Experience

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  Ampact

  • Lakeville, Minnesota, United States

  • Reading Teacher

    • Aug 2021 - Present
    • Lakeville, Minnesota, United States

    Teaching students and helping train new tutors entering the ReadingCorps program. Helping students in K-3 read at grade level using multiple ReadingCorps interventions. Learning techniques to increase students’ accuracy, speed, and confidence building to read proficiently with either pairs or one-on-one teaching. Graduated many students from the program. Building relationships with students, teachers, and staff for best student outcomes. Issuing weekly tests, tracking student reading skills, and building databases. Constantly updating skills through trainings. Also helping new tutors with interventions, learning the database, and prepare for evaluations. Developed a geography week for the 3rd grade at the elementary school to increase geographic factual knowledge.

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  The American Swedish Institute

  • Minneapolis, MN

  • Visitor Services Associate for two museums

    • Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    • Minneapolis, MN

    Providing visitor services for exhibits and events and on-call Youth and Family associate. Using Altru and Salesforce to maintain visitor databases, course and event registrations and daily event schedules. Assist in youth and family programs with cultural and educational crafts and activities. Also worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Art for the Egypt exhibit prior to this.

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  Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative Curriculum

  • Plymouth, Minnesota

  • Educational Consultant

    • Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
    • Plymouth, Minnesota

    Creating curriculum for several subjects for students in grades 3-12 as part of an open digital curriculum project offered to many schools in Minnesota. I have created new content and updated courses to include current and relevant information, abiding by all state standards. Researched and included innovative information, images and videos for content enhancement to provide cutting-edge courses for students to remain internationally competitive.

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  Penzeys Spices

  • Lakeville, MN

  • Sales Associate

    • Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
    • Lakeville, MN

    In this position, I provided customer service, product promotion, handled cash and shipments and assisted the manager for a national spice company. Maintaining good customer relations and product knowledge has led to increased customer clientele in this specialized position.

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  Innocent Technologies, LLC

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Aug 2015 - 2016
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Transcription work for professional development sessions in Minnesota schools regarding achievement gaps has led to increased content knowledge and understanding of educator issues. Helped evaluate better strategies to present Innocent Classroom content. Increased knowledge of student behavior in different scenarios and how to help teachers relate to their students.

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  Victor Central Schools

  • Victor, NY

  • Global Education Consultant

    • Jul 2007 - May 2013
    • Victor, NY

    Organized and taught several courses in K-12 schools and organizations to bring current global information and 21st century skills to students. Also co-organized professional development sessions to incorporate global competence into the classroom. Primary organizer of a Global Competence Certificate Program at the high school and junior high level and guided students through entirety of program. The evolution of the GCCP also included writing documents to inform the school community on the importance of global competence. Co-organized a career forum on the importance of global information and skills necessary for careers in demand.

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  Chelsea Public Schools

  • Chelsea, Michigan, United States

  • Volunteer and Academic Event Organizer

    • Sep 1998 - Jun 2004
    • Chelsea, Michigan, United States

    Organized academic events relating to world geography and science projects. Created enrichment weeks and activities in elementary schools that did not exist in the curriculum. Worked with administrators and teachers to involve students in experiential projects and work with outreach organizations.

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  University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, AT&T and Health Economic Research

  • Database Analyst

    • Aug 1986 - Jun 1995

    Performed database analysis with family income panel data, health economic and telephone data. Manipulated data to provide information necessary for annual reports. Provided data analysis in several organizations and wrote reports.