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David Stewart

Portland,OR

Summary

Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Social Emotional Learning/Behavior Specialist

Oregon City School District
2021.08 - Current
  • Responsible for all Tier 1 and Tier 2 PBIS (School-wide systems, expectations [visuals, lesson plans, activities, and videos], incentive economy, data systems [creation, input, and analysis], dissemination of data to appropriate stakeholders, chair Tier 1 committee, creation and updating of building PBIS Handbook, created and chaired Tier 2 intervention team, creation and implementation of Tier 2 interventions, taught skills groups, creation, implementation, and oversight of building’s Simplified Behavior Support Plans and Safety Plans.
  • Created and oversaw the school's sensory room.
  • Social emotional curriculum oversight of classroom teacher training and implementation.
  • Created and implemented character trait of the month lessons, activities, and awards.
  • Leading school’s ADL’s No Place For Hate (anti bias and anti bully curriculum and student committee).
  • Leading staff professional development on PBIS, Social Emotional learning, and Trauma Informed Practices.
  • Coaching staff members on behavior and classroom management.
  • Plan and lead school assemblies.
  • Conduct level one suicide screeners.
  • Conduct level zero and one threat assessments.
  • Member of the building's Site Council.
  • Building Representative on the District's Safety Committee.
  • District’s Social Emotional Standards Adoption Committee Member.
  • District’s PBIS Chairs Committee Member.
  • Intervention Team Member.
  • School Improve Plan Committee Member.
  • Special Education weekly review team Member.
  • Support and training for the building's two self contained behavior classrooms.
  • Presented at the District-wide Equity Conference.
  • On walkie talkie to respond to behavior needs as they arise.
  • Other duties as assigned (substituting for classroom teachers, entry, dismissal, cafeteria, and recess duty, morning announcements, etc.)

PBIS Chair

Oregon City School District
2021.08 - Current

Extra duty contract

TOSA Student Behavior Specialist

David Douglas School District
2018.08 - 2021.06
  • Teacher on Special Assignment responsible for school-wide Tier 2 and Tier 3 PBIS systems.
  • Designing, implementing, and overseeing behavior supports and interventions for groups and individuals at all three tiers (including FBA to BSP process).
  • Conducting functional behavioral analysis.
  • Creating, overseeing, and modifying behavior support plans.
  • Creation of building’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 handbooks.
  • Data collection and analysis to determine effectiveness of Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions and to be used in data driven decision making processes.
  • Running small groups for students to teach them social emotional skills.
  • Implementing fidelity checks on all three PBIS tiers.
  • Meeting with parents and guardians to better understand their students and improve the support their student receives.
  • Training teachers, instructional assistants, and other staff on behavior strategies, PBIS systems, and understanding behavior.
  • Collaborating with teachers and staff on Tier 1 PBIS systems.
  • PBIS Tier 2 team chair.
  • Member of the building's All Hands Raised Committee.
  • Member of the building’s Equity Committee.
  • Member of the building’s Green Team (PBIS Tier 1 Committee).
  • Member of the School Improve Plan Committee.
  • Other duties as assigned (substituting for classroom teachers, entry, dismissal, cafeteria, and recess duty, morning announcements, etc.)
  • On walkie talkie to respond to behavior needs as they arise.

Teacher in Charge

David Douglas School Disrtict
2018.08 - 2019.06

Extra Duty Contract - Teacher in Charge: covered principal’s responsibilities when they were out of the building.

Safety Patrol

David Douglas School District
2018.08 - 2020.06

Extra Duty Contract - trained students and oversaw student’s safety patrol.

TOSA Student Success/Behavior Systems

Centennial School District
2017.10 - 2018.01
  • Working with students and staff to help develop social and emotional skills.
  • On walkie talkie to respond to behavior needs as they arise.
  • Implementing and enforcing student discipline.
  • Developing PBIS Tier 1 interventions and schoolwide systems.
  • Teaching life skills.
  • Creating and teaching student groups (children with incarcerated parents, gang prevention, movement breaks, sensory breaks, coping skills, leadership groups)
  • Implementing D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) to increase volunteerism in school.
  • I worked closely with staff and administration to strengthen our policies and procedures including Tier I, II, and III PBIS support and efforts to make the school more equitable and culturally responsive.

Family Engagement Coordinator

Centennial School District
2017.10 - 2018.06

Extra duty contract - coordinating communication and activities among staff, parents, community, and administration; increase family involvement in school; disseminate information to families and community; identify and meet needs of houseless students; plan community activities; plan and lead school Booster Club.

Proctor

College Board
2021.08 - 2022.09

Responsible for proctoring SAT and ACT tests, maintaining test materials, and test site integrity.

Social Studies Teacher

k12 Online Academy
2017.09 - 2017.11

Monitoring student progress, assessing student work, providing instruction, maintenance of class website.

Substitute Teacher

Cascade Technology Alliance Substitute Services
2016.08 - 2017.10

Long term position at Bilquist Elementary in their Special Learning Center.

