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Leah Lloyd-Jones

Hernando,FL
Leah Lloyd-Jones

Summary

Compassionate, creative, and effective educator with a passion and proven record of helping others succeed.

Versatile professional with valuable experience in case management, supervising, counseling, mentoring, marketing, sales, customer service, and caregiving.

Detail-oriented self-starter who desires to share her gifts with the right group of people.

Overview

19
years of professional experience

Work History

Trades Of Hope

Compassionate Entrepreneur
01.2017 - Current

Job overview

  • Empowered families around the world out of poverty, trafficking, and abuse by marketing and selling their hand-crafted, fair-trade pieces.
  • Performed effectively in a self-directed work environment, managing day-to-day operations and decisions in my own business.
  • Increased network size by actively prospecting and engaging with potential clients through social media, phone calls, and in-person meetings.
  • Developed a strong personal brand for increased credibility and trust with potential clients, utilizing online platforms and face-to-face interactions.
  • Generated leads by attending vendor events and fostering relationships with industry professionals.
  • Boosted sales through effective presentation of product benefits and tailored recommendations to meet individual client needs.
  • Empowered team members to achieve their goals by offering mentorship, guidance, and support throughout their network marketing journey.
  • Reduced customer churn rates by providing exceptional customer service and promptly addressing client concerns or questions.
  • Coached hostesses towards successful, fun parties for their friends where they could all explore the product and the mission.
  • Updated social media platforms with the latest news and corporate details- authentically writing posts, creating reels, doing lives, and running online parties.
  • Created and managed an online community around the missional business via a Facebook group.
  • Built business to 200+ customers by implementing effective marketing and customer engagement plans.

America's Angels

Preschool Teacher
01.2022 - 07.2023

Job overview

    • Promoted from teacher's assistant in the three-year-old's room to lead teacher in the two-year-old's room.
    • Provided excellent care to 12 two-year-olds in the morning and engaged children from infant to 12 years old in the afternoon.
    • Created mid-year and year-end portfolios of the children's work to showcase their progress.
    • Enhanced student reading skills by implementing engaging literacy activities and utilizing age-appropriate books.
    • Assessed each student's abilities, tailoring instruction to meet individual needs and learning styles.
    • Boosted children's social development by promoting positive interactions among peers through group activities and collaborative projects.
    • Ensured a safe and nurturing environment for all students, adhering to health and safety guidelines in the classroom.
    • Designed creative lesson plans that incorporated hands-on activities and interactive learning experiences to foster curiosity and engagement in young learners.
    • Contributed to the successful implementation of school-wide initiatives by collaborating with colleagues on curriculum development, professional development, and other projects.
    • Supervised multiple field trips during the year and weekly field trips during the summer.
    • Implemented differentiated instruction techniques to accommodate diverse learning needs within the classroom setting without sacrificing the overall quality of education provided to all students.

Seven Rivers Christian School

Upper School English Teacher
08.2014 - 06.2018

Job overview

  • Developed dynamic, engaging lesson plans for my 7th grade, 8th grade, and 9th grade students.
  • Monitored student progress and provided feedback to both students and parents.
  • Assisted struggling students through targeted interventions, leading to increased academic success.
  • Built a variety of formative and summative assessments to measure student progress.
  • Improved classroom management by implementing consistent routines and clear expectations for behavior.
  • Increased student motivation by providing timely feedback and recognizing individual achievements.
  • Served as a small group leader for the 9th-grade girls, contributing to the overall development of well-rounded students.
  • Encouraged a love for literature, grammar, research, and writing in my students.
  • Served as a coach on the intramural soccer team.
  • Chosen to sing and speak in chapel.
  • Directed the school's play.
  • Assisted the school advisor in counseling sessions with students (grades 9-12) to determine their academic goals and progress toward those goals.
  • Provided guidance and mentoring to students regarding academic, social, and emotional issues.

