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E. Brook Mckenzie

Wilsonville,OR

Summary

Professional with strong foundational skills in crisis intervention and highly capable in actively providing emotional support. Skilled in active listening, conflict resolution, and maintaining composure under pressure. Strong team collaborator who adapts to changing needs and focuses on achieving positive outcomes. Known for empathy, resilience, and effective communication.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Preschool Teacher

Building Blocks Early Learning Center
02.2024 - Current
  • Build safe and nurturing relationships with children, families, and colleagues
  • Active listening and interaction
  • Utilize questioning skills to deepen learning and to check for understanding
  • Ongoing, clear and effective communication with students, families, and colleagues
  • Keep accurate and confidential records of student progress and performance
  • Classroom management
  • Ensuring a safe and stimulating environment for all students
  • Age-appropriate lessons and activities
  • Engage children in activities that promote academic, cognitive, social and emotional development
  • Ongoing assessment of every student
  • Promoting the development of self-regulation, problem-solving skills, de-escalation, empathy, responsibility, positive self-esteem, desire to learn, relationships with peers
  • Meeting each child where they are (cognitively, developmentally, socially, emotionally)

Adjunct Faculty

Aspen University
01.2014 - Current
  • Engage in ongoing communication with students
  • Build connection and relationship with students and small groups
  • Provide guidance and support
  • Assess student work and evidence of learning
  • Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly
  • Lead and participate in discussions
  • Teach assigned courses (education, sociology, psychology, composition)
  • Respond to student questions and concerns

Maricopa Unified School District
07.2006 - 06.2010
  • Experience teaching grades one through four. Duties: -Utilize strong verbal and written communication skills with students, parents, colleagues, and community members
  • Build strong, authentic relationships with students, families, and colleagues
  • Organization of physical spaces, documentation, meetings, materials
  • Clear, empathetic and effective communication-sc
  • Provide prompt, consistent, and ongoing feedback to students and families
  • Supporting, educating, and encouraging students utilizing multiple modalities to aid them in reaching grade level benchmarks
  • Teaching the whole child (nurturing all aspects of a child's well-being).
  • Supervise student teachers, as assigned
  • Collaborate with students, families, colleagues, community
  • Engage in self-reflection and critical thinking
  • Build a strong and positive classroom community in which students feel connected, sense of belonging, safe, secure, heard and seen
  • Actively listening to students
  • Ongoing work to identify student needs (academic, social and emotional needs)
  • Utilize a range of strategies to engage students in academics and social emotional learning
  • Adapt instruction and support for individual students and the classroom community as a whole
  • Monitor, adjust and adapt approaches to accommodate student needs and various learning styles
  • Maintain flexibility and equilibrium
  • Utilize time management skills and ability to multitask (managing multiple responsibilities simultaneously, from classroom management, organization, grading, assessment, lesson plans, monitor engagement).
  • Ongoing assessment to drive instruction and identify student needs
  • Maintain records and confidentiality
  • Provide students and families with useful resources (within school and community)
  • Work independently and as an active member of a team and staff
  • Strength focused and student-centered approach
  • Ongoing professional development/Lifelong learner

Third Grade Teacher

Tempe School District; Laird Elementary
07.2005 - 06.2006
  • Reading First School

Third Grade Teacher

Ridgefield School District; South Ridge Elementary
08.1999 - 06.2005

Third Grade Teacher

San Leandro Unified School District; James Madison Elementary
09.1998 - 08.1999

Support Counselor

Christie School Residential Treatment Center
09.1994 - 06.1997
  • Participate in creating and providing a safe, supportive and therapeutic environment
  • Carry out behavior and treatment plans
  • Supervise residents throughout daily activities
  • Ensure safety of all residents
  • Collaborate with all colleagues to provide quality support and treatment
  • Help residents with the development of daily living and life skills
  • Provide emotional support
  • Active listening/Responsive
  • Monitor behavior at all times
  • Assist residents with conflict resolution
  • Assist residents in the development of self-regulation strategies/skills
  • Daily documentation of each resident's day
  • Maintain confidentiality
  • Build trusting, safe relationships
  • Supervise and engage in daily activities with residents

Education

Masters - Teaching

City University
Vancouver, WA

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Skills

  • Upholding confidentiality standards
  • Engagement
  • Effective relationship building
  • Strong interpersonal communication
  • Assessment
  • Proficient in managing multiple tasks
  • Documentation
  • Engaged listening
  • Culturally responsive
  • Effective advocacy
  • Intervention strategies
  • Work with diverse populations
  • Effective collaboration skills
  • Empathetic
  • Eagerness for professional development

Timeline

Preschool Teacher

Building Blocks Early Learning Center
02.2024 - Current

Adjunct Faculty

Aspen University
01.2014 - Current

Maricopa Unified School District
07.2006 - 06.2010

Third Grade Teacher

Tempe School District; Laird Elementary
07.2005 - 06.2006

Third Grade Teacher

Ridgefield School District; South Ridge Elementary
08.1999 - 06.2005

Third Grade Teacher

San Leandro Unified School District; James Madison Elementary
09.1998 - 08.1999

Support Counselor

Christie School Residential Treatment Center
09.1994 - 06.1997

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

University of Oregon

Masters - Teaching

City University

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