Experience

Propello

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Education Partnership Manager - Southeast Region

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Striving to provide teachers with the support and content they need so they can reach their full potential. Striving to provide teachers with the support and content they need so they can reach their full potential.



Panamerican School

• Panama City, Panamá, Panama

• English Language Coordinator: 3rd - 6th Grade

  • Feb 2022 - Dec 2022

  Responsible for the hiring, training, scheduling and ongoing professional development of the 3rd-6th grade English language educator team and fostering student success at the Panamerican School of Panama. In addition: • Created effective schedules to include the required number of Reading, Spelling, and Grammar class periods per week. • Carried out bi-weekly professional observations and follow up feedback sessions to provide data-informed guidance on how to increase efficacy of classroom instruction for each teacher’s 50-student caseload. • Revised and updated weekly and trimester lesson plans, and coordinated classroom coverage in four grade levels of bilingual classrooms due to the absence of substitute teachers in the Panamanian school system. • Maintained consistent and open communication channels with students’ families and their classroom teachers in both Spanish and English ensuring a well-informed school-to-home connection. • Tracked and provided data-based feedback on the progress of more than 200 students across four grade levels in weekly director/coordinator meetings. Show less



Portland Public Schools

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• 6th Grade Learning Center Teacher

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2021

  Responsible for the creation of individualized education programs, case-management, service delivery for the 30-student, 6th grade population of students receiving special education in a learning center model. In addition: • Crafted legally-binding documents to ensure student success in the classroom and beyond and continually sought ways to perfect services provided through cross-disciplinary collaboration. • Achieved fidelity in computer-based online programs including Lexia, Nearpod, and Dreambox and provided virtual and in-person training to colleagues to bring them up to speed on how to effectively use these programs by interpreting data, and adapting to student needs. • Created recurring weekly sessions for parent contact to collaborate and support their efforts in guiding their students at home. Provided parents with clearly-stated, individualized solutions to minimize difficulties at home. Show less



Portland Public Schools

• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• ESL Teacher

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2018

  Responsible for the English Language development of the 20-student, K-8th grade population of emergent bilingual students and their families. In addition:• Provided embedded instruction in the content for Irvington’s emergent bilingual (EB) population grades 3-8 and Content Based English Language Development (CBELD) in grades K-2.• Collaborated with classroom teachers to create lesson plans that were language focused and consulted with them on ways to enhance their instruction. • Coordinated ESL night during Open House at Irvington.• Administered English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) and the ELPA21 each spring.• Attended monthly job-alikes to collaborate with fellow ESL instructors in the district. Show less

• Site Technology Coordinator

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2018

  Responsible for researching, purchasing, distribution, and maintenance of technology, as well as the adoption of educational software, and providing important ongoing staff professional development. In addition:• Onboarded eighteen classes, more than 500 students, and their teachers to education technology and learning management programs, including MobyMax, Learninga-z, and Seesaw.• Provided in-person professional development for the entire K-8th grade staff during staff meetings. • Followed up with video-recorded tutorials demonstrating how to set up their classes, create lessons, navigate the user interfaces as well as how to interpret data and make necessary adjustments. • Collaborated with parents, administrators and PPS purchasing to acquire and set up classrooms with educational technology for station teaching and blended learning. Sourced over $10,000 of funding from the community and paired this with the existing school budget to purchase $22,000 worth of chromebooks to improve student access to technology and the skill-enhancing programs it provides. Show less

• Kindergarten - 1st Grade Instructional Specialist

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Provided intensive direct instruction reading programs for tier 3 readers. Promoted four of seven Kindergarten and three 1st grade students to Strategic or Core from the fall to the winter of this school year.• Delivered progress monitoring to all tier 3 K-1 students and benchmark assessments for grades K-5.• Collaborated with five K-1 teachers to provide push-in, differentiated instruction in mathematics.

• Summer Reading Instructor

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  • Provided intensive reading intervention programs for students K-2 as well as enrichment activities throughout the day• Planned and organized a field trip for a student reward for good behavior.

• K-1 Special Education Case Manager, K-1 Instructional Specialist

  • Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Served as case manager for 5 students with disabilities and provided differentiated instruction and supports throughout the school day. Consulted and collaborated with outside resources to provide the best possible instruction for the students. Coordinated efforts between a feeding team, physical therapist occupational therapist, and speech pathologist to serve a student with developmental disabilities who was non-verbal.• Coordinated IEP meetings and reviews for students on caseload. • Delivered intensive reading instruction for 25 students in Tier 3 reading. Promoted four of eight kindergarten students and two 1st grade students from intensive to core and two to strategic according to DIBELS Next. Show less

• Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Instructional Specialist

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

  • Collaborated with teachers to determine leveled reading and math groups for Kindergarten through 3rd grade tier 2 and 3 students.• Delivered targeted direct instruction through the Reading Mastery curriculum and Corrective Reading curriculum. • Served reading and writing minutes for students with IEPs.

• Intervention and Assessment Coordinator

  • Nov 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Reviewed reading benchmark and progress monitoring data and compiled reports for teachers, administrators, and parents to provide effective feedback.• Suggested, trained teachers and successfully implemented methods to improve instruction and ensure the success of all students.



Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)

• United States
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• County Coordinator

  • Aug 2012 - Jul 2013

  Responsible for providing initial and follow up in-person professional development to a team of 20 assessors, and interventionists across four schools in Wakulla County, Florida participating in the FCRR’s Reading for Understanding project funded by the National Institute of Health. In addition:• Trained assessors and interventionists in the research-based protocols of each of the 20+ assessment subtests being administered and the subsequent small-group interventions.• Coordinated and facilitated bi-weekly meetings with administration and teacher teams at participating schools. Visited each school daily to connect with administration and teaching staff and to ensure fidelity in these interventions among my research team. • Proactively sought solutions to make our presence in school as minimally intrusive as possible. Worked with teacher teams to schedule intervention groups that synced with their existing schedules, ensuring vital instructional time was maximized.• Communicated progress, school concerns and requests, and offered solutions during weekly research lab meetings. Show less

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Apr 2010 - Jul 2012

  • Worked as a graduate research assistant on the School-based Prevention of Learning Disabilities project as an interventionist, a coder, an assessor, and in data entry.• Reading Interventionist: Taught two first-grade tier 2 reading intervention groups using a research-based reading curriculum and differentiated instruction. Catered to students’ individual needs and increased phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension of each student.• Assessor: Achieved consistent high fidelity ratings in administering multiple criterion-based reading assessments and progress monitoring measures.• Coder/Data Entry: Achieved inter-rater reliability using a variety of coding measures and coded the assessments in order to monitor student progress. Show less



Lively Transition Center

• Graduate Student Intern

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

  Worked teaching students with various disabilities functional skills and daily-living skills while preparing them for their job-placements. Succeeded in placing four new students in the workplace while maintaining work experience for other students. Worked teaching students with various disabilities functional skills and daily-living skills while preparing them for their job-placements. Succeeded in placing four new students in the workplace while maintaining work experience for other students.