Jeremy

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Work experience

  • Library Coordinator

    Shanghai American School
    2019.07-Current(6 years)
  • Director of Library Services

    American International School Chennai
    2011.08-2019.07(8 years)
    Current Library Leadership▪European Council of International Schools (ECIS) - Chair of ECIS Library Committee - Conference Organizer (ecislibrary2018.com)▪ Near East South Asia Council of International Schools (NESA) - Library Professional Development Conference Team - School Liaison (peer-elected)Sample of Job Responsibilities: ▪ Teaches lessons and offers in-class support to students and teachers, preschool-grade 8 related to curriculum, digital citizenship, online tools, literacy, and school mission ▪ Head of Department, leads a team of 8 people ▪ Manages a large budget and a 65,000+ volume collection across campus ▪ Actively organizes author visits, book fairs, and library events (i.e. book parties, Dot Day, Book Week)Accomplishments: ▪ Innovatively reconfigured entire collection to be genre and category based, empowering students as readers and dramatically increasing overall annual book circulation by 152% ▪ Leads a popular home language library program, with monthly after school read alouds in multiple languages, parent ordering teams, and a 1900% increase in mother tongue collection offerings ▪ Created entire room to successfully support school literacy program: Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop ▪ Spearheads ongoing library design, using design thinking, with new enhancements every yearAdditional Contributions: ▪ Peer Mediation Advisor, World Scholars Cup Advisor, Book Club ▪ Information Literacy Task Force Leader ▪ Committees and Teams: School Strategic Plan Team, Instructional Leadership Team, Teaching and Learning Committee, Marketing Team, Campus Development Team ▪ Council of International Schools (CIS) Accreditation Team MemberProfessional Development:▪ Making Thinking Visible (Church)▪ Building a Culture of Inclusion (Powell)▪ Adaptive Schools (Garmston)▪ Professional Learning Communities and Critical Friends (Maclean)▪ EAL (Rojas)
  • EAL and World Languages Teacher

    American International School of Budapest
    2005.08-2011.07(6 years)
    ▪ Yearbook, Student Council, Book Club, Knowledge Bowl, Speech and Debate, Dances/Recreation Nights Chaperone, Trip Chaperone, Cooking Club, Mural Painting Club, Environmental Friendly Art Club, Cultural Arts, Co-Director and actor for several school plays, Community service projects participant▪ Central and Eastern European Schools Association (CEESA): AISB School Liaison (director-appointed)▪ Mentor: ECIS International Teaching Certificate▪ Instructor: Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (licensed tutor). Semester graduate course.▪ Library intern (in addition to main teaching assignment) for 2 years
  • World Languages Teacher

    Maine School Administrative District 75
    2001.08-2005.07(4 years)
    ▪ $10,000 National Semiconductor Internet Innovator Award - for creating and leading a multilingual talking picture dictionary project, made by over 1,000 students ▪ Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship to Tokyo and Dazaifu, Japan ▪ National Board Certification (10 years): WLOE Young Adult, obtained 2004 ▪ 2005 Language Teacher of the Year, Maine (nominee also in 2003) ▪ Yearbook, International language trips organizer and leader, Civil Rights Club ▪ American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Maine - Vice President - Conferences Chair
  • World Languages Teacher

    Winthrop Public Schools
    2000.01-2001.07(2 years)
    ▪ Assessment Committee▪ Elementary School Language Club
  • EAL Teacher

    The American Center
    1995.01-1999.01(4 years)

Educational experience

  • Florida State University

    Library and Information Studies; School Library Media m.s
  • University of Southern Maine

    Literacy Education; English as a Second Language c.a.s
  • University of Arizona

    Latin American Studies; Language, Literature, and History m.a
  • University of Maine

    Modern Languages b.a
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