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ANDREA CARPENTER

St. Louis,MO

Summary

Character-focused Dean of Students accomplished in helping students reach full potential by preventing and controlling disruptive behaviors. Encouraged students to make positive choices and consistently model correct strategies. Focused on helping teachers enact effective controls and providing immediate support for complex issues.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Culture Leader

Power Program, KIPP St. Louis Public Schools
08.2022 - Current
  • Establish a positive, structured, achievement-oriented, and creative school culture.
  • Reinforce consequences assigned to students not meeting behavioral expectations by teachers and other staff.
  • Support the Assistant School leader of Culture’s efforts to ensure all students have excellent attendance and arrive at school on time, and work aggressively with students and parents to ensure excellent attendance.
  • Be highly visible and present during school hours, relentlessly ensuring the school has an exceptional school culture.
  • Proactively circulate throughout classrooms and hallways during the day, to gain valuable context on student behavior and help support positive school culture.

Extended Day Program Manager

The Biome Steam School
08.2021 - Current
  • Supervised program recruiting, selection, performance management, discipline, guidance and resource assistance.
  • Handled coordination of daily activities and direct report assignments.
  • Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees.
  • Interacts with students in a mutually respectful manner.
  • Praises students for learning accomplishments, on-task behaviors and appropriate conduct.
  • Gives all students opportunities to ask questions, contribute, and otherwise participate in group activities.
  • Maintains punctuality and regular attendance.
  • Maintains appropriate and positive communication with students and parents.
  • Participate in school-wide and individual professional development, and other ongoing training as needed.
  • Meet all expectations and requirements as stated in The Biome Employee Handbook.
  • Has the ability to consistently be at work, to arrive on time, and to follow instructions.
  • Establishes excellent interpersonal skills between all constituents.
  • Demonstrates excellent oral (including presentations), written, interpersonal (active listening).
  • Looks for ways to improve and promote quality and demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
  • Strives to implement best practices.

Site Coordinator

Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Deaconess Foundation
01.2017 - 07.2022
  • Partner with project director and servant leader interns in the planning and implementation of afternoon activities, the National Day of Social Action, local social action projects, and structured recess periods.
  • Actively recruited children and families for the program, as well as recruited, hired, trained, and managed staff.
  • Ensured the background checks and clearances of staff members, provided training on safety procedures and protocols, as well as provided first aid (mental and physical health) training.
  • Managing daily site activities to ensure proper implementation of the CDF Freedom Schools program model.
  • Coordinate field trips, family engagement initiatives, and volunteer responsibilities.
  • Scheduled staff and volunteers to cover all necessary duties during planned events.
  • Coordinated site investigations, documented issues and escalated to executive teams.
  • Recruited volunteers to assist with fundraising and community outreach.
  • Accurately documented all onsite issues.
  • Identified community resources and networked with local officials to coordinate.
  • Organized logistics and materials for each meeting, arranged spaces and took detailed notes for later dissemination to key stakeholders.

Teacher (Grades K-5) - (Grades 6-12) | Sep

St. Louis Charter Schools
09.2017 - 05.2022
  • Taught Science and English language instruction to elementary scholars.
  • Designed lesson plans focused on personalized learning for each student.
  • Participated in ongoing professional development and training with KIPP St. Louis.
  • Motivate and educate all scholars to learn and grow and strive for higher education.
  • Administered in-depth reading, spelling, and visual practice assessments to increase reading ability and accuracy.
  • Recruitment Fellow for reaching an optimum goal of enrolling 900 new scholars.
  • Led interesting and diverse group activities to engage students in course material.
  • Utilized multimedia strategies and technology to convey information in fresh and interesting ways.
  • Administered assessments and standardized tests to evaluate student progress.
  • Prepared and implemented lesson plans covering required course topics.
  • Promoted effective verbal and written communication through listening, speaking, reading and writing practice.
  • Built learning and citizenship skills to help with personal growth in addition to increasing academic knowledge.
  • Completed in-service and additional training to maintain professional growth.
  • Encouraged independent thought, good judgment and expression of original ideas.
  • Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in the educational process.
  • Helped students develop self-esteem and life skills by fostering healthy conflict-resolution, critical thinking and communication.
  • STUCCO Co-Chair 2020-2021.
  • Science Department Chair (Grades 6-8) | 2020-2021.
  • Science Department Chair (Grades 9-12) | 2021.

Education

Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership

Doctoral Candidate St. Louis University
St Louis, MO
05.2026

M.Ed. Education - Elementary Education

Grand Canyon University
04.2021

Bachelor of Science - Biology/Pre-Medicine

The University of Arkansas
05.2017

Skills

  • MS Word
  • MS PowerPoint
  • MS Excel
  • Google Slides
  • Google Documents
  • Google Sheets
  • Behavior Redirection
  • Program Management
  • Stakeholder Coordination
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Student Development
  • Classroom Management
  • Core Knowledge Sequence

Timeline

Assistant Culture Leader

Power Program, KIPP St. Louis Public Schools
08.2022 - Current

Extended Day Program Manager

The Biome Steam School
08.2021 - Current

Teacher (Grades K-5) - (Grades 6-12) | Sep

St. Louis Charter Schools
09.2017 - 05.2022

Site Coordinator

Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Deaconess Foundation
01.2017 - 07.2022

Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership

Doctoral Candidate St. Louis University

M.Ed. Education - Elementary Education

Grand Canyon University

Bachelor of Science - Biology/Pre-Medicine

The University of Arkansas

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