Elisa Correa-Soto
Highland Mills,NY
Summary
Innovative administrator and devoted educator with demonstrated leadership abilities, problem solving, program development, recruitment, budgeting, and staffing experiences. Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, enthusiastic, visionary, objective, team builder, collaborative nature, results and goal oriented, and skill in making things happen.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Principal
Monroe-Woodbury High School
07.2022 - Current
- Motivated and experienced principal with a proven track record of driving student achievement and fostering a positive school culture
- Committed to educational excellence and dedicated to supporting the district's vision
- Responsible for the day-to-day operation of a 9-12 high school with 2,394 students and 250 faculty and staff
- Work with district leadership to forecast staffing needs and develop staffing plans
- Supervise and coordinate the evaluation process of all the employees in the High School
- Develop job postings, recruited candidates, and scheduled interviews to fill vacant positions
- Verify previous employers and other references to determine applicants' employment acceptability
- Ensure that all teachers are highly-qualified and have the appropriate credentials for assignments
- Adhere to procedures for recruitment, screening, interviewing, and hiring prospective employers
- Create, organized and maintained employee personal files to keep sensitive data secured
- Provide staff development
- School improvement planner
- Developing the leadership capacity of four assistant principals and one dean
- Support committees of staff and parents that function to improve learning and the social environment
- Improve and uphold our educational policies
- Meet regularly with union building representatives on faculty and staff related issues and interpretation of contract language
- Co-created benchmarks for students and teachers and tracked progress toward District goals
- Develop programs that improve teacher performance and assist students in understanding class material better
- Respond immediately to concerns from parents, district leadership teams, and school board members
- Supervise the scheduling, grading, budget, calendar, open houses, orientations, student activities, and PTA.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction
Newburgh Enlarged City School District
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Serve as overseer of the curriculum, act as an instructional leader of the district, and the primary evaluator of curricular coordinators, directors, and administrators
- Ensure the district/school educational objectives align with state frameworks and instructional practices that yield the highest standards of student achievement, instructional excellence, and community support in all subject areas
- Supervised k-12 principals, directors, and the curriculum work of coordinators
- Capacity builder of leaders and teachers to provide instructional programming that meets the needs of students
- Collaborated with Principals to oversee Title I, II, III, and Title IV grants while ensuring state and federal requirements compliance
- Oversaw the selection and evaluation of curriculum and materials
- Formulated annual instructional budget
- Reviewed staffing, enrollment information and personnel related expenses for the preliminary and annual budget reports
- Participate in the recruitment of personnel and recommended to the Superintendent certified and classified candidates on the basis of their qualifications for the particular position they are to fill in cooperation with building principals
- Monitored student enrollment projections and developed projections for staffing needs
- Monitored and approved in-district student transfers
- Guided schools around issues of bullying and cyberbullying
- Provided faculty and staff with meaningful professional development, including 6-12 plans for all faculty and staff during Superintendent Conference days
- Revised the District's Response to the Intervention Plan, Code of Conduct, and Guidance Plan
- Capacity builder within the District by training building administrators and teachers to analyze data
- Created an alternative high school for 9th and 10th graders to generate academic achievement and better student life outcomes.
Principal
Beacon High School
07.2018 - 07.2021
- Managed school operations and provided strong leadership to teachers and staff members
- I was active in the community and made myself available for parent consultations, taking parent suggestions and discussing the education needs of individual students
- Responsible for arranging major and minor building maintenance programs while ensuring every teacher has the resources to meet the state's curriculum requirements
- School operations management
- Curriculum development
- Staff development
- School improvement planner
- Responsible for the day-to-day operation of a 9-12 high school with 923 students
- Supported committees of staff and parents that function to improve learning and the social environment
- Upheld our educational policies and integrated the Common Core guidelines into each class curriculum
- Fostered an equitable, culturally responsive, and inclusive school environment
- Created benchmarks for students and teachers and tracked progress toward those goals
- I cultivated a collaborative community and designed an action plan to implement a new program (CCS - Content Core with Support) for all 'at-risk' students
- Developed programs that improve teacher performance and assist students in understanding class material better
- Guided the school's network of student leaders and challenged those leaders to make the school a better place
- Responded immediately to concerns from parents, executive leadership team, and school board members
- Supervised the scheduling, grading, budget, calendar, open houses, orientations, student activities, and PTA.
