Middle and High School Librarian

• Jul 2019 - Present

Director of Library Services

• Aug 2011 - Jul 2019

Current Library Leadership ▪European Council of International Schools (ECIS) - Chair of ECIS Library Committee - Conference Organizer (ecislibrary2018.com) ▪ Near East South Asia Council of International Schools (NESA) - Library Professional Development Conference Team - School Liaison (peer-elected) Sample of Job Responsibilities: ▪ Teaches lessons and offers in-class support to students and teachers, preschool-grade 8 related to curriculum, digital citizenship, online tools, literacy, and school mission ▪ Head of Department, leads a team of 8 people ▪ Manages a large budget and a 65,000+ volume collection across campus ▪ Actively organizes author visits, book fairs, and library events (i.e. book parties, Dot Day, Book Week) Accomplishments: ▪ Innovatively reconfigured entire collection to be genre and category based, empowering students as readers and dramatically increasing overall annual book circulation by 152% ▪ Leads a popular home language library program, with monthly after school read alouds in multiple languages, parent ordering teams, and a 1900% increase in mother tongue collection offerings ▪ Created entire room to successfully support school literacy program: Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop ▪ Spearheads ongoing library design, using design thinking, with new enhancements every year Additional Contributions: ▪ Peer Mediation Advisor, World Scholars Cup Advisor, Book Club ▪ Information Literacy Task Force Leader ▪ Committees and Teams: School Strategic Plan Team, Instructional Leadership Team, Teaching and Learning Committee, Marketing Team, Campus Development Team ▪ Council of International Schools (CIS) Accreditation Team Member Professional Development: ▪ Making Thinking Visible (Church) ▪ Building a Culture of Inclusion (Powell) ▪ Adaptive Schools (Garmston) ▪ Professional Learning Communities and Critical Friends (Maclean) ▪ EAL (Rojas) Show less

EAL and World Languages Teacher

• Aug 2005 - Jul 2011

▪ Yearbook, Student Council, Book Club, Knowledge Bowl, Speech and Debate, Dances/Recreation Nights Chaperone, Trip Chaperone, Cooking Club, Mural Painting Club, Environmental Friendly Art Club, Cultural Arts, Co-Director and actor for several school plays, Community service projects participant ▪ Central and Eastern European Schools Association (CEESA): AISB School Liaison (director-appointed) ▪ Mentor: ECIS International Teaching Certificate ▪ Instructor: Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms (licensed tutor). Semester graduate course. ▪ Library intern (in addition to main teaching assignment) for 2 years Show less

World Languages Teacher

• Aug 2001 - Jul 2005

▪ $10,000 National Semiconductor Internet Innovator Award - for creating and leading a multilingual talking picture dictionary project, made by over 1,000 students ▪ Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholarship to Tokyo and Dazaifu, Japan ▪ National Board Certification (10 years): WLOE Young Adult, obtained 2004 ▪ 2005 Language Teacher of the Year, Maine (nominee also in 2003) ▪ Yearbook, International language trips organizer and leader, Civil Rights Club ▪ American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Maine - Vice President - Conferences Chair Show less

World Languages Teacher

• Jan 2000 - Jul 2001

▪ Assessment Committee ▪ Elementary School Language Club ▪ Assessment Committee ▪ Elementary School Language Club

EAL Teacher

• 1995 - 1999