Lisa Casagrande

• Plan and facilitate reflection groups to deepen life meaning
• Meet with individual directees, guiding conversations towards more meaning, spiritually or practically

• Facilitate the Teacher's daily plans of play by ensuring safety and freedom in areas such as art, building, kitchen work, music and conflict management
• Co-created a parent lead playgroup during the pandemic
• Lead parent meetings to plan for monthly rotation of play group
• Emphasized play and relationship building over academics and competition

• Planned and delivered differentiated, meaningful lesson plans that effectively addressed the diverse learning styles and cultures of each child

• Fostered a classroom culture that nurtured respect, independence, and collaboration

• Successfully implemented independent learning centers • Created and taught differentiated guided reading groups on a daily basis

• Served on the Instructional Leadership Team

• Collaborated with parents, RSP and support staff to best support the SST and IEP process

• Participated in 2 years of implementation and collaboration in creation of new thematic units

• Followed classroom plans left by class teacher to continue student education and reinforce core concepts.
• Upheld classroom routines to support student environments and maintain consistent schedules.
• Repeatedly requested as substitute teacher by teachers based on excellent past referrals and trusted performance.

• Co-Taught cross curricular lessons with my Cooperating Teachers in 1st through 5th grade
• Work with selected students in reading interventions
• Develop content-area lessons based on student’s needs

• Guided culturally and academically diverse students from various school districts and ages in experiential learning activities and lessons
• Developed and enhanced lessons based on the California Science Content Standards
• Collaborate with teachers from visiting schools to tailor lessons and interactions to the specific needs of individual students
• Mediate conflict, establish group expectations, and employ behavior management strategies
• Guided students in setting personal goals and motivating themselves to accomplish them

• Completed Permaculture Design Course and implemented principles in various camp projects including: co-creating a kitchen garden to be used by the Environmental Education camp, compost system, rain water directing berms, and camper participation restoration efforts
• Trained and participated in challenge course facilitation
• Planned and developed summer camp curriculum
• Extensive training and practice in Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org)

• Co-lead a student-run restoration effort to preserve an endangered ecosystem
• Tracked data and progress of restoration effort

• Taught small groups of 2nd and 3rd grade students in after school group games, songs, lesson time and crafts.