Jane E. Walker

• Oversaw entire operations for 100-student Nursery School, including budget, marketing and curriculum development.
• Responsible for managing a staff of 11 teachers, and coordinating all admissions and enrollment systems for the school.
• Ensured that all state regulatory mandates were satisfied, and successfully led the school through the NAEYC accreditation process.
• Planned and executed monthly staff meetings and monthly Professional Development seminars for staff and Parent Education workshops for parents.
• Served as consistent school and community resource, which enabled development of lasting relationships with students, parents, guardians and church leadership.
• Evaluated programs and monitored implementation and compliance with regulations to achieve objectives.
• Developed partnerships with parents, businesses and organizations to build awareness, increase support and share resources.
• Maintained program files, records, databases and websites to gather research and prepare and submit compliance reports.
• Monitored overhead, prepared budgets and directed spending and resources to support fiscal efficiency.

• Worked with lead teacher to design lesson plans and coordinate activities for classes, consistently noting successful ideas and identifying areas for improvement.
• Trained all parents who worked in the classroom at this cooperative preschool. Instructed them in the areas of social emotional development, appropriate communication delivery, emergent curriculum and best practices.
• Delivered group teaching in classroom setting and implemented individual student support.
• Aligned instructional approaches with development levels of students to enhance individual learning.

• Planned and implemented exciting and engaging activities to achieve student participation and hands-on learning.
• Communicated frequently with parents, students and faculty to provide feedback and discuss curriculum goals and implementation strategies.
• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
• Reviewed curriculum and devised alternate approaches to presenting lessons to increase student engagement.
• Held conferences with parents to address questions, discuss developmental progress and encourage participation.
• Incorporated multiple types of teaching strategies into classroom.
• Fostered team collaboration between students through group projects.

• Applied play-based strategies, including crafts and games, stories and large motor activities to provide diverse approaches to learning.
• Worked closely with caregivers in this Parent and Me class.
• Observed children to identify individuals in need of additional support and developed strategies to help achieve optimal development.
• Promoted sensory development by providing access to different textures.
• Implemented curriculum to enhance classes with social-emotional-focused activities.
• Assessed toddlers against established early childhood developmental milestones, preparing regular progress reports for each child.

• Delivered structured bilingual lessons on readiness skills by emphasizing phonics, language skills, literature and handwriting.
• Played games with students to increase understanding of subjects. Games and activities were carried out in both English and Spanish.
• Observed and assessed student performance and charted progress.
• Arranged parent-teacher conferences to address student progress and collaboratively set goals for areas of improvement.
• Introduced read-aloud literature in both English and Spanish to stimulate imagination and build comprehension and vocabulary.
• Exercised good classroom management focused on positive behavior support by clearly articulating fair and consistent expectations along with appropriate natural consequences.

Managed and trained a team of 5 cosmetics salespersons at this high volume department store. Consistently met and exceeded monthly sales goals.

• Trained new employees on proper protocols and customer service standards.
• Planned and executed counter-based events that helped to promote the brand within the store.