ESOL Student Teacher

Centennial School District
2018.01 - 2018.05

Social Studies Student Teacher

Portland Public School District
2015.08 - 2016.05

AVID Tutor and Classroom Aid

Parkrose School District
2014.10 - 2015.06

Teacher's Aid and Research Assistant

Charles University
2001.09 - 2001.12

English Teacher

Relax Language Studio
2001.09 - 2001.12

Education

Master’s Certificate - Positive Behavior Interventions And Supports

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Master’s Certificate - Teaching English Language Learner

Concordia University
Portland, OR
05.2018

TSPC ESOL Endorsement -

01.2018

Master of the Arts in Teaching (MAT) -

Concordia University
Portland, OR
06.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies

Portland State University
Portland, OR
12.2008

Skills

  • MTSS
  • Classroom Accommodations
  • Inclusion Strategies
  • Restorative Practices
  • Trauma Responsive

Service Projects

  • Safety Director and Behavior Coordinator, NWDSA Bike First!, Portland, Oregon, Creation of safety, trauma, and behavior trainings for staff and curriculum for campers, safety and behavior oversight during camp, 2016 to present
  • Portland Puppet Museum Puppeteer, Portland, Oregon, Performing in shows and helping with exhibits, 2019 to present
  • Intersection & Mobile Superhero, Sunday Parkways and other cycling events, Portland, Oregon, Overseeing volunteers, running rest stops, route marking, traffic control, public outreach, 2014 to present
  • Historian, Rev. Anthony Jacob Henkel Association Western Branch, Elected board member position, maintaining association records and artifacts, genealogical research, planning association events, 2019 to present
  • Manger/Head Coach, Centennial Little League, Centennial Basketball Association, Centennial Junior Baseball Organization, Gresham, Oregon, Planning and leading practices and games, preparing and maintaining facilities, communicating with parents and guardians, umpiring/refereeing, administering basic first aid, fundraising, 2013-2016
  • Special Events Coordinator, Rose City Cooperative Preschool, Portland, Oregon, Planned, promoted, and ran extracurricular activities for students and their families, aided in classroom several times a week, 2011-2012

Professional Development

  • ADL Breaking Down Bias: Championing Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms, 20 PDUs, in progress
  • Practical Cutting Edge Interventions for Improving Executive Function Skills in Students, University of Concordia, Wisconsin, 1 Master’s Credits, 2023
  • OEA Trauma series, Augustana University, Sioux Fall, South Dakota, 6 Master’s Credits, 2022-23
  • NWPBIS Conference, 10 PDUs, 2018, 2019, 2023
  • Applied Suicide Intervention Training, 16 PDUs, 2022
  • Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge: Medal of Honor Legacy: Technology and the War on Terror, 15 PDUs, 2020
  • Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, 20 PDUs, 3 Master’s Credits, 2020
  • OJMCHE Preventing & Responding to Incidents of Hate & Antisemitism, 6 PDUs, 2019
  • National Educators for Restorative Practices Conference, 16 PDUs, 2019
  • New Educator Academy, Western Oregon University, 1 Master’s Credits, 2018
  • George Washington Teacher Institute Residency Program at Mount Vernon, 35 PDUs, 2018
  • Social Emotional Learning PLT, 10 PDUs, 2018-19
  • Lover & Logic Conferences and Practicums, 10 PDUs, 2 Master’s Credits, 2017, 2019
  • Red Cross Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Certificate, current
  • Oregon: On the Trail of Primary Sources: A Workshop in Content and Pedagogy for Oregon Middle and High School Teachers, 50 PDUs, 2016
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid Workshop, 8 PDUs, 2016
  • Oregon Council for the Social Studies Fall Conference, 6 PDUs, 2015-16, 18-19

Hobbies and Interests

  • Bicycling - transportation, exercise, ecological impact, individual and group recreation
  • Volunteerism - community involvement (National History Day, Wordstock, Fences for Fido, Filmed by Bike, Girl Scouts)
  • Travel - lived and went to school on three continents

Timeline

Social Emotional Learning/Behavior Specialist

Oregon City School District
2021.08 - Current

PBIS Chair

Oregon City School District
2021.08 - Current

Proctor

College Board
2021.08 - 2022.09

TOSA Student Behavior Specialist

David Douglas School District
2018.08 - 2021.06

Teacher in Charge

David Douglas School Disrtict
2018.08 - 2019.06

Safety Patrol

David Douglas School District
2018.08 - 2020.06

ESOL Student Teacher

Centennial School District
2018.01 - 2018.05

TOSA Student Success/Behavior Systems

Centennial School District
2017.10 - 2018.01

Family Engagement Coordinator

Centennial School District
2017.10 - 2018.06

Social Studies Teacher

k12 Online Academy
2017.09 - 2017.11

Substitute Teacher

Cascade Technology Alliance Substitute Services
2016.08 - 2017.10

Social Studies Student Teacher

Portland Public School District
2015.08 - 2016.05

AVID Tutor and Classroom Aid

Parkrose School District
2014.10 - 2015.06

Teacher's Aid and Research Assistant

Charles University
2001.09 - 2001.12

English Teacher

Relax Language Studio
2001.09 - 2001.12

Master’s Certificate - Positive Behavior Interventions And Supports

Western Michigan University

Master’s Certificate - Teaching English Language Learner

Concordia University

TSPC ESOL Endorsement -

Master of the Arts in Teaching (MAT) -

Concordia University

Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies

Portland State University
David Stewart