Angela Perry
Verdunville,WV
Summary
Enthusiastic Assistant Principal offering a 3-year history of supporting academic administration functions. Focused on enforcing state, district and school policies as well as optimizing procedures, empowering teachers and improving student achievement, attendance and behavior through highly effective teaching strategies. Motivated to improve relationships among faculty, students and families. Personable and outgoing with skill in building rapport with all school and community stakeholders.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Assistant Principal
Logan Middle School
08.2021 - Current
- Led meetings to convey policy changes, gather information, and assess employee thoughts.
- Oversaw schedule management and protocols for orientation, registration, and related activities.
- Built productive relationships with parents of students facing difficult situations at school or at home.
- Performed classroom evaluations to assess teacher strategies and effectiveness.
- Supported hiring, training, and disciplinary action in compliance with legal guidelines and requirements.
- Monitored student behavior and enforced discipline policies.
- Supervised and evaluated teaching and support staff through instructional leadership and professional development.
- Trained teachers on effective teaching techniques, classroom management strategies, and behavior modification.
- Partnered with principal to administer school program in alignment with vision and goals, providing positive, high-expectation academic environment.
- Administered personnel policies and procedures and approved professional staff additions.
- Assisted with compliance efforts for fire and other safety regulations.
- Collaborated with school board officials to assess areas for improvement in curricula, classrooms, testing and student activities.
- Monitored and evaluated educational programs to maintain high-quality performance objectives and standards.
- Supported special education department by developing programs and protocols for at-risk youth and students with special needs.
- Built and maintained positive relationships with diverse stakeholders, such as parents, school volunteers and outside agencies.
- Instructed small groups of teachers and students.
- Oversaw operations of the Special Education Department within the school, conducting SAT, IEP, and 504 Plan meetings
- Supported families with attendance concerns
- Presented at the 2022 ICLE Model Schools Conference in Orlando Florida as a National Model Middle School.
Reading Specialist
Logan Middle School
01.2018 - 06.2021
- Wrote and delivered customized instruction to individual students and groups.
- Performed assessments and analyzed results to spot students in need of further help.
- Monitored student performance to evaluate effectiveness of instructional strategies.
- Utilized technology to create meaningful lessons that engage students.
- Facilitated small group instruction to address individual learning needs.
- Planned daily activities to keep students engaged and on track with learning goals.
AFT-President
American Federation of Teachers
01.2017 - 06.2021
- Presided over union meetings and promoted agendas with transparent information for union workers.
- Inspired and directed union officials to promote continued development and management of organization and establish decision-making processes to enable union to achieve long- and short-term goals and objectives.
- Cultivated strong and transparent relationship with workplace to promote open communication about problematic issues against stated milestones and goals.
- Facilitated communication between departmental teams and stakeholders to build consensus.
Special Education Teacher
Verdunville Elementary School
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Assisted struggling students to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
- Encouraged students to take ownership of learning by providing choices.
- Facilitated small group instruction to address individual learning needs.
- Developed Individual Education Plans for students with special needs.
- Designed individual education plans to encourage student growth according to different learning abilities and needs.
- Collaborated with other educators to develop instructional strategies.
- Implemented behavior modification techniques to improve student social and academic performance.
- Monitored student performance to evaluate effectiveness of instructional strategies.
- Helped students with special needs integrate into general classroom environments by advocating for individual requirements and helping teachers solve problems.
Kindergarten Teacher
Verdunville Elementary School
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Delivered lesson plans, implemented school curriculum and used data to create, monitor, and establish personalized learning plan for each student.
- Applied evidence-based practices for classroom management to enhance learning results.
- Identified characteristics, needs, abilities, and problems of each child through personal interaction and progress reports to optimize approaches.
- Created, managed, and participated in variety of learning environments and activities to support opportunities for students to develop full potential and achieve learning objectives.
- Exercised good classroom management focused on positive behavior support by clearly articulating fair and consistent expectations along with appropriate natural consequences.
