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PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELOR
Experience
Professional School Counselor
January 2007 to Current
Hoffman Boston Elementary, Arlington Public School APS - Virginia
  • Provides academic and social support and career awareness to Montessori, Pre-K and graded elementary students that represent a wide range of cultural differences and backgrounds.
  • Sets high academic standards and pushes each child to realize his or her full potential.
  • Chairperson, Intervention Assistance Team (IAT): Works with parents, teachers, and specialists to select the most effective interventions for the students, who do not adapt easily to a regular classroom setting.
  • Uses collected baseline and post-intervention data, to measure specific interventions' success and its ability to address the students' needs without formalized evaluations or Special Education services.
  • In the last three years, this process has led to a 10% decrease in Student Study referrals and a 20% increase in IAT dismissals.
  • Instructional Leadership Team Member: Collaboratively examines and addresses 90 Day Plan, student watch lists, VDOE quarterly reports and other data pertinent to school improvement.
  • Establishes intervention plans and school reform strategies based on information gathered through a wide variety of formal and informal assessment outcomes.
  • Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support Team Member (PBIS): Attends PBIS trainings and meetings to collaboratively examine and address school wide behavioral data.
  • Manages school wide action plan based on national PBIS research and the School Wide Information System (SWIS) data.
  • Attendance Task Force Team Member: Schedules and meets monthly to address individual student attendance concerns.
  • Works with parents to create most effective attendance improvement plan.
  • Follows up with necessary steps to assist students and families with recurrent absenteeism.
  • Cultural Competence Initiative Facilitator: Planned and facilitated cultural competence training to APS colleagues in effort to broaden their attitudes, skills and behaviors, enabling them to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
  • Created an open and safe environment that moved the group toward purposeful sessions and completion of the cultural competence training.
  • Community Based Programs: Builds relationships with community members, sponsor and mentorship roles, scheduled and coordinated healthcare visits with Department of Human Services (H1N1 vaccinations) and Dental Mobile.
  • Also assists in Montessori, Virginia Preschool Initiative and new parent/student orientation and school visits.
  • Co-developed boys' mentor program in partnership with Mt.
  • Olive Baptist Church in effort to encourage character building and provide support system and resources for students.
  • State Testing Coordinator: Adhered to state-mandated procedures and timeline by training teachers and proctors, scheduling and administering practice tests and ensuring accommodations were in place for special education and second-language learners.
  • Prior to testing, assured valid participation in test taking and correct accreditation-affecting scoring by detailed attention to coding.
Teacher
January 2004 to January 2007
Wakefield High School, Arlington Public Schools APS - Virginia
  • Taught 9th grade English to children who present a broad range of learning styles and levels, from advanced placement to special education.
  • Developed and delivered lessons that ensure students' learning at appropriate levels and reflect the best sequencing of instruction based on curricular objectives.
  • Especially adroit at recognizing the needs, concerns, abilities and interests of each student and delivering the needed instruction or recommending resources.
  • Joined staff members in innovative planning that support the school-wide initiative for Advanced Placement: planned and executed staff development activity that supplied staff with logistics of Wakefield's Advanced Placement Network; collaboratively developed Wakefield's Summer Bridge Advanced Placement Network lesson on College Planning; served as a member of Wakefield's Advanced Placement Network providing staff, parent and student support for Advanced Placement preparation and participation.
  • As team leader, collaborated with committed, like-minded educators to provide rigorous interdisciplinary learning opportunities and rich experiences through field trips and in-house activities.
  • Built a girls' mentoring group to support social, emotional and academic decision-making.
  • This project is designed to reduce aggressive behaviors and increase self-awareness and self-esteem.
Instructional Lead Teacher
January 2000 to January 2004
Virginia
  • Taught English and social studies, 9th through 12th grade classes, to students who faced the challenges of inordinate gaps in their education and social stress.
  • Fostered a collegial climate in which human relationships and intellectual endeavors are valued.
  • Have continued mentoring relationships with several students by supporting their education, parenting and employment efforts as adults.
  • Accomplished learning objectives by using varied instructional techniques and materials, including methods that encouraged students to employ higher-order critical thinking skills.
  • Demonstrated fairness and consistency when handling student discipline and coaching for improvement.
