AMERICA PATTON
Kansas City,US
Summary
Empowering students to transform the world through service-learning education.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Substitute Teacher, K-12
Morgan Hunter Education
Overland Park, Kansas
02.2017 - Current
- Created a safe, culturally relevant, caring, and student centered scholarly learning environment that allowed all students problem solve.
- Sustained a learning culture of creativity, trust, and reflective inquiry through hands on real-world learning experiences.
- Demonstrated professionalism, active citizenship, empathy, and creativity.
- Modeled meekness, kindness, integrity, creativity, compassion, active listening, and a resilient mindset.
- Integrated technology, convergent, and divergent thinking activities into lesson plans to facilitate student understanding of differentiated subject material.
AmeriCorps service-learning volunteer
AmeriCorps
Kansas City, Kansas
07.2015 - 07.2016
- Company Overview: government corporation for national community service
- Served as a social justice leader, and service learning leaders in various communities beyond my own ZIP code.
- Collaborated with diverse students, teachers, school districts, families, professional architects, civic leaders, policy leaders, and businesses to help reduce poverty, reduce crime, reduce homelessness, to speak out about animal abuse, violence against women, to reduce the speed of climate change, and to discuss ways to abolish racism.
- Reduced school suspensions by empowering youth through real-world service-learning experiences.
- Provided academic interventions and tutored students from various cultures, communities, and countries.
- Built caring relationships with the elder population through service-learning.
- Mentored and coached indigenous students, teachers, and student service-learning leaders.
- Government corporation for national community service
Paraeducator, Special Education
Kansas City Public School
Kansas City, Kansas
08.2013 - 05.2014
- Provided emotional support and guidance to students facing physical, social, or emotional challenges in order to create a safe learning environment.
- Collaborated with other professionals, including speech therapists, occupational therapists, and psychologists to ensure appropriate accommodations were provided to students.
- Built caring relationships with autistic students on the low end and high-end spectrum.
- Supported classroom teachers in creating a positive learning environment for all students.
- Implemented evidence-based interventions tailored specifically for individuals with disabilities.
Education
Master of Science - Special Education- Gifted, Talented, Creative K-12
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS05-2025
Master of Science - Elementary Education - K-6
Emporia State University
Emporia, KS12-2023
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction - Teacher Leadership
University of Missouri @ Kansas City
Kansas City12-2010
Skills
- K-16 service-learning curriculum designer
- K-16 service-learning education director
- K-16 service-learning education, global outreach, mentor
- K-16 service-learning team collaborator
- K-16 service-learning education instructor
- Adaptable, creative, critical thinker, proactive communicator, dependable, loyal, compassionate, effective listener, team-oriented collaborator
- K-12 teacher writing consultant
- Global writing mentor
- Conference presenter
- Bill of Rights Institute curriculum collaborator
- Social Justice action driven leader
- Service-learning education assessor
- Reflective problem solver
- Data assessment collaborator
- Virtual teacher leader
- Creative problem solver
- Smartboard technology leader
- Character education co-teacher
- Differentiated instruction co-planner
- Social-emotional co-teacher
- Record keeper of student data
- Google Classroom facilitator
- Museum preservationist artifact assistant
- Music therapy innovator
- Cultural research record management
Affiliations
- Inducted into J.C. Harmon Sports Hall of Fame class of 2024 for track and football.
Accomplishments
- Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education, Alpha Iota Chapter for demonstrating academic scholarship.
- Awarded Kristine certificate for demonstrating excellence in writing with the Flint Hills International Writing project.
- Inducted into the Phi theta kappa honor society for demonstrating academic scholarship.
- Kansas AmeriCorps global leader AmeriCorps
Certification
- Anti-Bullying certificate of completion
- Flint Hills International teacher writing certificate
- Kansas AmeriCorps lifetime service certificate
- Standard Substitue Lisensure K-12
COMMUNITY SERVICE Service Learning Coordinator Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater Kansas City, Overland Park , Kansas JUL '15 - JUL '16 │
- Established partnerships with various organizations to expand service learning opportunities for students.
- Developed and implemented service learning curriculum for high school students, focusing on communication and interpersonal skills.
- Analyzed service-learning student data analytically, quantitatively, qualitatively, and collaboratively.
- Monitored student performance throughout their involvement in service-learning projects.
- Provided reflective feedback during service-learning projects
- Solved real-world problems through real-world service-learning education projects.
- Engaged in place-based reflective teaching strategies with families, students, and policy makers.
- Reduced depression, suicide, hopelessness, and apathy in grades K-16 by engaging students in real-world service learning projects.
- Developed a culture of writing, discussion, compassion, and imagination by engaging indigenous cultural student leaders in real-world service-learning projects aligned with 21st century global S.T.E.A.M career pathways.
Service, inquiry and international discovery
- Collaborated and reflected with indigenous cultures internationally in Japan, China, Germany, London, Paris, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Amsterdam, and Uganda.
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Substitute Teacher, K-12
Morgan Hunter Education
02.2017 - Current
AmeriCorps service-learning volunteer
AmeriCorps
07.2015 - 07.2016
Paraeducator, Special Education
Kansas City Public School
08.2013 - 05.2014
Master of Science - Special Education- Gifted, Talented, Creative K-12
Emporia State University
Master of Science - Elementary Education - K-6
Emporia State University
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction - Teacher Leadership
University of Missouri @ Kansas City
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