- Created child-centered learning environment characterized by consistent application of sound mental health and educational psychology practices.
- Built positive relationships with students and families for safe, trusted learning support.
- Promoted learning through play with engaging activities, games and lessons.
- Recognized children's physical, emotional and social needs for personalized support.
- Delivered structured lessons on readiness skills by emphasizing phonics, language skills, literature, and handwriting.
- Observed and assessed student performance and charted progress.
- Arranged parent-teacher conferences to address student progress and collaboratively set goals for areas of improvement.
- Kept accurate documents about student progress for school and parent records.
- Helped struggling students by motivating and encouraging kids to reach full potential.
- Advanced learning techniques by using differentiated instruction strategies to accommodate student needs.
- Encouraged and prepared students to become independent readers through systematic, multi-sensory instruction in phonemic awareness and decoding skills.
- Utilized various assessment strategies to evaluate student performance.
- Created and supervised variety of hands-on learning activities for fun and engagement.
- Collaborated in planning, organizing and implementing instructional programs to facilitate academic, intellectual and social development.
4th Grade English Language Arts Teacher
Logan Elementary School
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Led classroom discussions to encourage students to analyze literature critically.
- Assisted with student organization events to promote student engagement.
- Tutored students struggling with course material.
- Participated in department and employee team meetings to discuss student performance and academic achievement.
- Developed and implemented course materials, lecture notes and assignments.
- Incorporated current events into lesson plans to promote student engagement.
- Evaluated and graded students' essays, projects and exams.
Education
Graduate Certificate - School Principalship
Marshall University
Huntington, WV12.2019
Master of Arts - Literacy
Marshall University
Huntington, WV12.2017
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education K-6
Marshall University
Huntington, WV12.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Nuclear Medicine Technology
West Virginia State University
Institute, WV12.2004
Skills
- Group facilitation and presentations
- Personnel Management
- Performance monitoring
- Teacher Mentoring
- Instructional Leadership
- Relationship building and networking
- Student achievement
- Discipline management
- Parent Engagement and Communication
- Program Evaluation
- Data-Driven Instruction
- Faculty support
- Policy Implementation
- Special Education
- Organizational Leadership
- Opportunities Identification
- Performance Evaluations
Certification
- School Principalship, K-AD
- Reading Specialist, K-AD
- Multi-categorical, 05-AD
- Multi-categorical, K-06
- Early Childhood Education, PK-K
- Elementary Education, K-06
Leadership Roles
- Logan Middle School- Leadership Team Chair, LMS LSIC Team, LMS CSI Team Facilitator, Mentored 2 educators in the Literacy Master’s Program, LCS ELA Textbook Adoption Committee (Middle School). Family Engagement Coordinator
- Mentor for two new Special Education teachers, Mentored student teacher candidates for Marshall University, Mentored Grand Canyon University Graduate Student in the Leadership Program
- LMS Leadership Team Facilitator, LMS LSIC Team, LMS S.A.D.D. Sponsor, LMS LEAD Team, LMS Literacy Team
- Verdunville Elementary School- Leadership Team, LSIC Team, Safety Team, Crisis and Response Team
- Logan Elementary School Leadership Team, Faculty Senate Chair
- Director for Thirty-one Gifts (Direct Sales Company)
Timeline
Assistant Principal
Logan Middle School
08.2021 - Current
Reading Specialist
Logan Middle School
01.2018 - 06.2021
AFT-President
American Federation of Teachers
01.2017 - 06.2021
Special Education Teacher
Verdunville Elementary School
01.2016 - 01.2018
Kindergarten Teacher
Verdunville Elementary School
01.2015 - 01.2016
4th Grade English Language Arts Teacher
Logan Elementary School
01.2014 - 01.2015
Graduate Certificate - School Principalship
Marshall University
Master of Arts - Literacy
Marshall University
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education K-6
Marshall University
Associate of Applied Science - Nuclear Medicine Technology
West Virginia State University
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