Experience

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  Community College of Baltimore County

  • Catonsville MD

  • Director Of Special Projects

    • Sep 2014 - Present
    • Catonsville MD

    • Manage Job Network, a 2.5-million-dollar collaboration between the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) and Baltimore County Department of Social Services to provide job readiness, workforce development and employment for Temporary Aid to Needy Family recipients, Non-Custodial parents behind in child support (NPEP), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD), refugees, and aging foster youth.• Exceeded all annual pay for performance goals established by Maryland Department of Human Resources (MD-DHR)• Job Network’s Quick Jobs designated a best practice by Maryland Department of Human Resources.• Job Network awarded SNAP outreach grant - only college in the state to recieve the grant.• Awarded Food Stamp Employment and Training grant (FSET) Only college in Maryland to receive the grant.• Manage fourteen case managers and six job developer use of Efforts to Outcome (ETO), WORKS and Maryland Workforce Exchange (MWE)• Supervise and evaluate job readiness courses and staff of 10 instructors at three locations for three – five thousand students annually.

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  U.S. Department of Labor

  • Washington DC

  • Project Specialist - Subject Matter Expert

    • Aug 2012 - Sep 2014
    • Washington DC

    - Provide technical assistance to 303 training programs in the largest residential training program in country. 129 centers throughout the US and PR.- Develop SharePoint training resources for over 2700 career technical and academic instructors. - Provide program analysis and recommendations for program improvement both internally and for congressional requests.- Research, recommend and write policy for approval by National Director of Job Corps.- Designed, implemented and evaluated Performance Improvement Process for Job Corps Career Technical Training programs. Academic and Accountability units to model their processes on the CTT work.- Converted years of performance data from paper reports to Excel, allowing for the easy use of Pivot tables to provide data for policy makers. Begun the work of providing data resources to the field so meaningful analysis can be conducted.- POC and designer for web based resources and support materials.- Developed network of online virtual resources to provide support to numerous instructors in the field.- Increase the rigor of the Training Achievement Records, the documents used to determine what students in the training programs should know and be able to do upon completion.- Provide guidance and direction on development of career pathways for Job Corps modelled after the work done by the National Governor's Association.- Draft, interpret and provide implementation guidance policy and informational material.

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  Woodland Job Corps

  • Laurel Maryland

  • Business Community Liaison and Career Transition Manager

    • Jul 2011 - Jul 2012
    • Laurel Maryland

    • Manage business, media, governmental and community relations for the Center. Create and implement strategic and marketing plans. Identify industry linkages; implement Department of Labor policies. Develop internships sited for students to complete 6 week internships. Identify locations for Career Technical Training projects and community service venues.• Manage a four person team which provides career placement services for students completing the Job Corps program. Transition students into military, advanced training, college and career focused jobs in their trades. Provide FASFA support.

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  New Leaders for New School

  • Maryland Area

  • Maryland Director of Professional Development, Training and Coach Support

    • Jul 2005 - Jun 2009
    • Maryland Area

    Leadership Development:• Developed the training and evaluation systems for over 30 New Leaders Principals currently running Baltimore City Schools. • Collaborated with the MSDE office of certification to be granted certifying status. Through this partnership with MSDE, NLNS grants A&S I certification without the residents going through a university. • Designed, implemented and evaluated weekly full day training session focusing on observation and supervision, adaptive leadership, evaluation of culture and climate and problem solving as well as technical content development. • Provided monthly professional development sessions on coaching, adaptive leadership and evaluation of climate/culture and instruction to the top performing principals in Baltimore City.• Developed the coaching model in Maryland. As the coaching staff has expanded, hired and trained the new coaches. I support, offer coaching professional development and help problem solve when there are issues the coach can’t resolve on their own. Additionally, I have provided monthly professional development sessions on coaching, adaptive leadership and evaluation of climate/culture and instruction to the 15 top performing Principals in the City Schools.Curriculum development and Analysis of Instructional practices• Built professional development modeling effective teacher and principal practices that move student achievement in partner districts. • Designed, implemented and evaluated curriculum that allowed for the use of the resources in a way that develops the teachers and leaders. • Created a quick needs analysis and built professional development based on the district and state requirements.• Developed an instructional evaluation tool which quickly assessed the instructional level of a staff and developed a roadmap for professional development.

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  Baltimore City Public Schools

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Principal -

    • Sep 1999 - Jun 2005
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Teaching and Learning• Principal of Maree Garnett Farring Elementary School #203 – Baltimore City Schools. • Implemented a 3 year Comprehensive School Reform grant and brought Core Knowledge in the building. • Used the resources to change the culture at Farring. As a result, the school was removed from the failing schools list.• In 2005, the school was named National Distinguished Title 1 School (one of 19 in the United States) by the National Association of State Title I Directors for closing the achievement gap between subgroups. • Administer partner - Johns Hopkins University’s School Immersion Masters of Arts in Teaching (SIMAT), Flex-MAT and PRO-MAT programs as well as Towson University’s Masters of Arts in Teaching program. I have experience with Teach for America and the Resident Teacher Program. Farring was selected to be visited by First Lady Laura Bush in 2001 during Teach for America Week because of the strong support for alternatively certified teachers.Online/Distance learning• Conducted all professional development online through use of Blackboard platform.• Fostered partnerships with Johns Hopkins Center for Technology Education to provide professional development allowing Farring to become “paperless.” Encouraged innovation of teaching to implement electronic white boards and Blackboard in classrooms before this was the norm in an elementary school.• Facilitated staff experimentation with technology-embedded instruction and created numerous technology-based interventions to “triage” the needs of our school’s frequently changing population.