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Dr. Lauren Woodward

Educational Leadership, Program Management, And Curriculum Development
Fort Myers,FL

Summary

Highly innovative and performance-focused leader with substantial experience facilitating institutions with over 200 staff members and 1800 students, in achieving short and long-term targets through successful execution of academic performance improvement and curriculum design initiatives and developments, within competitive environments. Recruited, hired, and trained, over 50% of staff and had a 98% retention rate over a 5 year period. Capability of planning, coordinating, and supervising productive educational programs across primary, secondary, and higher-education settings. Instrumental in curriculum design and development, and delivering comprehensive methods, strategies, and reports to staff regarding academic gaps and plans of action. Expert in delivering quality guidance and direction to students from diverse backgrounds. Articulate communicator equipped with strong interpersonal skills in cultivating productive relationships with students, teachers, and parents. Technically advanced in utilizing industry standard solutions to deliver on-campus as well as online lectures and presentations for over 250 attendees.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education

Work History

Manager, Evaluation Faculty, Teachers College

Western Governors University
06.2022 - Current
  • Create, manage, recruit, train, and support the Educational Leadership Department, within the Teachers College of WGU
  • Designed and developed course content,
  • Hiring and training staff over 30 staff members,
  • Conducting annual performance reviews for over 30 staff members that met achieves or higher,
  • Managing professional development,
  • Setting team initiatives and goals,
  • Assisting with resolution of student concerns and providing intervention plans,
  • Data analysis,
  • Providing strategic leadership to improve programs and services to support students, instructors, and coaches.
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals
  • Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades
  • Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department
  • Monitored expenditures to mitigate risk of overages
  • Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation

Student Teacher Supervisor & Adjunct Instructor

Liberty University
12.2021 - Current
  • Teach three graduate level courses and oversee and manage field placement for student teachers
  • Oversee and manage 20 cooperating teachers and 20+ on-site supervisors
  • Facilitate all aspects of implementing, instructing, and grading of online curriculum for Master of Education in Leadership program
  • Mentor students in the Leadership cohort
  • Write and evaluate effectiveness of current curriculum for three graduate courses
  • Creates, distributes, and reviews course syllabus
  • Utilizes variety of instructional strategies in order to engage students, including cooperative and experiential learning
  • Meets with academic department chair to develop courseware and curriculum
  • Presents prepared materials and supervises organized activities
  • Evaluates student performance promptly and accurately based on departmental rubrics
  • Coordinates with college or university bookstore in order to ensure class material availability
  • Maintains records of student attendance, involvement, and progress
  • Teaches assigned class material in accordance with learning objectives that are developed by the department
  • Communicates with students outside of class to provide supplementary instruction, when necessary
  • Participates in faculty meetings involving departmental updates
  • Surveys students in order to obtain information about their wants and needs in certain courses

edTPA Evaluator

Western Governors University
01.2021 - 06.2022
  • An edTPA subject matter expert tasked with reviewing student assessment submissions in a fair and unbiased manner to determine if competency has been demonstrated in a specific course. A

Assistant Principal of Curriculum

Immokalee Middle School
Immokalee, FL
07.2017 - 06.2022
  • Recruited, hired, and trained over 100 staff members and maintained 98% retention rate over a five-year period
  • Designed and developed curriculums and course content for core subject areas and the ELL program
  • Program management of 1800+ student population and 200 staff members at a school and enacted robust systems of support for improving instruction process, student monitoring, and socio-emotional learning
  • Serve as liaison between school and community by developing strategic partnerships with stakeholders, including Harry Chapin Food Bank, Collier Harvest Food Bank, and more support programs to enable fulfillment of community and school needs
  • Supported development of Academic Vital Statistics (AVS), school-wide initiative to lead students towards healthy lifestyle of checking grades
  • Delivered quality support for execution of 1:1 technology initiative for 1800 students and 165 staff that delivered results beyond expectations
  • Played vital role in lowering course failures by 50% in last year for grades 6 and 7 through school-wide initiative
  • Prepared and enacted monthly professional development sessions for staff in terms of professional technological instructional seminars
  • E-learning content creation
  • Learning management system
  • Hired over 50% of staff and handled human resources and personnel issues

Assistant Principal

Lely High School
Naples, FL
07.2016 - 07.2017
  • Leveraged educational field expertise to facilitate development of highly effective positive behavior intervention and support programs
  • Enabled establishment of Professional Learning Communities school-wide and prepared PLC document for staff to utilize in team meetings
  • Examined student strengths, instructional needs, trends, and existing barriers
  • Ascertained research-based instructional strategies to close achievement gaps in conjunction with staff
  • Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with PLC groups to analyze and disaggregate benchmark/testing data through the lens of student mastery and achievement for all student groups, including subgroups.

