Chrystal Cicchine

• · Supports students, teachers, and administration while earning trust and respect in order to achieve common goals.
• · Collaborates with administration to plan and implement the school vision and state and local academic plans.
• · Facilitates implementation and provides support to teachers in transition to multiple new reading series, various assessments, and various programs/instructional strategies.
• · Develops Student Response to Instruction Plans for students who score in the intervention range on universal assessments.
• · Organizes and plans for school wide tier 2 groups and school intervention plans along with managing six Intervention Teachers.
• · Manages, schedules, and implements school before and after school tutoring program according to the Alabama Literacy Act.
• · Develops and provides professional development for teachers in grade level groups and faculty presentations based on observed needs.
• · Serves as chairperson for the PST team managing and maintaining paperwork.
• · Monitors development of all students in RtI in order to ensure students are making progress in current intervention plans and makes changes accordingly.
• · Performs individual assessments and analyzes results to identify students in need of further or change in intervention strategies.
• · Promotes memory, cognition and language development with hands-on activities and individualized instruction.
• · Mentors new teachers on student progress monitoring and legal document preparation.
• · Develops and implements behavior management plans to improve student behavior.
• · Provides professional development training to educate faculty and staff on state laws and regulations governing education.
• · Used approaches such as the Science of Reading to achieve dramatic results with students.
• · Coordinates regular PST/data meetings to share and analyze student performance data and success plans with colleagues and parents.
• · From 2020, decreased the number of 1st grade students identified as being at risk for dyslexia from 16% to 2% by implementing a new tier 2 plan
• · Focuses on student data to drive instruction.

• Instructed all tier 3 students in remediation of reading and math skills from first to fifth grades
• Designed remediation lesson plans for reading and math from first to fifth grades
• Collaborated with teachers and reading coach
• Served as advisor to teachers for new assessment program
• Maintained RtI paperwork for all tier 3 students.

• Developed and implemented interesting and interactive lessons to increase student understanding of COS
• Instructed all students daily in small group reading with independent learning stations
• Maintained effective classroom management and developed relationships with students, parents, and coworkers
• Mentored new teachers on the grade level
• Organized collaboration with the 2nd grade teachers in order to form grade level cohesiveness.

Magna Cum Laude, Class A, Instructional Leader P-12Class B, Elementary K-6