Amanda Pastor

• Lead campus operations, instruction, and compliance for an adult high school program, supervising and evaluating instructional staff through data-driven appraisals and coaching cycles.
• Analyze enrollment, attendance, and graduation data to guide scheduling, staffing, and programmatic decisions; increased student enrollment and nearly doubled graduation rate within 18 months.
• Achieved 100% staff retention by implementing structured onboarding, clear performance expectations, and responsive instructional support.
• Manage campus budget and resource allocation aligned to instructional priorities and student outcome trends.
• Collaborate with life and college coaches to monitor student progress toward graduation using individualized data trackers.
• Identify special populations and ensure implementation of accommodations in compliance with federal and state requirements.
• Coordinate school-wide events and community partnerships to increase student engagement and persistence.
• Partner with the superintendent to align campus performance indicators with organizational strategic goals.

Develop and review 8th grade science STAAR assessment items aligned to state standards and psychometric guidelines.

Contracted Adjunct Faculty for the Biology department. Have done 1 semester of Biochemistry for the school. Leading lecture via Blackboard and Teams.

Score AP Biology free-response items using standardized rubrics to ensure reliability and validity of assessment results.

• Developing, testing, and supervising weekly laboratory experiments that relate to the current classroom lessons.
• Recognizing the curriculum and creating schedules, lesson plans, and instructional methods that will assist students in covering the required content.
• Preparing and delivering stimulating and clear lessons.
• Educating students about laboratory safety and ensuring that all experiments are conducted safely.
• Organizing tests, assignments, and experiments, as well as assigning and grading students fairly.
• Assuring students have access to appropriate resources and consultation times.

• Facilitate Human Anatomy & Physiology lectures and labs.
• 7-week courses where I grade, provide feedback, and build relationships.
• Create supplemental questions that are engaging and add to the current coursework that is provided by the university.
• Engaged students with insightful and compelling classroom discussion of topics relevant to coursework to boost student learning and retention.

• Plan, prepare, and deliver instructional lessons and activities
• Create a safe and positive educational climate in which students learn.
• Use both direct instruction and personalize learning strategies
• Assess student proficiency, monitor student progress, and provide grades in accordance with school procedures and regulations.
• Observe and evaluate student’s performance.
• Communicate with and engage parents and families to support student learning and habits of success

• Responsible for designing course work around TEA standards and the TEKS for each subject area taught.
• Responsible for following the department expectations for the dual credit courses through Grayson Community College.
• Develop both curriculum and labs to accommodated state requirements.
• Developed a STAAR bootcamp for the Biology state test.
• Demonstrated positive and effect classroom management skills.
• Taught Biology and Anatomy & Physiology

• Taught ¼ of the 7 th grade students on campus.
• Provide thorough and differentiated instruction that is centered around TEKS.
• Develop quizzes, assignments, lessons, and labs around the state created Unit exams.
• Work in collaboration with the science departments at the both the middle school and across the district to ensure scaffolding for students.

• Develop and grade lecture exams and lab practicals.
• Maintained records and coursework on Blackboard learning center.
• Prepare lessons around given textbooks and lab manuals.
• Council and mentor undergraduate students.
• Work directly with full time faculty to maintain consistent records.
• Independently teach lecture and lab sections for Human A&P 1, Survey of Human Anatomy, and General Biology.

• Independently taught labs for Principles of Biology I, Principles of Biology II, Human Anatomy and Physiology II, and Human Biology.
• Each lab contained about 20 students.
• Prepared lessons organized around given lab manuals.
• Prepared and graded lab practicals and quizzes.
• Educated students on writing lab reports, following CSE guidelines, avoiding plagiarism, and followed up with grading lab reports.
• Worked with faculty members to ensure that my material was correlated with other instructors and related to lecture information.
• Maintained 3 simultaneous grade records daily and routinely updated via Blackboard.