Justin Smith
Fair Oaks,CA
Summary
Culturally responsive ELA teacher with five plus years of experience in primary, secondary, international, and youth detention education settings. Interested in exploring careers outside of compulsory education. I am very much interested in current events and would eventually like to work with the Slavic community and at the international level possibly helping Ukraine rebuild.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
English Teacher
Hiram Johnson High School
Sacramento
08.2022 - Current
- Direct instruction focused on reading comprehension strategies, identifying main idea and summary writing, and composition and rhetoric.
- Employ high impact strategies to engage students and process information like Kagan practices to facilitate: prereading, reading, and post reading activities while reinforcing social emotional practices.
- Collaborate within grade level professional learning communities to establish: guaranteed viable curriculum, scope and sequence, pacing plans, common formative assessments, and cocreate rubrics and proficiency scales.
- Implement supports so that all learners can access content and earn skill mastery via guided notes, sentence frames, cloze sentences and paragraphs, color coding, vocabulary building, model texts, and drawing.
- Yearbook advisor with working knowledge of Treering and teaching: feature story writing, interviewing practices, AP style writing, photography basics, graphic design, caption writing, and peer review.
Youth Detention Facility Substitute Teacher
Sacramento County Office of Education
Sacramento
04.2022 - Current
English Teacher
Cosumnes Oaks High School
Elk Grove
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Showcase racial and social justice content using representative material reflective of the student body populationional and literary texts, and foundational documents.
- Showcase racial and social justice content using representative material reflective of the student body population.
- Diction and literary analysis using TBEAR and TEAC paragraph formats and color coding.
- Employ a range of technologies utilizing built-in differentiation such as: Nearpod, NewsELA, Padlet, Answergarden, and Google Docs.
- Communicate regularly with caretakers, counselors, and administration about student progress and struggles.
Crew Member
Trader Joe's
East Sacramento
01.2007 - 01.2019
- Engage the customer, answer any questions, walk customer to item while creating a pleasant atmosphere.
- Offer timely check-out for customers, bagging groceries, and help them with missing items or assisting them to car.
- Track stock and back-stock and order product for next day shipment, preparing for any major holidays and sporting events.
- Train new crew members to operate cash register, provide customer service, order product, break down and stack pallets, work and rotate produce, be proactive and seek out tasks and follow safety and productivity standards.
Bureau Chief
United Reporting Publishing
Folsom
01.2008 - 01.2009
- Train and lead team of reporters to retrieve public records from public safety offices and submit them electronically.
- Design and draft Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA) and submit to public safety offices in order access arrest records.
- Initiate and build rapport with public safety officers in police and Sheriff's Departments and encourage them to send public records electronically.
- Write basic crime stories for website employing AP style writing and practices.
Education
Single Subject English Credential -
California State University of Sacramento
05.2019
Postbaccalaureate Studies in English -
California State University of Sacramento
05.2018
Bachelor of Arts in Government, Minor in Russian -
California State University of Sacramento
05.2005
Skills
- Community Building
- Flexible
- Collaboration
- Curriculum Development
- Organizational Skills
- Lesson Planning
- Microsoft Office
- AP Style
- Interviewing techniques
- Article Writing
- Copywriting and editing
- Project management abilities
- Digital Photography
- Copy Proofreading
- Graphic Design Knowledge
- Layout planning
Certification
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) 2.0, 3.0
- CPR Certification American Heart Association 2017
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification Alexandria, Egypt 2009.
Languages
Russian
Languages
Russian
Elementary
References
References available upon request.
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeImportant To Me
Company CulturePersonal development programsTimeline
English Teacher
Hiram Johnson High School
08.2022 - Current
Youth Detention Facility Substitute Teacher
Sacramento County Office of Education
04.2022 - Current
English Teacher
Cosumnes Oaks High School
08.2019 - 05.2021
Bureau Chief
United Reporting Publishing
01.2008 - 01.2009
Crew Member
Trader Joe's
01.2007 - 01.2019
Single Subject English Credential -
California State University of Sacramento
Postbaccalaureate Studies in English -
California State University of Sacramento
Bachelor of Arts in Government, Minor in Russian -
California State University of Sacramento
- Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) 2.0, 3.0
- CPR Certification American Heart Association 2017
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification Alexandria, Egypt 2009.
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