JANYCE CARDENAS

• Managed Wilson middle school's community school initiative by providing coordination of school and community partnerships helping to promote a comprehensive approach to helping students succeed.

• Dramatically increased parent engagement helping them to better communicate with and become directly involved with school community.

• Recruited and managed volunteers to support community school programming.

• Built and sustained dozens of community partnerships.

• Facilitated collaboration of partnerships, volunteers, programming and school community.

• Managed and delivered programming to both students and their parents such as Homework Diner and ESL classes for parents.

• Maintained documentation of student, parent, and community participation. Created reports and met data entry deadlines.

• Helped to secure grants and funding for programming most notably for the School Health Advisory Council and Wildcat Blooms school garden.

• Conducted home visits, trainings & hosted Family Resource Center orientations at Wilson Middle School.
• Established strong rapport with parents and helped to establish a robust Spanish speaking parent organization that increased parent engagement at Wilson.
• Provided Family Supports to Wilson providing assistance to over 50 families combatting challenges to student success.
• Successfully balanced multiple projects and events supporting school activities & events.
• Diligently maintained records, documentation, tracked in-kind donations and fundraising efforts.

• Implemented and coordinated a high quality after school program and supplemental programs with full ADA and as high as 250 ADA.
• Developed and led staff trainings and served on multiple planning teams.
• Built relationships with parents by hosting parent meetings, workshops and parent led events.
• Integrated community organizations with extended day by hosting enriching programming, projects and cultural events.
• Developed schedules, lesson plans, and curriculum promoting safe learning spaces for students.
• Partnered with school admin, staff and teachers becoming fully integrated with the school.
• Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems

• Provided intensive tutorial services to high school students in their homes.
• Identified student needs, assessed progress and communicated them with parents.
• Helped students to develop study skills and achieving better understanding of specific subject.

• Contributed to production of half a dozen books regarding Latina/o artists by conducting research.
• Successfully balanced multiple projects.
• Established and maintained strong communication with several scholars and supervisors.

• Conducted research for curriculum development.
• Assisted professor in course preparation by completing online book orders, maintaining course websites, constructing course readers, organized class materials, meticulously recording attendance and grades.