Gabriela Gonzalez
Visalia,CA
Summary
Dedicated professional with extensive experience at Visalia Unified School District, excelling in community outreach and proficient in data reporting. Demonstrated success in improving student attendance by 20% through effective home visits and parent liaison, showcasing strong communication skills and a commitment to student welfare.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
District Liaison
Visalia Unified School District
10.2021 - Current
- Assist McKinney Vento (Homeless students), Foster Youth with transportation to and from school. Maintained Caseload of Families to ensure the safety and well being of children.
- Monitor attendance, run attendance reports, conduct home visits regarding attendance.
- Coordinate and facilitate attendance meeting to discuss the barriers and the needs of the students and their family
- Serve as a communication link among school. home, and community agencies concerning the identification and needs of homeless students, foster youth and their families.
- Interpret for various parent teacher meetings including IEP, SST, and Parent teacher conferences.
- Assist parents and students in becoming self sufficient by offering techinical assistance and problem solving techniques.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
District Counseling Assistant
Visalia Unified School District
09.2021 - 06.2022
- Assist Migrant Students with recommendations ro course study based on analysis of files, transcripts, and conference with student and staff personnel
- Assist with Migrant students registration and course changes.
- Act as a liaison for college and career counseling with parents, schools, staff, and public during events
- Conduct presentations to groups of students regarding post-secondary career and college options: develop and provide follow-up material to teachers and staff after presentation
- Attend meetings, in-service trainings and community activities relevant to position.
- Perform a variety clerical duties, such as filing, word processing, and preparing reports.
- Prepare a variety of documents, reports (MSIN, CALPADS) for the purpose of communicating information to parents, and staff.
Paraprofessional
Visalia Unified School District
09.2020 - 09.2021
- Prepared instruction materials, constructed bulletin boards, and set up work areas.
- Kept classrooms clean, neat, and properly sanitized for student health and classroom efficiency.
- Monitored students on field trips, handling roll call, and group movement to keep youths safe in public settings.
- Tailored lesson plans for students with emotional and cognitive disabilities.
- Oversaw students in classroom and common areas to monitor, enforce rules, and support lead teacher.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Administered tests and assessments to evaluate student progress and performance.
- Collaborated with instructors to develop engaging lesson plans.
- Helped teacher prepare instructional material and displays.
- Enforced rules and instructions to maintain discipline.
- Supervised students in outdoor areas out of the classroom
Student Advocacy and Family Engagement Technician
Visalia Unified School District
08.2014 - 03.2020
- Assist students, staff, teachers, parents, and community members (e.g. applications for services, interpreting technical information) for the purpose of providing and/or conveying information and other services required by parents or teachers.
- Communication with parents on behalf of school(e.g. attendance and homework issues, available programs/services, completing paperwork, etc) for the purpose of ensuring that an ongoing partnership between the home and school is formed.
- Conduct home visits and parent meeting for the purpose of checking on truant students and gaining parental support in students educational and social development
- Recruit and help train volunteers
- Provide training for the District's University Program, School Smarts and Latino Literacy
- Prepare a variety of documents, reports and written materials (e.g. registrations, homeless lists, activity logs, phone logs, etc) for the purpose of communicating information to parents, staff; providing written support, developing recommendations and/or conveying information
- Assist with general clerical functions including preparations of instructional material
Education
Child Development
College of The Sequoias
Visalia, CAHigh School Diploma -
Orosi High School
Orosi, CA06-2002
Skills
- Home visits
- Community Outreach
- Attendance guidelines
- Parent liaison
- Computer Software Knowledge
- Reporting
- Bilingual (Spanish)
- Reliable
- Flexibility
- Fast learner
- Caseworker
- Work Ethic
Certification
Child development
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Software
Computer Software Knowledge
Timeline
District Liaison
Visalia Unified School District
10.2021 - Current
District Counseling Assistant
Visalia Unified School District
09.2021 - 06.2022
Paraprofessional
Visalia Unified School District
09.2020 - 09.2021
Student Advocacy and Family Engagement Technician
Visalia Unified School District
08.2014 - 03.2020
Child development
Child Development
College of The Sequoias
High School Diploma -
Orosi High School
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