Experience

Eclipse Academy

• France
• Professional Training and Coaching

• Founder & Head of School

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  Conceived, founded, and lead an online school for gifted and 2e students. Hire, train, and offer ongoing coaching to administrative and teaching staff. Place students with best-fit teachers, based on each student's learning needs, aspirations, and personality. Ensure the quality of custom learning programs, communicating regularly with students, families, teachers, and our Director of Education. Manage the school's business operations. Grow the school through strategic partnerships with referral sources. Show less



Eclipse Coaching & Facilitation

• Founder & Coach

  • Jul 2018 - May 2019

  With a thorough intake process as the foundation, I planned and facilitated daylong and multi-day retreats for working teams. Goals included streamlining team communication, tackling overwhelm, honing agreements around accountability, and deepening professional relationships. With a thorough intake process as the foundation, I planned and facilitated daylong and multi-day retreats for working teams. Goals included streamlining team communication, tackling overwhelm, honing agreements around accountability, and deepening professional relationships.



Fusion Academy

• India
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of School

  • Apr 2013 - Jun 2018

  Launched and led a new 1-to-1 middle-and-high school in Marin, California, and grew the school beyond expectations in a successful five-year tenure as Head of School. Introduced the Marin community to the Fusion Academy model and raised awareness of the program; enrolled students and ensured student success and parent satisfaction; recruited, trained, evaluated and coached teachers and administrators; fostered curriculum development across subjects; managed budgets; and strategized and forecasted growth. Show less



Big History Project

• Curriculum Consultant, Author of UC Doorways Course Application, Course Instructor

  • Mar 2012 - Jul 2014

  Advised Bill Gates’ Big History Project development team on necessary curriculum revisions in order to achieve UC Doorways course approval. Offered strategies to the project team re: widespread course adoption in California. Revised the curriculum, in collaboration with the project team at University of Michigan, intended for students in grades 9 and 10—compressed 20 units into 10, added a historical frame, embedded literacy activities. Edited the Big History Project UC Doorways program-status application. As part of the Big History pilot program, taught the course at School for Independent Learners and Fusion Academy. Show less



School for Independent Learners

• 1-to-1 Classroom Teacher

  • Oct 2007 - Jun 2013

  Customized a unique 1-to-1 course for each student, grades 6 - 12. Taught college-prep, Advanced Placement, and enrichment-and-tutoring programs for all kinds of learners with diverse needs, interests, and goals.

• Director

  • Nov 2008 - Apr 2013

  Redesigned the 1-to-1 school’s organizational structure, academic program, teacher professional development program, and system of school-wide evaluation, reform, and oversight. Formed credit-transfer partnerships with 50+ Bay Area schools. More than doubled enrollment in three years through strategic programming, outreach, and marketing. Recruited, trained, mentored, and coached faculty and staff: hired 18 of the school’s 25 teachers and improved faculty retention +88% in three years. Served as WASC Self-Study Coordinator, facilitating the creation and implementation of new school-wide self-study and a six-year action plan for school improvement. UC Doorways Course Coordinator: shepherded the UC Doorways approval of 100+ new college-prep courses. Curriculum Designer: wrote 15+ course applications approved by UC Doorways and two by the College Board (English language arts, history and social studies, visual and performing arts). Head of Student Guidance: customized a unique program for each student; monitored learning and student wellbeing; crafted and oversaw student interventions; fostered post-graduation planning. Began as a teacher and English Department Chair. Show less

• Department Chair, English & Visual-and-Performing Arts

  • Feb 2008 - Apr 2013

  Established a visual-and-performing arts department; co-designed and implemented a new English curriculum set; established credit-transfer partnership with the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View; monitored learning, teaching, and family communications.



WASC

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Visiting Committee Member

  • Jan 2010 - May 2013

  Visited public and private high schools, seeking re-accreditation, to help evaluate their programs; made recommendations for school improvement in response to observation of instruction, focus groups, and the study of student work. Visited public and private high schools, seeking re-accreditation, to help evaluate their programs; made recommendations for school improvement in response to observation of instruction, focus groups, and the study of student work.



Castle Dance Project

• Co-Founder & Director

  • Aug 2009 - May 2013

  Co-founded the jazz dance heritage-and-education organization. Secured a $10,000 grant from University of Memphis to produce a jazz heritage workshop with Dance Legend Norma Miller and swing musicians for an audience of middle school students. Awarded a Research Fellowship by Herrang Dance Camp; traveled throughout Sweden presenting a collection of illustrated linen postcards featuring swing-era ballrooms. Produced educational programs for the public, free admission, with grants from City College of San Francisco and the Jazz Heritage Center at Yoshi’s Jazz Club. Show less



My Social Justice

• Co-Founder, Director, Curriculum Designer

  • Sep 2009 - Aug 2012

  Co-Founded the blended-learning program with VC partners. Managed operations; led student acquisition; negotiated contracts with partner schools; staffed program; monitored learning, teaching, and progress reporting. Designed an interdisciplinary college-prep course, with a focus on disciplinary literacies, equity, and social entrepreneurship, that asks students to complete social justice projects of their choosing; students access courseware online, yet learn by doing fieldwork. Secured fiscal sponsorship from Palo Solo Project, a 501c3 aid organization. Show less



UCOP

• Workshop Facilitator, University of California Curriculum Integration (UCCI) Institute

  • Nov 2010 - Apr 2012

  Led training sessions, hosted by UC Doorways, for dozens of novice workshop facilitators. Mentored and coached high school teachers and administrators in course design—integrating academic and career-technical coursework—and guided them through the UC Doorways course submission process. Led training sessions, hosted by UC Doorways, for dozens of novice workshop facilitators. Mentored and coached high school teachers and administrators in course design—integrating academic and career-technical coursework—and guided them through the UC Doorways course submission process.



Barron's Educational Series

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manuscript Evaluator

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2012

  Editorially reviewed a CHSPE test-prep workbook, 7th edition, prior to publication of the 8th edition. Editorially reviewed a CHSPE test-prep workbook, 7th edition, prior to publication of the 8th edition.