Assistant Principal
Monroe-Woodbury High School
07.2010 - 07.2018
- Specific responsibility for directing assigned programs and services at the high school, providing information and services as a resource to others; direct supervisor of staff
- Direct after-school activities for ENL, AIS general, and special education populations
- Worked closely with the principal daily to ensure the smooth overall operation of the school
- Supported committees of staff and parents that function to improve learning and the social environment
- Created the master schedule yearly
- Testing administrator for all New York State Regents exams, NYSESLAT, AP College Board exams, quarterly and final exams, and S.T.A.R
- Testing
- Assisted in yearly evaluations and guided teachers, school counselors, and psychologists
- Analyzed data to develop goals and improve student achievement
- Implemented an after-school homework club for ENL students
- Community liaison for families of ENL students; gave presentations in Spanish at local churches discussing resources available to them
- Reorganized the Program of Studies handbook to adhere to the new NYSED Common Core changes and provide students with many learning opportunities
- Excellent rapport with students, parents, and staff.
House Principal
Middletown High School
10.2008 - 07.2010
- Focused on responding to students' academic and social-emotional development
- Provided all students with the knowledge and skills to take responsibility for their lives, address life's challenges, function successfully at all levels of society, and be creators of knowledge
- Supported the executive principal, staff, students, and parents in advancing teaching and learning
- Supported school counselors and met with them weekly to discuss student data in the context of progress, ultimately reducing the number of freshmen repeaters
- Analyzed data to develop goals and improve student achievement
- Monitored attendance and communicated with home-school attendance liaisons to ensure that calls and home visits were made to students' parents whose children were late/absent from school
- Assisted the Executive Principal and Department Chairpersons in ensuring an increase in the percentage of students performing at levels 3 and 4 in ELA, math, social studies, science, and foreign language NYS Regents exams
- Middletown High School achieved AYP in 2008-09 and 2009-10
- Inspired all community stakeholders in a shared responsibility for student and school success
- Coordinated internship experiences for 35 students.
School counselor
Middletown High School
10.2005 - 10.2008
- Dedicated high school counselor who effectively worked with children with special needs and diverse populations
- Guidance Curriculum - classroom guidance lessons, career awareness, conflict resolution, social skills, developmental awareness, student assessments, placement, scheduling, new student transition, and academic career advice
- Responsive Services - mental health, family and teacher counseling, crisis intervention and grief management, psycho-educational support group
- Program Evaluation - assigned programs per the needs of students
- Developed and monitored appropriate student support based on the data analysis team and House Principals
- Advocated for special education students while attending CSE meetings; monitored students' progress to ensure their IEP was implemented to the fullest extent
- Chaired 504 meetings
- Scheduled college visitations and assisted in Financial Aid Night
- Organized B.O.C.E.S
- Student and parent informational meetings
- Supported Home-School Liaisons to lower absenteeism, potential dropout, and other at-risk behaviors
- Appropriately placed ENL and AIS students into their respective programs
- Diligently assisted in data reporting for the NYS Education Department
- Assisted in the development of the District's Guidance Plan
- Revised the Program Course Offerings Guide for 2007, 2008, and 2009 school years
- Assisted in constructing the 2007-2008 Master Schedule
- Guest speaker for the B.O.C.E.S
- B.E.T.A.C
- Second Language and ESL Workshop
- Revised senior exit/interview and guidance services surveys.