Covenant Children's Home

Teacher
06.2011 - 06.2014

Job overview

    • Coordinated with Education Team to establish Covenant Christian Academy, a private, Christian K-8 school to serve the children of Covenant Children's Home, starting with a one-room schoolhouse model
    • Envisioned, designed, budgeted for, purchased materials for, and set up the physical layout of the first classroom
    • Developed and taught own Bible curriculum to supplement other curriculum
    • Researched, chose, organized, and implemented the school's curriculum according to the individual needs of the students
    • Designed school calendar, school day schedule, and other policy in accordance with Florida law
    • Integrated biblical principles and a Christ-centered philosophy of education throughout the curriculum and activities
    • Provided individualized and group instruction, planning for and teaching all core academic subjects for grades 4, 5, 6, and 7, except for science, where another teacher led
    • Periodically provided temporary instruction to other short-term students who ranged from the 1st to 8th grade
    • Administered out-of-school suspension supervision and tutoring for children from the home who were in public high school
    • Planned and executed the balanced classroom use of field trips, guest speakers, and other media
    • Maintained excellent, detailed, and timely lesson plans, records, and progress reports
    • Served as CCH's educational liaison, forging relationships with and communicating effectively with the children's parents, DCF staff, case managers, guardian ad litems, therapists, previous school administrators and teachers, etc.
    • Prepared students for and administered Stanford 10 Standardized Testing and ensured they got other standardized assessments per need
    • Chosen to research potential school scholarships for our students and to speak several times at major fundraising events for the ministry
    • Performed testing of students' preferred learning style modalities to guide teaching style
    • Integrated auditory, visual, and kinesthetic teaching methods into most lessons
    • Incorporated homeschooled children into our classroom for periodic supplemental literature/acting classes
    • Interfaced with public schools to receive and give cumulative files of students entering and exiting our school
    • Recruited, screened, coordinated, and supervised volunteer tutors for children in various subjects
    • Communicated weekly with children's home house parents and executive director about the academic, spiritual, and emotional state of each child
    • Facilitated any necessary “behavioral” meetings and led the process of goal setting for each child
    • Utilized public school IEP's to inform and direct appropriate modifications both inside and outside of the classroom
    • Created/modified and used integrated unit studies that were literature-based and historically rich
    • 11 classic books were read out loud in the classroom, and students read 22 books outside of school, not including their own pleasure reading.

Covenant Children's Home

Relief House Parent
06.2011 - 06.2014

Job overview

    • Provided parental care, leadership, and spiritual guidance to troubled children in the foster care system ranging in age from 2 to 17
    • Worked alone on shifts with up to 7 children
    • Supplied respite for full-time house parents on select weeknights, weekends, and vacation weeks
    • Performed smooth intakes and exit interviews for children where necessary
    • Developed rapport quickly with each child coming into care, and facilitated the caring assimilation of that child into the “Children's Home family.” Consistently wrote objective, detailed notes as well as clear incident reports and communicated closely with executive director and house parents after each shift
    • Promptly reported suspicion or testimony of past abuse to authorities when necessary
    • Demonstrated a parenting style that involves high acceptance, active compassion, consistency, and appropriate and positive discipline
    • Implemented the “Go on Green” point based, reward system daily in the home to keep children accountable for their behavior
    • Completed 40 hours of training relevant to foster parents per year
    • Scheduled various activities of the home, including the children's chores, homework, playtime, as well as special events/programs
    • Planned and executed nutritious meals for residents, teaching them to cook
    • Prepared meaningful and engaging Bible devotionals and prayer times to seek to introduce children to the Lord
    • Coordinated case manager, therapist, sibling, and parental visits, periodically transporting children
    • Led, participated in, and/or monitored leisure time activities, music, phone calls, etc
    • Planned and managed meaningful and fun weekend trips for children
    • Led and facilitated individual and group counseling sessions and “huddle meetings” for residents
    • Helped each child seek to develop a strong Christian character based on knowledge of their worth.

