Cassandra Ynocencio

ICT, Self-Contained, GenEd, ENL, Creative Writing/Film & Lit., History, Science

• Worked in multiple departments and settings as well as lead general education, co-teaching and self-contained courses in my content area from 8th to 12th grade
• Exhibited cultural and literacy competence and effectiveness also received training in restorative justice, TWR, and other PD.
• Conducted meetings, written document, scheduled, coordinated, and assessed for IEP annual reviews; using Frontline and WIAT.
• Graded mock ELA Regents exams to give individualized /class feedback to classes that were not mine, in order to assist
• Participated in assemblies, as well as performed for the students
• Chaperoned school dances, proms, and HBCU Field trip
• Advisor c/o '24 from Sept. 2023 – June 2024 including fundraisers, budget, trips, dances, community activities, as well as, creativity, efficiency and delegation
• Redesigned Malcolm X 12th curriculum (school 5 min. from burial site) class book sets/audio, teacher guides, materials, protective bags, developing differentiated /bilingual content that adapted to ZPD on rigorous text and themes
• Built permanent relationships with staff, parents and students; member of community quickly, connecting culturally and personally
• Created bulletin boards multiple grade student code of belief unprompted
• Assisted in data and literacy achievement in ELA/ SpEd, presenting data analysis approach and template at meeting(s)
• Teacher-Designed graphic organizers, curriculum, differentiations and scaffolds to assist GenEd, electives, ICT, ENL, as well as Regents-Prep; taught Regents tutoring after-school.

• Communicated with teacher about 9-10th grade courses prior to start
• Designed unit with scaffold aligned to standards and Regents skills
• Created time capsule letters for classes of 24 & 25 to receive when graduate prior to getting permanent position
• Volunteered to present to ELA PLC data approach, templates and assessment design to help with regents/literacy across grade/dept.
• Created lessons for grade-level novels based on diagnostic, standards, and real-world cultural connections
• Collaborated with other 9-10th grade teachers for alignment
• Participated in ELA& SpEd PLC sharing insight, and tools
• Curated scope and sequence of lessons to guide students to final

ELA ICT, Self-Contained, Resource Room, General Ed, ENL ICT, Creative Writing

• Developed rubrics & lessons aligned to ELA standards and Regents skills
• Aligned language of rubrics and Regents evaluative tools to school-wide tools as well as introduced expectations in student-language
• Differentiated and scaffold lessons to meet diverse students ZPD
• Developed daily objectives and tasks based on assessment and ZPD
• Spiraled familiar skills or content with new skills or content for retention
• Chose relevant text and engaged in student-centered lessons, instilling protocol
• Created rigorous tasks based on meta-cognitive skills necessary for thinking and literacy across content areas, ensuring alignment
• Created a classroom culture of respect as well as unity on the human condition, human nature implied in literature content
• Guided IEP, ENL and GenEd students in practice scaffolds to prep for ELA Regents to receive 75+ during year and summer
• Created and taught a project-based creative writing curriculum
• Hosted writers club and brought to Nuyorican café student Slam
• Invited network of professional fields for career day & approvals
• Proctored Regents and 6-week teacher-designed assessments
• Analyzed data of assessments to inform corrective instruction; daily assessing to inform lessons, recursive cycle of extension and refinement
• Evaluated exemplars and models necessary to “norm” self as a grader of assessments provided by Regents/Common Core through professional development and as a paid Regents exam grader
• Created and collaborated to make new IEP teacher reports accessible through Google Forms, easier for all teachers to fill-in
• Developed remote learning Classroom; content and curriculum

Self Contained, Resource Room

• Assessed students literacy, wrote IEPs, and conducted IEP meetings
• Developed skills in special education testing, literacy levels and WIAT
• Simultaneously taught high school while completing Masters degree
• Developed great connection with students, community and principals
• Developed first literacy units that have been revised and improved

• Constructed meeting agendas and facilitated youth meetings
• Researched topics to support decision-making affecting operations.
• Facilitated communication between citizens and elected officials, while ensuring compliance with laws, policies and procedures
• Prepared materials like press releases or newsletters for distribution
• Organized events sponsored promoting engagement among citizens.