Heather Beg
Port Orchard
Summary
- ELL Endorsement
- GLAD certified
- After-school Intervention Coordinator 2023
- Site Test Coordinator, 2022-23
- MTSS Committee Member, 2022
- Site Leadership Team, 2022
- PBIS Tier 2/3 Team Member, 2021
- Department and Collaborative Lead, 2021
- Constructing Meaning for Explicit Language Instruction Certified, 2019
- Teacher of the Year, Ray Street Academy, 2017
- National Board Certification, ELA (6-9), 2014
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
English Language Arts Support Teacher
Mountain View Middle School
08.2023 - Current
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Documented student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address academic challenges.
- Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one to meet needs of students using grade level standards.
- Collaborated with teachers to develop interdisciplinary units that connected multiple subjects, enhancing overall student understanding.
Academic Interventionist
Covington Elementary School
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Lead a LAP team of certified teachers and paraeducators.
- Worked with small groups of students to provide research based Tier II and Tier III interventions.
- Assisted classroom teachers in accommodating students and programs to verify compliance with IEPs and interventions.
- Observed teachers in classrooms and offered insights to enhance equity driven teaching-learning situations.
- Created and modeled intervention strategies to increase teacher capacity.
- Developed activities and strategies for improvement of instruction and student performance.
Success Coach
River Ridge Elementary School
08.2021 - 07.2022
- Supported teachers and students with engaging lessons, formative/summative assessments, and progression of units to increase student learning.
- Collaborated across grade levels for academic, behavioral, and social emotional domains.
- Implemented MTSS strategies school wide to foster a safe school environment.
- Appled various teaching models to reach students in a variety of modalities through intervention and enrichment.
- Oversaw district, state, and federal assessments to insure equity and security on our site.
Middle School Reading Intervention Teacher
Washington Middle School
08.2018 - 05.2021
- Executed effective small group instruction based on specific lexile levels to enhance reading and writing skills for struggling readers.
- Participated in multiple coaching cycles with site leadership, further enhancing the reflective practice.
- As site lead, developed long-term goals, units of practice, while incorporating enrichment and remediation across the curriculum.
- Attended multiple conferences focusing on RTI, summative and formative assessment.
- Integrated CM Program (Explicit Language Instruction) to all levels of the Read 180 Program.
- Engaged in Cross-Cultural and Language Development (CLAD) workshops to gain further knowledge to instruct English Learners.
Middle School Language Arts Teacher
Ray Street Academy
08.2015 - 05.2018
- Built strong relationships that foster personal and academic growth in an alternative school setting.
- Provided students with positive behavior strategies and progress monitoring methods to make them successful in stressful social and academic situations.
- Created and executed a Parent Academy that promoted parent involvement in our school and community as well as nurtures positive relationships at home.
- Led teachers in literacy, unit planning, and utilizing the Common Core State Standards in an effective, engaging way by being a Department Head.
- Selected Teacher of the Year by colleagues and members of the community.
Language Arts Teacher
Lake Stevens Middle School
08.2010 - 06.2015
- Promoted educational mastery by applying state standards to meaningful student work.
- Implemented Common Core State Standards in conjunction with rigorous lessons to create a purposeful content specific projects, assignments, and assessments.
- Conducted staff development using Common Core State Standards and Washington State Standards.
- Participated in numerous workshops surrounding Common Core State Standards, Socratic Seminar, and C.I.A Reading Strategies, GLAD Methods.
Language Arts Teacher
ACCLAIM Charter Academy
07.2008 - 06.2010
- Fostered academic growth, enhanced learning opportunities, and presented state standards in a vigorous educationally rich environment.
- Planned and organized English Language Learner family reading nights to support families in the community.
Language Arts Teacher
Desert Sands Middle School
08.2000 - 05.2008
- Educated and enlightened adolescent students in the categories of writing, reading, and grammar related skills with a predominantly English Language Learner population.
- Organized community sponsorships by creating volunteer opportunities for students through the Twenty First Century Grant.
Educational Counseling Internship
Desert Sands Middle School
08.2001 - 10.2001
- Performed the duties of a school counselor and acquired competencies needed for an effective school counseling program.
- Established and facilitated numerous support groups pertinent to teenage growth in the social, academic, and vocational domains.
- Coached staff members in discovering potential issues involving students.
Fifth Grade Teacher
John F. Long Elementary School
08.1998 - 05.2000
- Engaged children's learning through a core curriculum and developed a knowledge base for all content areas.
- Emphasizing on thematic units, centered learning on a literature-based program while utilizing all academics.
Education
Master of Arts - Educational Counseling
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZBachelor of Science - Elementary Education
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NMSkills
- National Board Certification, ELA 2029
- Washington State Professional Educator, Middle Level Humanities 2025
- Washington State Professional Educator, Elementary Education Endorsement 2025
- English Language Learner Endorsement (2025)
- California State Professional Educator, English K-12, 2026
- California Cross Cultural and Language Development Certificate, 2026
Leadership & Association
- Leadership Committee, Mountain View Middle School, 2024
- Instructional Leadership Team, Covington Elementary, 2022-2023
- Instructional Leadership Team, River Ridge Elementary, 2021-2022
- Site Coordinator, SBA, IRLA, I-Ready, WIDA, River Ridge Elementary, 2021-2022
- PBIS Tier 2/3 Team Member, Washington Middle School, 2020-2021
- Read 180 Steering Committee Member, Washington Middle School, 2018-2021
- Read 180 Collaborative and Department Facilitator, Washington Middle School, 2018-2021
- SEL Committee, Washington Middle School, 2019
- Response to Intervention Committee, Washington Middle School, 2018
- Teacher of the Year, Ray Street Academy 2017
- Teacher Leadership Academy Graduate, Alamance-Burlington School District 2017
- Grant Recipient for Impact Alamance 2017
- National Board Advocate, Lake Stevens Middle School, 2014-2015
- Apple Award Winner, Lake Stevens School District, 2014
- Common Core Transition Team Member, Lake Stevens School District, 2013-2015
- Snohomish Reading Council Member 2012-2015
- FOR Club Sponsor, Lake Stevens Middle School, 2012-2015
- YMCA Twenty First Century Grant Community Teacher, Desert Sands Middle School, 2006-2007
- Team Leader of a Core Content Group, Desert Sands Middle School, 2005-2006
- Project Success Counselor, Desert Sands Middle School 2001-2004
- Team Leader of a Core Content Group 2001-2002
Timeline
English Language Arts Support Teacher
Mountain View Middle School
08.2023 - Current
Academic Interventionist
Covington Elementary School
07.2022 - 06.2023
Success Coach
River Ridge Elementary School
08.2021 - 07.2022
Middle School Reading Intervention Teacher
Washington Middle School
08.2018 - 05.2021
Middle School Language Arts Teacher
Ray Street Academy
08.2015 - 05.2018
Language Arts Teacher
Lake Stevens Middle School
08.2010 - 06.2015
Language Arts Teacher
ACCLAIM Charter Academy
07.2008 - 06.2010
Educational Counseling Internship
Desert Sands Middle School
08.2001 - 10.2001
Language Arts Teacher
Desert Sands Middle School
08.2000 - 05.2008
Fifth Grade Teacher
John F. Long Elementary School
08.1998 - 05.2000
Master of Arts - Educational Counseling
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Elementary Education
New Mexico State University
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