Spanish Teacher
Washingtonville High School
09.2003 - 10.2005
- Taught Spanish classes with 25-35 students, engaging their curiosity and research abilities in structured classroom activities
- Provided study guides and projects for Spanish language courses, including Spanish-American studies, global issues, world geography, and current events
- Gathered resources as supplemental materials with assigned texts to give students a richer experience learning a new language
- Taught AP Spanish grammar courses in partnership with Albany State University
- Taught Spanish levels II and III.
Spanish Teacher
NYC Board of Education - M.S. 115
09.1993 - 11.1995
- Helped students build on the fundamentals they learned in elementary school and prepared them for the difficult curriculum in high school
- Taught Spanish to Middle School students in grades 6-8
- Taught English as a Second Language
- Identified students' individual needs and enhanced curriculum to accommodate different learning styles
- Encouraged parent involvement through frequent written and verbal communication
- Created an Advisory Program
- I applied for and received a $35,000.00 grant to integrate technology into the curriculum.
Education
CAS, Educational Administration - Educational Administration
➢ Long Island University
1University Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 488-101 05.2001 -
Master of Science - School Counseling
College of New Rochelle, The
New Rochelle, NY 05.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish Literature
Lehman College of The City University of New York
The Bronx, NY 05.2001 -
Doctoral Candidate - Educational Leadership
William Woods University
Fulton, MO 05.2001 -
Skills
Interviewing
Audit preparation and reporting
Union grievance resolution
Project Management
Superb interpersonal skills
Accounting and finance
Superior verbal and written communication skills
Calm under pressure
Analytical and strategic thinker
Program evaluation
Operations management
Community-based planning
Proposal writing
Crisis communication
Affiliations
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- New York State Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents
Education Credentials
- William Woods University, Doctoral Candidate
- Long Island University, CAS in Educational Administration
- College of New Rochelle, M.S. in School Counseling
- Lehman College, B. A. in Spanish Literature & Caribbean Studies
References
- Mrs. Elsie Rodriguez, Superintendent of Schools, Monroe Woodbury Central School District, 78 Route 32, Central Valley, NY, 10917, (845) 460-6200, (845) 324-8162
- Dr. Eric Hassler, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Monroe Woodbury Central School District, 78 Route 32, Central Valley, NY, 10917, (845) 460-6200, (845) 774-6795
- Dr. Roberto Padilla, Superintendent of Schools, NYCDOE, 269 West 35th Street Room 702, New York, NY, 10024, (646) 228-6829
- Dr. Matthew Landahl, Superintendent of Schools, Beacon City School District, 10 Education Drive, Beacon, New York, 12508, (845) 838-6900, (845) 372-2286
- Mr. Erik Wright, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Yonkers Public Schools, 1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, New York, 10701, (914) 376-8000, (646) 938-6074
Training
- Fiscal Navigation for Superintendents Workshop Series
- APPR Teacher Evaluator Training
- Learning by Lincoln
- Root Cause Analysis
- 21 Century Skills
- Literacy Training at Lesley University
- Understanding by Design
- Master Scheduling Workshop
- UCLA Training for ESL Students
- Violence Prevention Workshop
- Training in identification and reporting of child abuse
Certification
School District Administrator-Permenant Certification
Timeline
Principal
Monroe-Woodbury High School
07.2022 - Current
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction
Newburgh Enlarged City School District
07.2021 - 07.2022
Principal
Beacon High School
07.2018 - 07.2021
Assistant Principal
Monroe-Woodbury High School
07.2010 - 07.2018
House Principal
Middletown High School
10.2008 - 07.2010
School counselor
Middletown High School
10.2005 - 10.2008
Spanish Teacher
Washingtonville High School
09.2003 - 10.2005
CAS, Educational Administration - Educational Administration
➢ Long Island University
05.2001 -
Master of Science - School Counseling
College of New Rochelle, The
05.2001 -
Bachelor of Arts - Spanish Literature
Lehman College of The City University of New York
05.2001 -
Doctoral Candidate - Educational Leadership
William Woods University
05.2001 -
Spanish Teacher
NYC Board of Education - M.S. 115
09.1993 - 11.1995