Bex Schmelzel

• Built relationships and communicated with families to provide the best learning environment for children.
• Collaborated with mentors to develop and revise curriculum, enhancing students' learning experience.
• Utilized active engagement strategies to promote students' ownership of their learning.

● Adapted daily lesson plans to effectively support the academic needs of a student on an IEP

● Fostered communication skills between a non-speaking student with an AAC device and typically developing peers to cultivate equity in a general education classroom

● Composed and shared weekly documents between parents and team members to correspond about a student’s daily academic and social emotional progress

● Trained children ages 5-18 in the art of theater performance to motivate their creative expression in front of an audience

● Itemized costumes and set pieces on a weekly basis to ensure the safe travel of all production items from one location to another

● Documented weekly reports of each production to effectively communicate circumstances to headquarters and future teams who travel to each location

● Facilitated the development of sustainable life skills in children ages 3-5 through coordinated activities

● Encouraged appropriate conflict resolution and social emotional regulation through guided mediation