Highly experienced and passionate educator with a particularly diverse and deep skill set. Exceptionally skilled at building relationships with students, parents, and staff as well as mediating differences between others. Known as a "kid whisperer" not only for de-escalating skills, but overall long-term improvement with students that present with challenging behavioral patterns. Nationally Certified School Psychologist.
Worked for a highly diverse school district and performed all of the responsibilities of the position, including- case management and IEP development, evaluations, counseling, and crisis intervention. Other responsibilities included:
· Trained district mental health professionals in emergency assessment of potentially dangerous students
Training graduate students from Rutgers University
· Peer mediation club advisor at middle school level
· Developed FBA’s and BIP’s