Experience

Mccallum High School

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  Collaborate with students to produce bimonthly newspaper, yearbook and daily social media and website posts for a nationally recognized journalism program. As the school’s University Interscholastic League coordinator, I coached journalism students to multiple district journalism titles with several students advancing to the UIL State journalism writing and editing competition. • Inherited an established program and maintained a strong tradition while also building on it • Created long-term strategies and procedures for the publication's continued success • Developed @macjournalism Instagram account, named the No. 1 scholastic journalism social media account by NSPA • Fostered growth of online newspaper so that it become a nationally award winning, independent school publication • Increased school yearbook sales from an average of around 500 to an average of around 850, an increase of 70 percent • Advised a yearbook that for the last three years has been chosen as a national sample book by the yearbook publisher • Improved the quality of print newspaper by switching printers to enable better print quality and full cover-to-cover color



Henry W. Grady High School

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher

  • Aug 2001 - Jun 2015

  Built and sustained a community of writers by advising an established newspaper program, by launching and developing a features magazine and designing writing-intensive courses in Advanced Placement journalism and sports journalism (with an emphasis on journalistic writing and narrative nonfiction). Enriched the AP U.S. History curriculum by creating opportunities for students to write creatively and to work with published authors through the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program. • Established writing and editing processes that fostered the long-term success of the program. During time served as adviser, the National Scholastic Press Association inducted Grady’s newspaper, The Southerner, into the National Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame for its sustained excellence. • Developed a portfolio grading system for teaching and evaluating students that led to nine students (in 14 years) winning the title of Georgia Champion Journalist (journalist of the year)



Wheeler High School

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher

  • Sep 1992 - Jun 2001

  Created multiple writing communities on campus: (1) By building a rigorous journalism program that included newspaper, literary magazine and yearbook. (2) By creating an American Studies program that integrated creative writing opportunities into a team-team taught course that combined American literature and U.S. history. (3) By developing and implementing a curriculum in in Advanced Placement Language and Composition (with a heavy emphasis on creative nonfiction writing). • Took over a publications program without much prior success and built a reputable program • Mentored a program that was named the all-around best journalism program in Georgia four years in a row • Recruited by yearbook companies to conducted training sessions and seminars on yearbook journalism