NeuroRestorative

Clinical Coordinator/Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist
06.2007 - 06.2011

Job overview

    • Excelled in the training and testing required to become a Certified Brain Injury Specialist through ACBIS
    • Addressed cognitive, social, emotional/behavioral needs of individuals recovering from acquired and traumatic brain injury
    • Carried an average case load of 9-11 clients, offering services based from clients' homes and communities
    • Provided 9-11 shifts per week of direct service to clients in their homes, including but not limited to: cognitive remediation, functional life skills training, job coach services, behavior adaptation and management, brain injury education, case management services, and family education and support, etc
    • Consistently offered “best practice,” engaging and creative, “real life” functional learning opportunities and community-based case management services for clients
    • Delivered cognitive rehabilitation therapy, intensive case management, and service coordination for the treatment team
    • Developed, revised, and administered Individual Rehabilitation Plans for each client that includes specific goals, interventions, outcomes, and supports geared towards increasing functional independence and community reintegration
    • Scheduled and led case conferences, fostering relationships with and communicating regularly with clients' funding source case managers
    • Assisted in and/or performed intake assessments for new clients
    • Chosen repeatedly to train new Clinicians as well as to introduce incoming supervisory staff (including a Program Manager) to the In-Home program
    • Department's resident advisor on working with clients with aphasia
    • Performed home safety evaluations for certain clients
    • Noted for establishing and maintaining excellent Client Clinical Files, including detailed, thorough, and well-written monthly Progress Reports and daily Progress Notes
    • Chosen to suggest key ideas/changes that were ultimately implemented to make the Department's work more timely, accurate, confidential, and efficient.

His Mansion Ministries

Residential Counselor/Mentor
06.2005 - 03.2007

Job overview

  • Trained in basic counseling courses that emphasize strong interpersonal skills, situational awareness/systemic skills, judgmental skills, mentoring skills, as well as integrity and trust building in relationships, all in the context of community
  • Engaged in residential Christian counseling while living in the dorm with, working alongside, and teaching female residents (ages 18-35) who struggle with one or more of the following issues: alcoholism, drug addictions, sexual addictions, eating disorders, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and other traumas, self-harm, emotional dependencies, social and behavioral challenges, and various mental health issues including depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia
  • Served as Dorm Leader, guiding the team of other mentors as we faced both crisis and everyday situations that required decisive problem-solving and relational skills
  • Promoted to Work Crew Supervisor for all the women residents and mentors in the ministry.
  • Helped to organize activities for women's free time and worked collaboratively with the men's program to coordinate events on weekends
  • Taught classes that clarified and expounded grace-filled living, and authenticity and integrity with God and others
  • Facilitated both small and large group sessions/discussions around residents' healing, and counselor effectiveness
  • Engaged in extensive hours of one-on-one counseling and mentoring with residents
  • Selected for public speaking opportunities to provide encouragement for and exhortation to the entire ministry
  • Served as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team for general troubleshooting within the program, assessing residents' strengths, weaknesses, and needs, and developing, evaluating, and implementing individual treatment plans.

Mt. Olive High And Black River Middle School

Student Teacher
01.2005 - 05.2005

Job overview

  • Assumed all duties for two classes of Resource Room Junior English with a total of 21 classified students, two study skills classes for classified students in grades 9-12, and taught English, Reading, and Life Skills in a self-contained classroom for students aged 14-21 with multiple disabilities at the High School
  • Took over three different Integrated Language Arts classes, including one “Extended Learner” class in the Middle School
  • Assumed all the responsibilities of the regular classroom teacher at both schools including professional development, assessment of students, staff meetings, parent/teacher meetings, etc
  • Supervised homeroom, detention, and extra help opportunities both during and after school.

The Timber Tailors

Marketing Leader/Administrative Assistant

Job overview

    • Generated leads, created proposals, and secured both residential and commercial sales that accounted for at least one-fourth of the company's gross yearly income (generally $60,000 each summer from 2001 and 2004).
    • Helped write, design, and execute annual mail marketing efforts
    • Managed company's books, in addition to handling all other secretarial duties and customer relations.

