Experience

Community Consolidated School District 21

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• • Aug 2007 - Present

• • Aug 2017 - Jul 2020

• • Aug 2007 - Aug 2017

  Core Subject Teacher at a traditional public middle school in the Chicago suburbs; teach reading/writing, science, and/or social studies to 6th graders in a block schedule system



SAE Institute North America

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Adjunct English Instructor

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Teach an evening class in composition, college writing, and rhetoric. Teach an evening class in composition, college writing, and rhetoric.



Midwest Teachers Institute

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Online Adjunct Instructor

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Instructor for an online technology in education class (Advanced Google Tools in Education) Instructor for an online technology in education class (Advanced Google Tools in Education)



Various

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SAT/ACT/TOEFL/College Application Essay Tutor

  • Jun 2008 - Present

  Summer tutoring for Kaplan, C2 Educational Centers, Omniscope Academy, Academic Approach, Varsity Tutors, and Ivy Education - have taught one-on-one, in-home, as well as small class (3 or 4 students at a time), mostly focusing on ACT English, Reading, and Writing. Have also tutored ACT math, ACT science, SAT verbal, vocabulary, TOEFL, college application essays, and high school English. Summer tutoring for Kaplan, C2 Educational Centers, Omniscope Academy, Academic Approach, Varsity Tutors, and Ivy Education - have taught one-on-one, in-home, as well as small class (3 or 4 students at a time), mostly focusing on ACT English, Reading, and Writing. Have also tutored ACT math, ACT science, SAT verbal, vocabulary, TOEFL, college application essays, and high school English.



Illinois Writing Project

• United States
• Professional Training and Coaching

• Professional Development Facilitator

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  Proposed, Developed, Marketed, and co-led a 2.5-day Professional Development workshop for practicing teachers on effective use of technology for writing instruction, based on Illinois Writing Project/National Writing Project core beliefs and best practices; intern for one Summer Leadership Institute workshop (2 weeks); IWP leadership team member and Co-Director for Marketing (since 2017) Proposed, Developed, Marketed, and co-led a 2.5-day Professional Development workshop for practicing teachers on effective use of technology for writing instruction, based on Illinois Writing Project/National Writing Project core beliefs and best practices; intern for one Summer Leadership Institute workshop (2 weeks); IWP leadership team member and Co-Director for Marketing (since 2017)



National Writing Project

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher-Consultant

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2021

  Part of the expansion of the Pathways to Academic Success Program at the University of California - Irvine, led by Carol Booth Olson and the UCI Writing Project through a federal Department of Education Education and Innovation grant - five-year program to expand Cognitive Strategies Instruction to help English Language Learners write more effectively in Chicago-area high schools Part of the expansion of the Pathways to Academic Success Program at the University of California - Irvine, led by Carol Booth Olson and the UCI Writing Project through a federal Department of Education Education and Innovation grant - five-year program to expand Cognitive Strategies Instruction to help English Language Learners write more effectively in Chicago-area high schools



Robert Morris University, Chicago, IL

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Adjunct Instructor

  • Jul 2009 - Jan 2013

  Teach part-time as an adjunct one or two English/Communication courses per year at either Bensenville/O'Hare or Waukegan campuses - have taught English 225 (final writing course in required three-course writing sequence) three times; also taught World Literature Teach part-time as an adjunct one or two English/Communication courses per year at either Bensenville/O'Hare or Waukegan campuses - have taught English 225 (final writing course in required three-course writing sequence) three times; also taught World Literature



Chicago Public Schools

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teacher

  • Aug 2006 - Jun 2007

  5th grade teacher 5th grade teacher



University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant/Composition Instructor

  • Aug 2003 - May 2005

  Taught two composition classes per semester during second and third years as Ph.D. student - taught three different courses (Basic Composition (095), Freshman Composition 1 (101), Freshman Composition 2 (102)) Taught two composition classes per semester during second and third years as Ph.D. student - taught three different courses (Basic Composition (095), Freshman Composition 1 (101), Freshman Composition 2 (102))



John Carroll University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2000 - May 2001

  Tutor in Writing Center; Assistant for two sections of Advanced Composition; Taught one Section of Freshman Composition 2 Tutor in Writing Center; Assistant for two sections of Advanced Composition; Taught one Section of Freshman Composition 2