Experienced International, Innovative Leader, Collaborator, and Educator with Master’s Degrees in Educational Leadership and Special Education coupled with 20+ years’ transforming school cultures, and implementing effective programs.Transformational Leader – Guided and mentored faculty and staff of 120+ to increase student success and performance in each role held. Adopted uniform prioritized standards at each grade level and within each discipline.Leverage Resources / Strategic Collaborations – Increased parent and community involvement and engagement, resulting in $650K in technology donations and $9M in playground redesign and rebuild. Managed annual budgets exceeding $5.5M.Empower Teachers – Engaged faculty and staff in shared decision-making through the Instructional Leadership Teams and Teacher-Leadership. Guided implementation of Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices and Grading.

Developed and implemented school-wide and grade-level systems supporting academic achievement and social-emotional growth such as common unit planning utilizing Understanding by Design (UbDs), advisory program, and school-wide assessment measures.Promoted and facilitated activities, events and data collection and analysis to inform and drive instruction and engagement to continuously improve student performance, well-being, and belonging.Led the school community through transition from remote learning, into hybrid, and back to in-person education.Ensured and expanded full implementation of array of academic and social-emotional supports and services for students to meet a variety of growth and developmental needs and abilities.Recruited, evaluated, and retained high-quality international educators and staff.

Ensured standards-based instruction is implemented across high school grade levels and content areas while meeting the unique needs of students who have experienced struggle and challenge in traditional school settings.Supported and guided students and their families as they work to overcome profound and life altering circumstances beyond the school.Led successful WASC review with a 4-year re-accreditation awarded.Guided, developed, and presented US Dept of Civil Rights CTE Program Review.Engaged and promoted change process to further the school’s common vision and goals.

• Responsible for creating and maintaining a safe and effective academic social-emotional environment for 6th, 7th and 8th grade students.• Hire, evaluate, and promote the development of highly qualified teachers and staff.• Build and nurture school-level leadership comprising of faculty, staff, students, and community members.• Ensures that Common Core State Standards-based instruction is implemented across grade levels and content areas.• Engages and promotes the change process to further the school’s common vision and goals.• Represents the school in a positive and constructive manner while promoting student achievement and accepting responsibility for shortcomings.• Establishes and enforces standard school operating procedures and routines.• Ensures that the school maintains full compliance with federal, state, and district requirements.• Collaborates with outside agencies, institutions, and groups to ensure school-wide improvement and student achievement is realized.• Develops, leads and participates in personal professional development opportunities to enhance professionalism and collegiality.• Establishes and maintains an atmosphere of clear, visible, and open communication between all school staff, students, parents, and community members.• Manages, allocates and accountable for multi-million dollar annual operating budgets.

• Principal of a traditional Grades 6th-8th middle school.• Developed, led and participated in professional development opportunities to enhance professionalism and collegiality.• Established and maintained an atmosphere of clear, visible, and open communication between all school staff, students, parents, and community members.• Managed, allocated and accountable for annual operating budgets.

• Coached, mentored, and assisted principals from an instruction, school culture and school operations perspective through visiting schools, meeting with teachers, and attending leadership team meetings.• Worked collaboratively with local district leadership to leverage influence in supervision and evaluation of the principals.• Formalized and executed customized professional development training specific to clientele and worked closely with district officials to create plans and set measurable goals for program implementation.• Supported and monitored professional development plans of teachers.• Developed, conducted and participated in local, national and international achievement conferences.

• Responsible for creating and maintaining a safe and effective academic environment for pre-school through twelfth grade students.• Hired, evaluated, and promoted the development of highly qualified teachers.• Built and nurtured school-level leadership comprising of faculty, staff, students, and community members.• Ensured that standards-based instruction was implemented across grade levels and content areas.• Promoted and facilitated school-wide data collection and analysis to inform and drive instruction to continuously improve student performance.• Engaged and promoted the change process to further the school’s common vision and goals.