EXPERIENCE

 

PAIDEIA SCHOOL-Atlanta, GA

7th and 8th Grade Lit and Writing Homebase teacher, 2016-2021

• Taught intensive essay writing skills to seventh and eighth-grade students

• Instructed students on how to read challenging texts closely and analytically

• Showed students how to translate close reads of texts into cogent written and verbal analyses

• Helped students significantly improve reading, writing, and studying skills

• Created an environment where students love to read, write, and learn

 

PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL—Carlsbad, CA

Grade-Level Dean, 2012-2016

• Led team of 8th-grade teachers in student support and curriculum development to design and implement 21st-century teaching practices.

• Tracked student growth and progress through weekly student support meetings and communicated with parents, teachers, school psychologist, and learning specialist to individualize social and emotional support

• Led parent/teacher meetings to address learning differences and ensure that accommodations were in place—coached teachers on how to implement modifications to support students

• Headed weekly teacher meetings to design interdisciplinary curriculum that reflected 21st century pedagogy including STEAM and design thinking

 

English Teacher, 2010-2016

11th and 12th Grade English

• Launched 11th/12th-grade Rhetoric class, a writing composition course where students used theoretical lenses to analyze text and hone their analytical writing skills in preparation for college

• In addition to literary analysis, coached students to write personal statements and essays for college admissions

• The upper school Rhetoric class became so popular after the first year that it grew from one to four sections due to success of writing curriculum

• Taught my writing curriculum to colleagues in high school English and history departments to standardize writing methodology across disciplines

 

Director of Academic Coaching Center/Learning Specialist, 2010-2014

• Created and directed the Academic Coaching Center to meet the individualized academic needs of over fifty students in the 7th-10th grades

• Created specific action plans and strategies to help meet the individualized learning needs of students

• Worked with students one-on-one to implement learning strategies and maximize academic success

• Facilitated all IEP meetings and disseminated accommodations and strategies to teachers in junior high and high school

 

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL—South San Francisco, CA

Sophomore-Level Head, 2006-2008:  Served as the Curriculum Head for the 10th grade English and history teachers.

• Maintained standards-based benchmarks and assessments throughout sophomore-level English classes

• Conducted regular meetings with English teachers to ensure that our lesson and unit plans were aligned with the California Content Standards

• Co-authored curriculum for high-stakes, interdepartmental English and history project

• High School English Teacher, 2005-2008.  Taught 10th and 11th grade English at the Honors, College Prep, and General levels

 

PHILLIP AND SALA BURTON HIGH SCHOOL—San Francisco, CA

High School English Teacher, 2004-2005.  Taught 10th, 11th, and 12th grade English to at-risk students. Received an academic scholarship to teach English at a low-income, state-sanctioned school in San Francisco; worked with U.C. Berkeley’s Bay Area Writing Project to develop writing curriculum designed to meet the needs of at-risk students; raised test scores for class with the highest concentration of at-risk students

 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

 

• The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning Conference—July 2019. Participant.

• U.C. Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project for Grammar —June 2019. Participant.

• SRI Protocol Training. 2018-2019. Graduate and facilitator at Paideia faculty meetings.

• Learning and the Brain Conference—February 2018. The Science of Innovation. Participant.

• White Privilege Conference—April 2017. Deconstructing the Culture of White Supremacy and Privilege. Participant.

• San Diego County Independent and Private Schools Network—March 2015. “Using Design Thinking in the Classroom.” Presenter.

• Pacific Ridge School—August 2014.  Faculty Orientation. “Teaching the College-Level Essay Step-by-Step.” Presenter.

• Phillips Exeter Academy— June  2014. The Writer’s Workshop. Participant.

• Pacific Ridge School—August  2013. Faculty Orientation. “Cooperative/Competitive Games and Problem-Based Integration.”  Presenter.

 

EDUCATION

Graduated from University of California at Berkeley with highest academic honors

B.A., M.A., California Teaching Credential