Experience

FLOUR BLUFF ISD

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Literacy Specialist

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Provide Intensive Literacy Intervention to Sixty At Risk Students Create and Present Professional Development: Science of Reading, Balanced Literacy Develop and Monitor MTSS/RTI for Early Literacy Write English Language Arts Curriculum for Primary Grades Train and Supervise Paraprofessionals in Literacy Instruction Mentor and Coach Incoming Early Literacy Educators Site-Based Decision-Making Team Member Teacher Advisory Committee to Superintendent Member Provide Intensive Literacy Intervention to Sixty At Risk Students Create and Present Professional Development: Science of Reading, Balanced Literacy Develop and Monitor MTSS/RTI for Early Literacy Write English Language Arts Curriculum for Primary Grades Train and Supervise Paraprofessionals in Literacy Instruction Mentor and Coach Incoming Early Literacy Educators Site-Based Decision-Making Team Member Teacher Advisory Committee to Superintendent Member


Capella University
• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee
• Professor

  • Feb 2022 - Present
• Gifted and Talented Educator

  • Aug 2010 - May 2021

  Designed, differentiated, and facilitated online curriculum in all core subject areas for second grade students utilizing the SeeSaw platformTaught online lessons to over 40 students in math, science, social studies, shared reading, interactive read aloud, writer's workshop, and differentiated small group reading lessons both synchronously and asynchronously Wrote and taught social and emotional learning (SEL) lessons using Caldecott Honor Award Medal Winning texts to over 20 studentsAwarded Outstanding Humanities Teacher of the Year by Humanities Texas, 2019TEA READ Grant Recipient, Science of Reading, 2019-2020Led Multiple Gifted and Talented Professional Development Trainings as the Lead Gifted and Talented Educator for the Primary CampusFacilitated Gifted Identification Process which included Screening Flowchart, Parent/Teacher Referrals, Grade Level Universal ScreenerCreated and Implemented Student Directed and Self-Evaluated Project Based Assessments in All Core SubjectsDeveloped Cross-Curricular Units Culminating in Student Designed and Driven Products Presented to the School and Outside CommunitiesCoached over Twenty Students to Regional Award-Winning Success in University Interscholastic League Creative Writing CompetitionsGuided Students through Personal Achievement Goal Setting, Monitoring, Adjusting, and Reflecting in the Short and Long TermEarned over 90 Hours of Gifted and Talented TrainingEducated over 50 English Language Learners Show less

• Elementary Educator, Inclusion and General Education

  • Aug 2005 - May 2011

  Literacy Lead Teacher: Balanced Literacy, Science of ReadingCurriculum and Assessment WriterEnglish as a Second Language (ESL) TeacherTEA READ Grant Recipient, Science of Reading, 2019-2020Professional Development Presenter, Early Literacy English Language Arts Curriculum Developer and EditorTeacher of the Year, Flour Bluff Primary School, 2011Language Proficiency Assessment Committee (LPAC) Member, 2010-1011