Angela McCullough
West Salem
Summary
Licensed, 1-8 Elementary Teacher with a K-12 Reading Endorsement with over 30 years of classroom teaching and leadership. Highly compassionate educator and literacy coach with extensive experience in student assessment, diagnosis, intervention planning, and instruction. Highly skilled at directing teams toward school wide literacy improvement through data analysis, mentorship, and coaching.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Literacy Coach
Northwestern Local Schools
08.2023 - Current
- Hired to draft a district wide Literacy Plan for grades K-12
- Lead strategic planning efforts to improve literacy instruction across the district
- Work with district leaders to raise standardized test scores in reading and achieve district wide goals
- Perform regular data collection and reporting to track district literacy outcomes
- Organize regular professional development to enhance literacy instruction across the grades
- Spearheaded and developed parent information sheets to publish universal screening and diagnostic testing scores for literacy and math for Northwestern Elementary School
- Led various book studies on reading and writing instruction for Northwestern Elementary staff (January 2022 - Present) and regularly connect colleagues with literacy resources
- Assessed students using universal screeners, diagnostic tests, and progress monitoring tools
Elementary Teacher
Northwestern Local Schools
08.1992 - 08.2023
- Planned Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science curriculum for grades 1, 4 and 5
- Performed regular parent outreach and communication through conferences, website design, and IAT/IEP meetings
- Transformed teaching instruction using online modalities (Google Classroom and Zoom) during the global pandemic Spring 2020 - Spring 2021
- Engaged in strategic planning activities via the Building Leadership Team (2019 - Present) and the District Leadership Team (2023 - Present)
- Generated student data profiles for IEP meetings
- Participated in the Grade Card and Curriculum committees for Northwestern Elementary School
- Mentored student teachers and worked with RESA program mentees entering the field of education
- Technology Proficiencies: Canva, Google Suite, Zoom, Screencastify, Seesaw, Acadience Learning, Microsoft Office Applications
Education
Master of Education - Literacy
American College of Education
Indianapolis, IN08.2025
K-12 Reading Endorsement -
Ashland University
Ashland, OH06.2014
B.A. - Elementary Education (Grades 1-8)
Ashland University
Ashland, OH06.1992
Skills
- Classroom management
- Instructional coaching
- Instructional planning
- Reading strategies
- Literacy program development
- Early childhood literacy
- Teacher mentoring
- Data analysis
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with Building Leadership Team in the development of curriculum adoption, analyzing data, and overseeing the universal screening and diagnostic testing for the district.
- Supervised team of paraprofessional staff members to deliver interventions for struggling readers.
- Documented and resolved weaknesses in Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruction which led to improved accuracy and fluency scores.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets to document literacy data as well as created a student testing document to inform parents of student progress.
- Used Google Slides to create intervention phonics lessons for primary grades.
Professional Presentations
- Northwestern Literary Program, Northwestern Local Schools board meeting, 05/17/25
- What is Data Telling Us?, Northwestern Elementary professional development workshop, 08/01/24
- Morphology: The Study of Word Meanings, districtwide professional development days, 08/01/24
- Literacy Coaches, Northwestern Local School Board, 04/01/24
- Writing Scope and Sequence: Intro to TWR, Northwestern Elementary staff, 03/01/24
- Focus on Literacy: Building a District Wide Literacy Task Force and Implementing Literacy Coaching Across All Grades and Disciplines, SREB Making Schools Work Annual Conference, Grapevine, Texas, 07/01/23
Additional Professional Development
- LETRS Training Certificate, 06/01/25
- The Writing Revolution Training Certificate, 02/01/24
- Institute of Multi-Sensory Education Training in Morphology, 06/01/24
- Ohio Pathways Training Certificate, 06/01/24
Timeline
Literacy Coach
Northwestern Local Schools
08.2023 - Current
Elementary Teacher
Northwestern Local Schools
08.1992 - 08.2023
K-12 Reading Endorsement -
Ashland University
B.A. - Elementary Education (Grades 1-8)
Ashland University
Master of Education - Literacy
American College of Education
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