that they understand performance measures; observe teachers and conduct reflective post-conferences challenging teachers to both question practices and realize improved instruction.• Analyze AP data and PARCC evidence tables to inform curriculum and instruction.• Manage SGOs: help teachers to develop, monitor, and implement.• Serve on district-wide committees: Personalized Learning; RTI; Middle School honors criteria; Full-day Kindergarten; Professional Development School partnership.• Manage curriculum revision/design; hiring and associated duties.• Presentations: "To Make a Prairie: Creating a Climate of Growth,” CEL, NCTE, Atlanta, scheduled for November 2016; "Intentional Literacy Leadership.” Regional CEL, NCTE, October 2015.

• Supervised 6th-12th grade humanities teachers.• Coached and supported teachers to facilitate meaningful technology integration, twenty-first century skills, innovative pedagogy, and interdisciplinary unit planning.• Researched, evaluated, and revised sheltered and mainstream program for international students with limited English proficiency.• Initiated and managed curricular development including “Global Citizenship” elective.• Screened resumes and interviewed candidates for teaching positions. • Mediated/resolved parent, student, and faculty differences.

Edison, New Jersey

• Designed global scholars academy garnering endorsement on high school diploma. • Created capstone experiences for fifth and eighth grades.• Chaired committees to design and implement global programs including speaker series, an Upper School student symposium (March 2013), and student film festival.• Implemented K-12 professional development initiative of project-based learning.• Formed and lead a cross-curricular advisory board of PreK-12th grade teachers to infuse a global focus into programming, curricula, and extra-curricular activities.• Worked with Sustainability Coordinator to create cross-discipline global projects.• Administered national global competency assessment to establish baseline data to measure future program progress.• Created and instructed personalized learning/capstone course to senior students resulting in a thesis, presentation to community, and defense to faculty panel.• Presentation: "Creating a Global Education Program with Limited Resources: One School’s Story,” Global Educators Benchmarking Group (GEBG) Annual Conference, Cape Henry Collegiate School, April 2014.•Assisted in grant writing: "Innovation in Civics Education,” The Stanton Foundation, 2013, 2014. $10,000 and Technology for Global Learning Center, Edward E. Ford Foundation, 2014. $50,000; 3-D Printer; Film Library and Video Cameras, W-H Parents Association, 2012, 2013.

Edison, New Jersey

• Instructed grade 9 English classes and grade 12 elective courses; designed writing-intensive, thematic, skills-focused, and literature-based instructional units.• Co-chaired committee to integrate twenty-first century skills throughout instruction.• Served on committee to research and adopt current rotating drop-block schedule.• Participated in the NJAIS accreditation process and review.•Delivered presentation to Board of Trustees about Upper School Writing Program and development of e-portfolio.•Lead NJAIS workshop entitled, "Using Technology to Navigate the Twenty-First Century English Classroom," Ranney School, Fall 2012.

Lincoln, Nebraska Area

Instructed college students in "Introduction to Education" and "Instructional Technology" classes; developed curricula using Moodle, Blackboard, and other course management systems.

Bridgewater, Nj

• Instructed grades 9-12 English classes (inclusion, college-prep, honors, AP, literacy support). • Responsible for designing and implementing writing-intensive, thematic, skills-focused, and literature-based instructional units. • Instructed AP Language and Composition class with a 100% passing rate on College Board exam (scores 3-5); 90% earn qualified or highly qualified marks (scores 4-5). • Instructed twelfth grade Concurrent Enrollment (CEP) class, a course which earned the state’s Best Practices award. • Worked as an adjunct instructor at Raritan Valley Community College for two years.• Acted as mentor teacher to first-year, alternate-route, and student teachers.• Screened resumes and interviewed candidates for teaching positions.• Selected students for honors program as part of teacher committee.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English