teacher at leaders high school resume example

Curriculum Development:

• taught a wide variety of STEM topics and designed culturally responsive curriculum tailored to student needs
• topics include: biology (climate change, evolution and natural selection, biochemistry, anatomy, disease and epidemiology in the context of diabetes, HIV and COVID-19, neuroscience), chemistry (atoms, elements, molecules, reactions, food chemistry, ocean acidification), physics (conceptual and mathematical), independent experimental research as a culminating science graduation requirement, health (healthy relationships, mental health and healthy coping mechanisms, sexual health, drug use under a harm reduction model, with a focus on how drugs impact the development of the teenage brain), LGBTQ history
• Used EL model for learning and NYC Consortium Performance Based assessment tasks to facilitate deep learning of science skills and content of interest to students
• Designed rigorous lessons during remote learning that led to high classroom participation and success by.....(something about technology??)

Special Education:

• Collaborated with co-teachers to design and differentiate curriculum to support all learners
• took equal roles in the ICT classroom to create learning opportunities for all learners
• Coordinated the updating of students' Individualized Education Plans by conducting student assessments, engaging with families and teachers and service providers to meet and decide on learning goals and pathways to support students with disabilities in being empowered and aware of how to advocate for the conditions they need to access their learning (during high school and once they graduate)

Community Outreach and support:

• COVID stuff?
• advised two groups of 18 students through their four years of high school by supporting socio-emotional health and academic support
• designed specific curriculum tailored for summer school and worked with students in groups and one on one in order to regain credits
• participated in restorative approaches to harm in our school community by involving all stakeholders in conversations in order to repair harm

LGBTQ Advisor

• advisor for school LGBTQ safe space called "the Alliance" through entirety of this career
• created safe space for students of LGBTQ experience in all of the schools of the building
• served as a resource for members of the school community to refer students to me
• facilitating sharing circles to discuss issues coming up in our school community, worked with students to design lessons, events, field trips and action steps to address these issues
• Designed sequences of lessons for Crews to do (advisory groups) to understand how to be good allies to those in the LGBTQ community
• partnered with Teaching Artists at the Leslie-Lohman Museum to learn about LGBTQ history thorugh the lens of art
• brought groups of students to DOE LGBTQ summits

Teacher Leadership:

• designed and led professional development to help staff to grow in terms of being able to support our LGBTQ students and community
• designed and led professional development for staff around matters of special education co-teaching models, universal design for learning (UDL),
• worked with a group of 5 other teacher leaders from Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound schools throughout the 5 boroughs to create challenging and rigorous climate change curriculum
• participated on school Leadership team as science team representative
• collaborated with co-workers in grade teams and department teams to tackle issues of inequity, behavior, student outcomes, and to share best practices and test out new practices in a team