Assistant Principal

Carver College and Career Academy
Chester, VA
07.2014 - 12.2016
  • Created and designed career and technical curriculums for each of the 4 academies and course content that was individualized and tailored to meet student interests and needs
  • Organized meetings with keen focus on collating concerns raised by staff members regarding initiatives and educated employees over associated aims/objectives to establish trust and maintain long-lasting relationships with personnel, resulting in increased participation by staff
  • Transformed school’s overall administration procedures to involve student’s participation in academic and extracurricular activities and elevate individual/collective achievement and dependability; increased student attendance and retention by 85%
  • Nurtured success in end-to-end school workflow by creating and promoting high-energy, engaging, and positive class climate for over 500 students and 65 staff members
  • Concentrated on developing cognitive capacity of associated students through keen participation in lessons and activities
  • Created atmosphere of excitement to trigger student motivation and effort aimed at strong academic performances
  • Emphasized highly effective teaching methodologies to successfully build deep and sustained understanding of content for students with different capabilities.
  • Increased graduation rate from 50% to 90%

Assistant Principal

Albert Hill Middle School
Richmond, VA
07.2012 - 07.2014
  • Collated data, including SOL results, formative/summative assessments/benchmarks, and Edmentum modules
  • Reviewed and segregated benchmark/testing data through the lens of student mastery and achievement for all student groups, including subgroups for over 500 students and 100 staff members
  • Implemented regulation that allowed enrollment of students in Geometry classes falling in specified criteria, passing exams of Algebra courses previously
  • Introduced pragmatic knowledge in different lessons to elevate student engagement during the lecture
  • Deployed county assigned math coach to design instructions to assure alignment of curriculum and initiated Edmentum diagnostic assessment to evaluate students’ performance
  • Collaborated with VCU Autism Center for Excellence Coordinator and created and designed a Healthy Relationships curriculum and program for over 100 female students
  • Devised and steered social skills program at the Middle School level based on a modified “Peers” curriculum as well as “Navigating the Social World” curriculum
  • Partnered with leadership team, faculty members, and coaches to ensure the availability of professional developments, training, and strategies leading towards accomplishment of collective goals
  • Delivered Geometry SOL pass rate of 87.5% accreditation pass rate of 97.88% that demonstrated attainment of strategic objectives
  • Led school to achieve certification, while lowering discipline referrals from 1700 to 700 through community and parent involvement.

Summer School Principal

Binford Middle School
Richmond, VA
06.2013 - 07.2013
  • Delegated faculty task of developing a professional development session based on the Understanding by Design model aimed at coaching staff over ways to develop units that reflected the UbD framework geared towards improved academic progress
  • Coached and mentored staff to frame the curriculum objective goals in a manner that reflects understanding focused on creating awareness of motto for learning and ensuring transfer of knowledge institute-wide
  • Played anchor role in facilitating staff to complete UbD training and transition into Kansas SIM and Framing methods that originated from the UbD framework
  • Increased passed rates by 20% for History SOL results in 2014-2015.

Education

Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership

Liberty University

Educational Specialist Degree - Educational Leadership

Liberty University

Masters of Education - Administration and Supervision

Liberty University

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Virginia Commonwealth University

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University of North Carolina, John Tyler Community College
08.2007 - 12.2007

Special Education Teacher Certification - undefined

01.2007 - 07.2007

B.A. - undefined

Randolph-Macon College

Skills

Curriculum Developmentundefined

Software

Blackboard, O365, Salesforce, Cognos, PowerBi, FOCUS, Canvas, Position Control, Microsoft, Google Platform, EMA, Edmentum, Edmodo, Hapara, Google Classroom, iObservation, Synergy, Workday, Skills

Timeline

Manager, Evaluation Faculty, Teachers College

Western Governors University
06.2022 - Current

Student Teacher Supervisor & Adjunct Instructor

Liberty University
12.2021 - Current

edTPA Evaluator

Western Governors University
01.2021 - 06.2022

Assistant Principal of Curriculum

Immokalee Middle School
07.2017 - 06.2022

Assistant Principal

Lely High School
07.2016 - 07.2017

Assistant Principal

Carver College and Career Academy
07.2014 - 12.2016

Summer School Principal

Binford Middle School
06.2013 - 07.2013

Assistant Principal

Albert Hill Middle School
07.2012 - 07.2014

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University of North Carolina, John Tyler Community College
08.2007 - 12.2007

Special Education Teacher Certification - undefined

01.2007 - 07.2007

Doctor of Education - Educational Leadership

Liberty University

Educational Specialist Degree - Educational Leadership

Liberty University

Masters of Education - Administration and Supervision

Liberty University

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Virginia Commonwealth University

B.A. - undefined

Randolph-Macon College

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