Zachary Nilsen Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Plan, create and present engaging science lessons using multiple presentation softwares, pivoting often based on understandings and misconceptions.- Track and analyze student testing data using Excel, and use student data to individualize instruction, as well as create tiered interventions based on student needs.- Partner with cross-curricular as well as vertical teams to ensure pivots are made to instruction based on student testing data.- Communicate regularly with stakeholders (parents) using multiple modalities, listening to parent goals and concerns, and sharing student progress and school updates.- Serve as the health and wellness lead on the school culture committee, planning activities to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of teachers.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Model the engineering process for middle school students, and expose them to different areas of engineering.- Facilitate student problem solving, including identifying design problems and creating solutions using various tools and materials within a Makerspace.- Maintain a Makerspace that includes 3D printers, Arduino boards, Lego EV3 kits, and Macbooks equipped with iMovie and GarageBand.

Greater St. Louis

- Create and execute project-based lessons for gifted students in grades K-8 in an all-virtual setting.- Conduct and analyze gifted testing, and communicate results of gifted testing with parents.

Greater St. Louis Area

- Collaborate with both grade-level and subject-matter teams on student learning, assessment data and curricular needs.- Craft instruction based on student learning data, adapting to the needs of individual learners.- Implement and enhance a project-based Inquiry curriculum, ensuring students have authentic, hands-on learning experiences.

Greater St. Louis Area

- Responsible for recruiting quality full-time professional and university talent.- Identified and selected top talent through a behavior based phone interview process, which required probing questioning and in-depth analysis of interview transcripts.- Provided cross-functional communication with recruiters and hiring managers based on internal frameworks, ensuring top talent was identified for key roles.- Recommended candidates to recruiters and hiring managers based on the Nestle Leadership Framework. - Implemented CRM, Project Management, and Scheduling tools. Interviewed and observed how teams were using these tools, and made recommendations for optimizations to management.

Raymore, Mo

- Planned instruction and engaging learning activities for eighty-one 5th grade students in a departmentalized setting, focusing on Science, Social Studies and Reading instruction. - Collaborated and communicated with fellow teachers and regularly updated parents on their student's success. - Served on a curriculum planning team, where I developed new and enhanced existing 5th grade curriculum.