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Kristina Chesnutt

Weatherford

Summary

Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Teacher

Westside Association Of Christian Home Educators
Ft. Worth, TX
08.2011 - Current
  • Developed and implemented individualized lesson plans to meet diverse learning needs.
  • Utilized various educational technologies to enhance classroom engagement and learning outcomes.
  • Taught a variety of subjects at the school, focusing on high school classes the past 5 years.
  • Assessed student progress regularly, keep up with grading and communication with the parents of students.

Teacher

VIPKID
San Francisco, CA
11.2019 - 10.2022

Taught English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) to students aged 4–12, developing personalized learning strategies for individual students.

Ensured seamless delivery of online lessons by proactively troubleshooting technical issues and adapting to varied student proficiency levels.

Developed a personal relationship with many of the students as there were many that I regularly taught for more than 2 years.

Owner/Graphic Designer

Hammock Creative Design
Mansfield
10.2005 - 01.2012
  • Developed innovative design concepts tailored to client specifications.
  • Managed project timelines and budgets to ensure on-time delivery.
  • Coordinated with clients to gather requirements and provide design solutions.
  • Oversaw production processes, ensuring quality control including proofreading and editing as needed.

Communications Specialist

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PILOTS’ ASSOCIATION
Dallas, Texas
02.2000 - 02.2005
  • In charge of the Association’s twice-monthly newsletter that provides the news in the union to the pilots of Southwest Airlines. Duties include covering quarterly board meetings and writing stories to go in the newsletter, writing stories on other activities of the Association, and taking photographs to go in the newsletter. Also in charge of layout and design, editing, coordinating contributed articles and letters, and working with the editorial board of the newsletter on issues.

Reporter

DFW COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
Lewisville, Texas
05.1999 - 02.2000
  • Write for the Lewisville Leader, a twice-weekly newspaper; The Colony Courier-Leader, the Coppell Gazette and the Little Elm Journal, all weekly newspapers. Duties included covering city government and police in The Colony, covering the county commissioners, court and business news for Denton County, as well as writing features for all newspapers. Also covered stories as needed for any of the newspapers.

Community Editor

THE WALTON TRIBUNE
Monroe, Georgia
12.1996 - 05.1999
  • Duties included covering Monroe City Council and Walton County Board of Education meetings, as well as other hard news and feature stories. Also in charge of paginating an average of five to 10 pages of the community section of the newspaper, which included layout and design, sizing photographs, writing headlines and editing copy. Fielded most incoming calls about articles and photographs submitted to the newspaper, including complaints and concerns. Operated the scanner station used to enter copy into the newspaper. Assisted editor with proofreading, page paste up and cutting photographs for the newspaper. Took own photographs to accompany stories.

Reporter

THE DAHLONEGA NUGGET
Dahlonega, Georgia
10.1995 - 12.1996
  • Duties included covering a variety of city and county government meetings, including city council, county commission and board of education. Also, covered a variety of other hard news and feature stories. Assisted editor in layout and proofreading, which included pasting paginated pages and final proofreading. Took own photographs to accompany stories.

Reporter

WARRICK PUBLISHING
Boonville, Indiana
02.1994 - 05.1995
  • Attended a variety of government meetings, including county council, board of commissioners, city council and board of education. Also, wrote a variety of feature stories about interesting people and activities in the community. Took own photographs to accompany stories, as well as developing and processing film and printing own photographs. Assisted editor with cut and paste method of assembling the newspaper, as well as proofreading final copy and assisting editor with writing headlines.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Journalism

University of Evansville
Evansville, Indiana
05-1992

High School Diploma -

William Henry Harrison
Evansville, IN
06-1988

Skills

  • Computer Literacy: Have many years of experience in using a myriad of computer software, a few of which includes Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe In Design, Photoshop and Canva
  • Writing - Have ability to write compelling, quality pieces that tell a story
  • Analytical problem-solving
  • Classroom management
  • Editing and Proofreading skills
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem-Solving
  • Project Management Tools
  • Strong Communication

Interests

Enjoy biking, hiking, reading, writing poetry and other short stories and volunteering for non-profit organizations Served on the steering committee and was team captain for the March of Dimes WalkAmerica event for four years Also served on the steering committee for fund-raising events for the American Cancer Society

Timeline

Teacher

VIPKID
11.2019 - 10.2022

Teacher

Westside Association Of Christian Home Educators
08.2011 - Current

Owner/Graphic Designer

Hammock Creative Design
10.2005 - 01.2012

Communications Specialist

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PILOTS’ ASSOCIATION
02.2000 - 02.2005

Reporter

DFW COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
05.1999 - 02.2000

Community Editor

THE WALTON TRIBUNE
12.1996 - 05.1999

Reporter

THE DAHLONEGA NUGGET
10.1995 - 12.1996

Reporter

WARRICK PUBLISHING
02.1994 - 05.1995

Bachelor of Science - Journalism

University of Evansville

High School Diploma -

William Henry Harrison