Amanda Rowley
Parker,ID
Summary
Highly enthusiastic special education teacher specializing in managing students and maximizing learning opportunities in diverse classroom settings. Passionate about collaborating with students, parents, and professionals to ensure students possess the necessary skills to navigate the larger world and thrive as successful adults.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Learning Specialist
Cherry Creek School District
08.2024 - Current
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Documented student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- Monitored student classroom and outdoors activities to promote student safety.
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
- Developed Individual Education Plans for students with special needs.
- Coordinated regular meetings to share and analyze student performance data and success plans with colleagues and parents.
- Provided emotional support to students and families.
- Utilized technology to create meaningful lessons that engage students.
Exceptional Student Services Team Lead
Aurora Academy Charter School
08.2021 - 08.2024
- Highly qualified in Social Studies
- Case management of 30+ high school students
- Varying Disabilities from SLD, SLI, SED, Autism, OHI
- Woodcock-Johnson IV, WIAT 4 Trained
- Self-Contained and team-taught classes
- READ Act Trained
- LETRs training for Vol 1
- Will complete Vol.2 in fall of 2022
- CLDE training complete June of 2022
Learning Specialist
Douglas County School District, Re. 1
08.2000 - 08.2001
- Highly qualified in Social Studies
- Case management of 30+ high school students
- Varying Disabilities from SLD, SLI, SED, Autism, OHI
- Woodcock-Johnson IV trained
- International Baccalaureate trained in the Middle Years Program for Individuals and Societies and Special Education- Unit Planner trained
- Self-contained classroom
- Team teaching
- Scheduling Annual and Triennial meetings for team members
Learning Specialist
Denver Public Schools
08.2001 - 01.2021
- Case management of 15 students
- Woodcock-Johnson III R trained
- Scheduled meetings with parents
- Self contained US History and World History and Resource room
Education
Master of Arts - Educational Leadership And Management
Regis University
Denver, CO12-2025
Masters of Arts - Mild/Moderate SPED
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado01.2001
Bachelors of Science - Equestrian Science
William Woods University
Fulton, MO01.1996
Skills
- Individual instruction
- Needs analysis
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Coaching and mentoring
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration
- IEP compliance
Certification
- Current Colorado Teaching License 5 to 21 in Mild/Moderate Special Education
- Highly Qualified in History and English- Passage of PLACE
- READ ACT
- ELD Passed
- LETRs trained
- Orton-Gilligham Trained
Community Service
- Volunteer for Forever Morgans- Rescue organization that helps place Morgan horses across America.
- Several Classes taken with Facing History and Ourselves in the areas of: Holocaust Education, Reconstruction, Choices in Little Rock (Little Rock 9), Armenian Genocide, Race and Membership, Ferguson and teaching in the Digital Age, LGBT issues, BULLY training, Nanking Atrocities, Antisemitism, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 3 day training at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Echoes and Reflections- University of Southern California, Shoah Training through the IB for MYP unit planning for Individuals and Societies and Special Education Teacher at Joy Lutheran Church for the Bethel Series
Recommendations
- Mrs. Joy Lewis, Mentor and friend, 720.955.8914
- Ms. Shana Alaniz, ELD teacher and friend, 720.266.0261
- Kira Subota, TOSA APS, 303.834.42206
Timeline
Learning Specialist
Cherry Creek School District
08.2024 - Current
Exceptional Student Services Team Lead
Aurora Academy Charter School
08.2021 - 08.2024
Learning Specialist
Denver Public Schools
08.2001 - 01.2021
Learning Specialist
Douglas County School District, Re. 1
08.2000 - 08.2001
Masters of Arts - Mild/Moderate SPED
University of Northern Colorado
Bachelors of Science - Equestrian Science
William Woods University
- Current Colorado Teaching License 5 to 21 in Mild/Moderate Special Education
- Highly Qualified in History and English- Passage of PLACE
- READ ACT
- ELD Passed
- LETRs trained
- Orton-Gilligham Trained
Master of Arts - Educational Leadership And Management
Regis University
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