Experience

Roaring Fork School District

• Carbondale, Colorado

• Instructional Facilitator, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education

  • Aug 2022 - Present



EDWARD D JONES & COMPANY

• Washington, United States

• Branch Office Administrator

  • May 2021 - Dec 2021

  Designing protocols and solutions to enhance office and company productivity, including helping clients feel at home in a complex and ever-changing financial dynamic. Designing protocols and solutions to enhance office and company productivity, including helping clients feel at home in a complex and ever-changing financial dynamic.



Roaring Fork Schools

• Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado, United States

• Instructional Coach/Professional Development/Facilitation

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2020

  Grassroots role in creating and organizing the district’s new Department for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE). 25+ years of providing informative, engaging, and well-received school, district, and statewide professional development across a range of topics, including culturally & linguistically responsive instruction, social-emotional learning (SEL), project-based learning (PBL), multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), co-teaching, and numerous writing instruction models. Grassroots role in creating and organizing the district’s new Department for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE). 25+ years of providing informative, engaging, and well-received school, district, and statewide professional development across a range of topics, including culturally & linguistically responsive instruction, social-emotional learning (SEL), project-based learning (PBL), multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), co-teaching, and numerous writing instruction models.



Roaring Fork Schools/Crystal River Elementary School

• Carbondale, Colorado, United States

• Elementary School Principal

  • Nov 2004 - Jun 2013

  Willingness to embrace comprehensive change management to optimize success for students, staff, & community. Promoted mid-year to get a failing school off turnaround status into a successful Dual Language school. Resulted in school demographics better-mirroring town demographics, student outcomes substantially improved, and proud to have actively promoted bilingualism and cultural diversity. Willingness to embrace comprehensive change management to optimize success for students, staff, & community. Promoted mid-year to get a failing school off turnaround status into a successful Dual Language school. Resulted in school demographics better-mirroring town demographics, student outcomes substantially improved, and proud to have actively promoted bilingualism and cultural diversity.



Roaring Fork Schools

• Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado

• Master Teacher/Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA)

  • Aug 1991 - Jun 2002

  Students are the heart and soul of who I am and what I do. I am honored to have helped my students and teachers see and embrace new ways of doing what seemed impossible. Still and always a tireless advocate for authenticity, diversity, equity, and inclusion for emerging bilinguals and for students who need more, different, and better. Provided district and statewide professional development in innovative, research-based practices, mentoring individual teachers and teams to better meet the needs of their students. Show less