Envisioning, designing, and implementing scholar-centered pedagogy through high-quality curriculum, professional learning, and innovative teaching and learning models. Highlights include: Odell Education, Texas High School Literacy Program: Created an implementation guide and supporting materials to provide all Texas secondary schools with guidance on professional learning that can support all stakeholders with the implementation of the Odell Texas High School English Language Arts… Show more Envisioning, designing, and implementing scholar-centered pedagogy through high-quality curriculum, professional learning, and innovative teaching and learning models. Highlights include: Odell Education, Texas High School Literacy Program: Created an implementation guide and supporting materials to provide all Texas secondary schools with guidance on professional learning that can support all stakeholders with the implementation of the Odell Texas High School English Language Arts Curriculum Revised rigorous, standards-based, culturally relevant English Language Arts units for the Texas Education Agency New Teacher Center: Reviewed the NTC instructional coach training and crafted a comprehensive feedback report on how to revise the structure, content, and process in order to better leverage teacher instruction to create equitable learning outcomes reDesign:Worked with the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Personalized Learning to support several schools in using the Profile of a South Carolina Graduate competencies to design lessons and assessments by facilitating virtual leadership training and coaching, professional development workshops, and individual teacher coaching Show less

Proven leader in developing networks and partnerships with a range of stakeholders from teachers to large districts and state departments of education. Highlights include: Successfully developed and led a four-year, multi-school network program focused on building teacher instructional capacity in performance-based assessment design and implementation to increase college and career readiness skillsCollaborated effectively with several clients at the New York City Department of… Show more Proven leader in developing networks and partnerships with a range of stakeholders from teachers to large districts and state departments of education. Highlights include: Successfully developed and led a four-year, multi-school network program focused on building teacher instructional capacity in performance-based assessment design and implementation to increase college and career readiness skillsCollaborated effectively with several clients at the New York City Department of Education to design iterative scopes of work that addressed the needs of all stakeholders regarding multi-year projects that built instructional capacity in targeted areas across a network of schools Effectively coached at least 45 teachers annually in a variety of school contexts including transfer schools that serve over-aged, under-credited students, 9-14 secondary schools that integrate career-technical education within a postsecondary readiness program, and middle schoolsConceptualized, prepared, and implemented network-based professional development workshops aligned to client goals and differentiated to support the individual school communities with meeting the goalsCompetently shifted teacher practice and impacted student learning through a school-embedded coaching model that included individual goal-setting, aligned to the individual teacher and student needs, in-the-moment feedback and problem solving, modeling of effective instructional practices, and consistent reflection to build pedagogical capacity Designed and facilitated a myriad of school-based professional development workshops to address specific instructional goals targeting discrete instructional practices, literacy practices, and assessment Show less

Led writing teams in the development of the NY Engage 9–12 ELA Common Core Curriculum for the NY State Department of EducationCollaborated with New York State clients to design and deliver a high-stakes education project aligned to the Common Core Learning StandardsCoached and leveraged the skills of writers as they worked under tight and shifting deadlines in order to deliver an on-time and high-quality curriculum by providing strategic and specific feedback Conceived an original… Show more Led writing teams in the development of the NY Engage 9–12 ELA Common Core Curriculum for the NY State Department of EducationCollaborated with New York State clients to design and deliver a high-stakes education project aligned to the Common Core Learning StandardsCoached and leveraged the skills of writers as they worked under tight and shifting deadlines in order to deliver an on-time and high-quality curriculum by providing strategic and specific feedback Conceived an original and rigorous curriculum utilizing culturally relevant texts Show less

Designed and taught various English Language Arts curricula in a variety of Title 1 school contexts Applied literacy-based instructional practices in order to improve close reading, speaking, and writing skills of all students