Elvia Diaz

Perform academic advising and coaching, mentoring, personal guidance, and advocacy, serving as consultant to student leaders and student organizations.

Collaborate with a wide variety of university offices and personnel to provide students with comprehensive services to engage them in the pursuit of academic excellence.

Organize culturally relevant events to help the community engage and embrace their roots foster, encourage, and embrace collaboration with different culture-oriented centers while working with a range of diverse population including LGBTQ+ students using intersectional approaches to support them. Supervise and guide mentors as professionals in training as they reach out to the target community including first-generation students, and underrepresented population.

Design, manage, teach coordinate, and recruit candidates to training courses for international certification in Language and in English Language Teaching (ICELT, TKT, IELTS, FCE, PET) online live and face to face in compliant with Cambridge’s high quality academic standards. Administer and proctor teacher and student’s certification exams.

• Perform detailed risk assessments to determine fiscal departmental constraints, develop strategic personnel professional growth plans, and coordinate professional development for project leaders.
• Plan, coordinate, and conduct curricular educator training. Provide leadership, guidance, and accountability for the department and maintain compliant budgets, personnel, schedules, and curricular frameworks.
• Develop long range multi-year strategic and inter-departmental professional development plans.
• Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.

• Develop curriculum to improve measurable learner outcomes.
• Negotiate bargaining unit agreements to clarify contractual language and lead conflict resolution contentious unit grievances.
• Organize and coordinate professional development and training.
• Design and implement educator evaluation instruments to ensure effective adherence to the standards of the teaching profession.
• Oversaw hiring processes, selecting top-tier candidates to join the department''s talented team of educators.
• Observed, coached and mentored department staff.
• Built smooth and productive working relations positively impacting department operations.
• Planned and executed professional development sessions for department faculty and staff.

• Develop and taught EFL curriculum to improve students' English Oral Language Skills.
• Teach mixed language ability student groups to enhance their receptive and productive language skills along using critical thinking strategies.
• Attend and develop workshops related to student motivation, interactive, engagement learning activities. Instruct students of various backgrounds and learning styles by employing a variety of instructional strategies, and instructional resources.
• Boosted test scores by conducting focused exam preparation workshops on grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.