Denise Duarte

Well-rounded and compassionate Special Education Teacher skilled at addressing each student's unique needs and creating effective lesson plans to accommodate special circumstances. Provides appropriate and individualized instruction to build foundations for lifelong learning. Develops, implements and acts as teacher of record of Individualized Education Plans for students with disabilities.

Focused on meeting student academic and emotional needs. Compassionate and caring in delivery of personalized, hands-on support and lessons targeted to specific learning needs and strengths. Creates and maintains an educational atmosphere that encourages effective student learning and supports school programs and goals. Demonstrates knowledge and best practices in differentiating instruction. Specializing in creating stimulating environments that help students achieve their full potential and enjoy learning. Communicates effectively and maintains strong relationships with scholars, families and colleagues.

Developed and delivered cross functional business plan that engaged local artisans and business to promote a ‘wedding fair’ concept focused on guiding brides-to-be through the viewing, selecting, and buying product with direct result in increasing brand business at targeted stores across the “wedding categories”.

Increased Multilingual Business category through increasing the vendor base, developing primary grade reading curriculum, expanding shelf ownership and driving programs in bilingual communities.

Created a publishing program that allowed books to be published in several languages; promoted in metropolitan Miami area and increased category revenue and overall customer traffic to stores and e-commerce sites.