Krystyn Carey

• Lead initiatives to provide access to rigor for all students
• identify and provide services for students needing enrichment
• Cast vision and create school wide change
• Serve as a liaison between the community, the district and the school

Fairfax County Public Schools

• Team Lead for Third Grade- with peers, developed a detailed data-driven plan to remediate learning loss after the pandemic, which allowed students to recover 2 years of learning over the course of one academic year
• Led school wide professional development; mentored teachers in training
• Maintained the planning cycle and CLT agendas for Third Grade
• With colleagues, created a data-informed, targeted grade-level-wide differentiation plan to meet the needs of struggling and proficient writers
• Extensive work with students with special needs, including ASD and dyslexia
• Created an outdoor classroom and led outdoor education efforts
• Implemented curriculum to meet the needs of dyslexic and EL students missing phonemic awareness skills

Prince William County Public Schools

• Contributed to an award-winning School of Excellence staff for three years
• Welcomed many ASD and ED students into my classroom, creating an environment for them to thrive
• Co-taught Language Arts each day with my ESOL teacher, seeing consistent above average reading growth in students each year

Abu Dhabi Education Council, United Arab Emirates

• Sheikha Fatima Al Nahyan serving as my patron, proposed and oversaw construction of an outdoor classroom as a model for early years education reform and best practices
• Co-taught all subjects with local Arabic speaking teachers, and mentored staff in ESOL best practices, resulting in ALL students learning the basic English alphabet and sentence structure by the time they left class
• Participated in state-wide Education Reform initiatives, and represented my school at district meetings
• Led SIP committee meeting in English, with Arabic translation
• Conducted action research on multi-sensory ESOL best practices, using qualitative and quantitative research, and implemented school-wide changes in instruction based on the outcome
• Worked extensively with students with special needs, including autism and genetic disorders
• Worked with my school to promote early intervention

Portsmouth Public Schools

• Chaired second grade in Title 1 school
• Selected to participate in a district-wide targeted early-intervention program
• Helped create differentiated instructional practices and structures for second grade
• Set up an outdoor garden for the school, and implemented outdoor instruction
• Mentored new second grade teachers

• Collaborated with other second grade teachers in a private school environment, and taught one year of kindergarten
• Collaborated with colleagues to develop cross-curricular projects, fostering critical thinking skills and interdisciplinary learning.

• Worked with a team to meet educational needs of Iranian refugees in Cyprus and Turkey
• Assisted the Dutch Embassy in Istanbul in providing educational resources for Central Asian refugee children
• Developed high-performing teams, providing ongoing training and mentorship to improve performance.

• Mentored by my mother, a teacher with 40 years of education experience
• Promoted learning through play with engaging activities, games and lessons.
• Built positive relationships with students and families for safe, trusted learning support.