  • Creatively planned lessons and implemented curriculum that resulted in measurable and observable performance.
  • This methodology led to improved students' level of competency and comprehension, which increased their Standards of Learning writing scores by 80%.
  • As lead teacher, worked with staff members on interdisciplinary projects, field trips and in-house activities that promoted academic and social progression leading to overall higher grade point averages.
  • Met regularly with teaching staff to acquire data on core curriculum areas, short-term and long-term planning goals, and to reflect on instruction.
Teacher
January 1994 to January 2000
Benjamin Stoddert Middle School, Prince George's County Public Schools - Maryland
  • Taught language arts to 6th and 7th grade classes across a spectrum of assessed performance levels, including Talented and Gifted (TAG) and special education.
  • Honed classroom skills at the beginning of career by teaching five 7th grade classes that focused on reading through intensively covering grammar and literature.
  • Demonstrated the ability to establish and maintain effective team and individual relationships with students, parents, supervisors and colleagues.
  • Exceeded all teaching objectives and was rewarded with increasing leadership responsibility.
  • Language Arts Department Chairperson: Appointed liaison among the principal, language arts teachers and supervisors.
  • Disbursed and tracked materials and resources to special education and language arts departments.
  • Integrated language arts instruction into the broader school curricula, including emphasis on special education needs.
  • Team Leader: Coordinated and planned programs and activities with 6th grade teachers and principal, including learning strategies and testing approaches.
  • Balanced the role of standardized testing with the need to provide creative learning experiences for all students.
  • Defined and actively participated in process improvement activities.
  • Worked cooperatively as an effective leader and team member to achieve school goals and objectives.
  • Multidisciplinary and School Instructional Teams Member: Served as the regular education teacher on these two interrelated, dependent teams.
  • Reviewed existing data and assisted in determining the need for student assessment, e.g., psychological, speech and language and education level testing.
  • Analyzed the results of assessments and assisted in identifying an existing disability that required special education services.
  • Assisted in the development of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or Individualized Transition Plan (ITP).
  • Coordinated monthly meetings, including setting agendas, to focus on the needs of selected students.
  • Addressed the students' performance and attendance issues and evaluated the level of intervention required.
Education and Training
M.Ed : Education LeadershipGeorge Mason University - Fairfax, VAEducation Leadership
M.EdThe George Washington University - Washington DC
BA : English & Mass Communications, November 2015Virginia State University George Washington University - Petersburg, VAEnglish & Mass Communications Parents and Teachers Supporting Students Training, *The School Site Practicum Student Supervisor, 2012 - 2016 *Social Skills Training for Autistic Students,
2013Spanish For Educators, Arlington Public School
2012Acting Summer School Principal, Abingdon Elementary School
2012Marymount University SchoolSite Practicum Student Supervisor, *Northern Virginia School Counseling Leadership Team Site Supervisor Training,
2010Acting Summer School Principal, Hoffman Boston Elementary School
Interests
Postgraduate Professional License, Commonwealth of Virginia, since 2000 *Virginia Support for School Improvement Leadership Training, 2009-2010 *Teacher Expectations & Student Achievement (TESA) trained, since 2002 *American School Counselor Association, since 1999 *National Teachers' Association, since 1994
Skills
academic, APS, Arts, coaching, Counseling, critical thinking, decision-making, English, focus, instruction, Leadership, Team Leader, logistics, materials, meetings, mentor, mentoring, Works, Network, process improvement, coding, reading, research, scheduling, speech, staff development, Supervisor, teacher, teaching
Additional Information
  • Postgraduate Professional License, Commonwealth of Virginia, since 2000 *Virginia Support for School Improvement Leadership Training, 2009-2010 *Teacher Expectations & Student Achievement (TESA) trained, since 2002 *American School Counselor Association, since 1999 *National Teachers' Association, since 1994
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Hoffman Boston Elementary, Arlington Public School APS
  • Wakefield High School, Arlington Public Schools APS
  • Benjamin Stoddert Middle School, Prince George's County Public Schools

School Attended

  • George Mason University
  • The George Washington University
  • Virginia State University George Washington University
  • Spanish For Educators, Arlington Public School
  • Acting Summer School Principal, Abingdon Elementary School
  • Marymount University School
  • Acting Summer School Principal, Hoffman Boston Elementary School

Job Titles Held:

  • Professional School Counselor
  • Teacher
  • Instructional Lead Teacher

Degrees

  • M.Ed : Education Leadership
    M.Ed
    BA : English & Mass Communications , November 2015
    2013
    2012
    2012
    2010

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