Jessica Luquis Pineiro

Special Education teacher with 23 years of experience in different settings, grades, and diverse populations. Worked as a resource teacher, instructional classes teacher, bilingual instructional teacher in Math, Science, Social Studies, and Reading and Language Arts, and co-teacher. The focus is on students' needs and providing the support and differentiation required in class to promote students' success. Proficient in delivering interventions inside the general education classroom. Extensive experience creating individualized educational programs focused on students' needs and required services. Works well with classroom teachers to develop accommodations and unique techniques for mainstream classroom inclusion. Strong organizational skills and hard work.

JW Eater Junior High School

MTSS Committee (2022-2024)

• Analyze data concerning grades, behaviors and equity.
• Organize schoolwide and classroom interventions.

District Instructional Advisory Committee (2021-2024)

• Collaborate in the selection and evaluation of curriculums to be implement in schools.
• Identify instructional needs in the school and share it with the committee.

School Improvement Committee (2022-2023)

• Collaborate with administration in the creation of the school improvement plan,
• Search for research based strategies to be added in the school improvement plan according to the school needs to be addressed.
• Create surveys and documents to gather information
• Collaborate in the evaluation of the school improvement plan effectiveness.

District Leadership Committee (2021-2022)

• Collaborate with the district and school administration to identify needs and ways to address them.

Team Facilitator (2019-2020)

• Collaborate with the building administration team, initiate a sense of team and improve communication between building administration and teachers,
• Planned and organize team meetings to increase sense of team by increasing the team participation on developing action plans to increase student engagement.
• Provide support to teachers to increase students learning.

Luis Pales Matos (Puerto Rico Department of Education)

State Assessment Coordinator (2013-2016)

• Planned and present professional development about state assessment expectations, reviews and organization to promote student engagement in the assessment.
• Organize effectively the implementation of a plan to fulfill the expectations given by the Department of Education to administer the state assessment.
• Create and present documents to administration to demonstrate evidence of expectation fulfillment.
• Collaborate with administration before, during and after the assessment process.
• Responsible for the materials needed for the implementation of the state assessment.

Rantoul City Schools

JW Eater Junior High School  (2016- present)

• Special Education Co-Teacher for Math and Reading and Language Arts.
• Special Education Instructional Math teacher
• Special Education Bilingual Instructional Teacher (Reading, Math, Social Studies and Science)
• Tutoring students in after school program

Puerto Rico Department of Education

Luis Pales Matos School  (2011-2016)

• Special Education Resource teacher from 7th to 12 grade.

Josefina Barcelo High School (2008-2011)

• Special Education Resource teacher from 10th to 12 grade.

Noel Estrada Elementary School (2007-2008)

• Special Education Resource teacher from 3rd to 6th grade.

Jose M. Torres Elementary School (2006-2007)

• Special Education Resource teacher from K to 3rd grade.

Andres C. Gonzalez Elementary School (2004-2006)

• Special Education Resource teacher from K to 3rd grade.

Psychopedagogical Institute of Puerto Rico (2001-2004)

• Life Skills Special Education Teacher

• Cooperative and Interactive Learning

           -UDL1: A Framework for Addressing Learner Variability: Theory Into Practice (2023)

           - iReady Reading: Tailored Support Webinar (2021)

• Student Motivation and Engagement

            - Equity Vision (2022)

            - Developing an Equity Focused Vision (2022)

           - Supporting Emergent Bilinguals (2020)

           - Trauma Informed Practices (2019)

           - Moving Toward Racial Equity (2019)

           - Increasing Student Engagement (2019)

           - Developing Social Emotional Learning Skills in Classrooms

• Classroom Management

            - Conscious Discipline (2019)

            - Circles of Power and Respect; Using CPR to Improve School Climate. (2019)

• Student Centered Learning and Assessment

        - The Reading Teacher Top 10 Tools (2021)

         -Comprehension Strategies Across the Content Areas (2021)

• Teaching Student with Disabilities

         - Susan Hentz Co-Teaching Seminar (2021)

         - Introduction to Co- Teaching (2021)

         - Co-Teaching: Specially Designed Instruction and Co-Planning (2021)

         - Co-Teaching: Co-Planning in Action (2021)

         - Co-Teaching: Co-Assisting and Co-Classroom Management (2021)

         - Understanding Instructional Strategies that are Supported by Autism Spectrum Disorder Neurological Research (2020)

         - FBA/BIP (2019)

         - IEP Training (2019)

• Book Studies that I have participated in

        *The Educator's Handbook for Inclusive School Practices by Julie Causton & Chelsea P. Tracy-Bronson

       * Specially Designed Instruction for Co-Teaching by Marilyn Friend, Ph.D. & Tammy Barron Ph.D

       * Do I Really Have to Teaching Reading? by Cris Tovani

       * Hacking School Discipline by Maynard & Weinstein

       * The Successful Middle School by Bishop & Harrison

Scott Woods, Superintendent, Rantoul City Schools District 137 (217) 893-5400

Heather Jacobs, Principal, JW Eater Junior High School, (217) 893- 5401

Tracy Bryant, Instructional Coach, JW Eater Junior High School, (217) 893-5401