Amy Sanchez

• Developed strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues to foster a supportive learning environment.
• Designed engaging lesson plans aligned with state standards, resulting in increased student interest and participation.
• Enhanced student comprehension by incorporating diverse teaching methods and adapting to individual learning styles.
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices in education and improve instructional skills.
• Contributed to school-wide initiatives such as curriculum development committees, professional learning communities, and extracurricular activities.
• Helped students develop academic, social and emotional skills for long-term success.
• Created supportive and inclusive learning environments, fostering positive classroom atmospheres supporting student growth and learning.

• Worked with individuals to help understand and overcome personal, social or behavioral problems affecting educational or vocational situations.
• Delivered supportive and knowledgeable individual and small group counseling to students with academic or personal concerns.
• Empowered students through counseling and skill-building exercises.
• Developed and implemented student guidance plans to foster academic success.
• Conducted group and individual counseling services to elementary students to meet developmental, preventive and remedial needs of students with learning disabilities.
• Collaborated with parents, school faculty and social workers to address problems and grow student success.
• 504 Coordinator
• Gifted and Talented Coordinator
• Special Education Referral Coordinator
• Head of parent involvement committee and lead planner of parent/family nights
• Member of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support team
• Member of the Threat Assessment Team
• Morning Announcements
• Social Media

• Provided individualized and diversified instruction to support student comprehension and assist with navigating challenges.
• Evaluated individual student abilities and created action plans based on current level and desired growth goals to support preparedness for transition to next grade level.
• Helped students develop self-esteem and life skills by fostering healthy conflict-resolution, critical thinking, and communication.
• Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in educational process.
• Collaborated with administrators on classroom policies, management strategies, and discipline.
• Utilized developmentally appropriate and rigorous curricula and instructional materials tightly aligned to benchmarks and Common Core standards.

Participating in internship has allowed me to gain hands on experiences as a school counselor. The program gave me insight on how I want to build my own comprehensive school counseling program to implement in a school setting.

• Individual counseling
• Small group counseling
• Individual planning
• Consultation and collaboration with teachers, families, and administrators
• Crisis intervention