Education

College of St. Elizabeth
Convent Station, NJ

Bachelor of Arts from English
05.2005

University Overview

  • Minor: Secondary Education
  • Concentration: Special Education
  • NJ Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing: Teacher of English
  • NJ Teacher of Students with Disabilities Certification
  • Florida Certification (Expired): Professional Educator's Certificate: Exceptional Student Education (Grades K-12)
  • Overall GPA: 3.98
  • Education GPA: 3.99
  • English GPA: 3.99
  • CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid Certified for Adults, Children, and Infants.

Skills

  • Teaching: Early Childhood, Elementary, Secondary, and Special Education
  • Childcare
  • Empathetic caregiving
  • Case management/social work
  • Supervising
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Writing, proofreading, and editing
  • Individualized counseling
  • Customer service
  • Computer skills and fast typing
  • Sales

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • NJ Distinguished Scholar Award
  • Elizabethan Scholarship Award at St. Elizabeth's
  • Nominated, “Simon Fellow for Noble Purpose.”
  • Nominated, “NJ Commissioner's Distinguished Teacher Candidate.”
  • Nominated, “Ripple of Hope” Candidate for NJ MENTOR.
  • Achieved NJ MENTOR ABI Program's, “Most Creative Employee,” as well as the “Rising Star” award.
  • Client chosen as ABI Program's “Community Star” for recognition through NJACP STARS for progress made through services rendered.

Timeline

Preschool Teacher
America's Angels
01.2022 - 07.2023
Compassionate Entrepreneur
Trades Of Hope
01.2017 - Current
Upper School English Teacher
Seven Rivers Christian School
08.2014 - 06.2018
Teacher
Covenant Children's Home
06.2011 - 06.2014
Relief House Parent
Covenant Children's Home
06.2011 - 06.2014
Clinical Coordinator/Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist
NeuroRestorative
06.2007 - 06.2011
Residential Counselor/Mentor
His Mansion Ministries
06.2005 - 03.2007
Student Teacher
Mt. Olive High And Black River Middle School
01.2005 - 05.2005
Marketing Leader/Administrative Assistant
The Timber Tailors
College of St. Elizabeth
Bachelor of Arts from English

Volunteer Experience

Volunteer Experience
  • Served as a peer counselor- forming relationships with and mentoring young women at First Choice Women’s Resource Center in Montclair, NJ. Performed intake interviews and pregnancy tests, taught multiple courses, maintained excellent documentation, provided support and peer counseling services, and provided referrals for other resources needed. (3 years experience providing three hours of service per week).
  • Served as Head Sunday School Teacher (3 years experience with two-year-olds in integrated classrooms), and Nursery Worker at church in NJ. Sunday School Personal Aid for a boy with autism for one year. Served as a childcare provider at “Helping Hands” - a ministry for children with special needs and their caretakers.
  • Elementary/Special Education Teacher’s Aide for two years in high school.
  • Chosen to serve as Head Teacher for Vacation Bible School Ministry at Special Needs Orphanage in the Ukraine.
  • Tutored English, shadowed and assisted Social Workers, and taught Bible studies to street children at Christian Compassion Ministries and Orphanage in Cubao, Philippines.
  • Wrote content for, spearheaded and facilitated the design and creation of CNM’s (an orphanage in India) website.
  • First Friends” Volunteer for a year and a half- visiting, encouraging, and advocating for detainees who had fled their country and were being held in Elizabeth, N. J.
  • Assistant Director at “All Children’s Theatre” for the “Kiddie Dramatics Production,” an acting/drama program for preschool and kindergarten-aged children.
  • Partnered with Lion of Zambia Orphan Ministry to launch a “sponsorship” program for orphans in Zambia, Africa. Led the team- interviewing children in their homes, collecting and organizing data, setting up contact and facilitating relationships between the children and sponsors in multiple countries worldwide.

Hobbies

Hobbies

Singing and acting in local theatres, traveling, and playing sports.

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