Experience

The Early Light Academy at Daybreak

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

• Sixth Grade Teacher

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Plan lessons Teach Math and Language Arts Teach Writing to 4 different classes in 6th grade. Plan lessons Teach Math and Language Arts Teach Writing to 4 different classes in 6th grade.



Entheos Academy

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer School Reading Specialist

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2022

  Organized and planned summer school reading program forstudents in all grades K-8. Managed the grouping of studentsaccording to reading abilities, splits into small groups and carried outinstruction.

• First Grade Teacher

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

  Significantly increased reading level of students, as measured by Acadience, from 38% testing on or above level at the beginning of the year to almost 80% testing on or above reading level by the end of this year.Led students through the process of creating riddles and scientifically accurate drawings about birds for Tracy Aviary. Helped students collaborate with each other from first draft to final product.Developed unique system to teach the alphabet sounds and names, vowel teams, diphthongs, and morphemes which includes sign language, music, and rap elements.Taught through COVID using a hybrid method that included distance and live teaching.Collaborated successfully with parents during COVID, created homework packets, used Google hangout to teach distance learning students, and communicated through the BLOOMZ app.Mentored student teacher to help her grow in her class management and teaching skills.Worked with my class paraprofessional to carry out successful interventions for struggling students. Show less

• Kindergarten Teacher

  • Aug 2016 - Jul 2019

  Developed unique multi-sensory approach improving student performance on Acadience state reading test to a point where 100% of students were performing at or above grade level by year end (school years often began with less than half of students performing at grade level)Helped students achieved these results despite students facing challenges related to many of them learning English and coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds and most entering classroom with little or no letter or number experience.Collaborated with a Headstart location for kindergarten students to create an alphabet learning book for preschoolers. Students went through a revision process after choosing a letter name,words that started with their chosen letter, and making a drawing of their chosen words. Kindergarteners read their books to the preschoolers during a field trip. Show less

• Second Grade Teacher

  • Aug 2015 - Jul 2016

  Worked with Opera by Children to create an opera with my class aligned with common core science and language arts standards to explain different types of rocks.Volunteered for an hour after school each day this year to help students with reading deficits in my class. Many of these students grew enough to be able to read on grade level. All of them grew in their reading skills.



Granite School District

• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Kindergarten Teacher

  • Oct 2014 - Jul 2015

  Created several behavioral intervention programs to help both AM and PM classes with autistic children to improve their conduct and academics.

• Kindergarten Teacher

  • Aug 2013 - Oct 2014

  Ensured that students experienced learning through many hands-on opportunities such as raising butterflies.Used singing, puppetry, sign language, rap and other methods to capture student attention and ignite curiosity.