-Work in a leadership role to provide remediation services to at-risk students.-Train teachers on MTSS and SST intervention programs.-Analyze complex student data to determine mass schedule changes and perform needs assessment.

Poised to return to educational leadership positions after taking downtime to take care of family interests.• Enriched Burnt Children Summer Campers’ experience in Shreveport, LA by designing and presenting International Education Awareness models.• Fostered women empowerment with improved leadership and management skills while a member of a Lean-In Team through reading extensively, writing reflections on discussion boards, and attending monthly meetings.

Supported math grade level teams, including support staff and teachers, by planning, conducting, and documenting weekly math meetings; managing, tracking, supporting, and assisting teachers’ on their instructional pace; overseeing lesson plan implementation; and performing data analysis on district assessments as a member of the school leadership team while supporting the principal to provide instructional and organizational leadership resulting in the best possible teaching and learning atmosphere.Positioned department for success by creating a common vision for improvement and building an environment which fostered collaboration and continuous improvement. Achieved school vision and objectives by managing diverse opinions, ideologies, and expertise.Enabled implementation of a district-wide uniform math curriculum by creating common units and assessments via participating in vertical planning with other district teachers based on collecting student achievement data and ensuring grade-level math teams used them. Provided reinforcement and enrichment by developing team time lessons in math for the entire grade, now called Building Blocks (BDB).Increased math team teachers’ skills by sharing knowledge gained while attending professional conferences and development workshops during curriculum and departmental meetings; sharing lessons; demonstrating use of manipulatives. Emphasized daily use of and mentored teachers on Quality Plus Teaching Strategies. Built community relations, increased parental involvement, and promoted math education.• Enabled the school to meet national Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) target with a 66.7% Criterion-Reference Competency Test (CRCT) passing rate during entire 4-year tenure in position by establishing Title I implementation strategies.

AREAS OF INTERACTION (AOI) LEADER FOR THE IB: •Fostered IB curriculum by coordinating, facilitating, and delivering professional learning workshops to teachers and staff, including an after school class on Approaches to Learning. •Increased faculty members’ skills by sharing knowledge gained while attending IB Conferences and obtaining IB Level III certification.•Created IB units, common assessments, and grade-level documents for IB authorization by representing and advocating for the math team and collaborating with other cluster math teachers. •Prepared and implemented a technology-based IB curriculum and interdisciplinary math for grade level teachers.Led school to achieve IB authorization in 2008 with a program that continues to flourish, one of only approximately 500 middle schools in the US to follow the IB program, by successfully promoting the IB mission to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.TEAM LEADER: •Built strong grade level team by coordinating and leading smoothly functioning teams; writing and applying for student Response To Intervention (RTI) processing; planning and making arrangements for parent-teacher conferences; and determining and setting up discipline protocols, policies, routine schedules, events, and activities. •Enabled students to succeed by continually recording and monitoring student progress via coordinating meetings, letters, memos, email, and phone call conferences among team teachers and parents. •Enhanced students’ learning with horizontal and vertical team planning by making critical decisions for the team.GRANT WRITER:•Wrote several grants for the school, successfully earning a $5000 school improvement program grant from Lowe’s, by leading the grant committee team, attending grant writing conferences, and achieving certification in grant writing from Grant Training Center (GTC).

Strengthened awareness of the Fulbright network by engaging in transatlantic educational dialog and policy exchange through visiting and living in Germany for an intensive, 2 week program, including meetings, workshops, lectures, daily visits to various German schools, interactions and meetings with school officials and German Education Department officials, and immersion in the German culture. Promoted innovative teaching strategies and competition with international learning standards by modeling German educational best practices and pedagogies in US schools.• Selected as one of 15 participants from 100’s of bright applicants for the highly prestigious program based on superior achievements.• Improved teaching methods at Summerour Middle School based on knowledge gained through experimenting with the techniques in the classroom, including introducing a new methodology to teach the Pythagorean Theorem

Increased 80 students’ in Grades 1 to 12 from affluent backgrounds math skills proficiency, enabling them to improve their test and SAT scores and achieve acceptance in their top 10 colleges by providing them individual tutoring, challenging their intellect with high-ordered thinking questions, creating assessments to determine their math aptitude, and teaching them math materials 2 to 3 levels above their grade level.• Enabled students to achieve academic success and increased college entrance ratio 95% by driving a practical, student-centered approach to mathematics education with independent learning ability through the acquisition of new study-skills strategies

Supported and promoted organization’s world-wide activities and mission by coordinating fund-raising, exhibitions, national and international film screenings, and press archives. Met challenging deadlines and other requirements by providing key logistical and data-related assistance.• Improved fund-raising collections 80% for kids’ photographic prints by helping to sell KWC products.• Promoted the organization’s mission and programs across the globe by assisting in national and international film screening projects.