Education Support Coordinator

• Aug 2022 - Present

The Education Support Coordinator with HCEF builds relationships with students, families, school and housing agency staff, and the HCEF team to advance the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The coordinator will help in shaping HCEF’s new Mobile Learning, Home Visiting Tutoring Program, which will expand HCEF’s efforts to collaborate with families not previously reached. The Education Support Coordinator with HCEF builds relationships with students, families, school and housing agency staff, and the HCEF team to advance the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The coordinator will help in shaping HCEF’s new Mobile Learning, Home Visiting Tutoring Program, which will expand HCEF’s efforts to collaborate with families not previously reached.

High School Social Studies/English Language Arts Teacher

• Nov 2019 - Aug 2022

•• Serve as a support/contact person for ninth grade teachers •• Plan and facilitate grade-level meetings to ensure continuity •• Responsible for grade-level supply orders through Procurify •• Plan and facilitate professional development sessions, such as “Discipline Procedure Trainings” and “Racial Biases and Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline” Teacher Leader •• Plan and facilitate vertical team and PLC (Professional Learning Community) meetings to educate teachers on school-wide educational policies and further develop their craft •• Collaborate with school-based administrators and the curriculum and professional development teams •• Participate in the interview and hiring process for ECHS’s current 10th grade and future 11th grade educational teams •• Participate in instructional leadership educational sessions •• Serve as a model and/or lab classroom facilitator Social Studies / Humanities / English Language Arts Teacher / Crew Leader •• Create and implement Civics and Government curriculum for in-person and virtual environments, focusing on social justice and environmentalism, and on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals •• Develop/implement Crew social/emotional support curriculum utilizing EL Education and Positivity Project Show less

Building Substitute

• Aug 2019 - Nov 2019

7th and 8th Grade ELA Teacher

• Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

English Communications Teacher

• Nov 2014 - Feb 2019

Managing Editor

• Aug 2007 - Aug 2012

Freelance Writer ​​​​ August 2011 - September 2012 ••​Wrote/revised brochures, press releases and other marketing materials utilizing style guidelines and the Associated Press Style on a piece-rate basis ••​Provided customer service to ensure correct and prompt completion of materials Managing Editor/Supervisor ​ August 2007 - July 2011 ••​Spearheaded departmental transformation to a paperless work environment, enabling writing staff to work home full time, increasing productivity by 15% ••​Absorbed three additional full-time positions ••​Provided management of administrative assistant, editing, writing and freelance team; Oversaw interview and training processes ••​Calculated and enforced quotas to maintain production timelines based on monthly sales, addressed concerns or questions with writers and editors Show less