Lisa Cuevas
Salem,OR
Summary
Experienced certified bilingual reading specialist skilled in boosting students' literacy skills, providing professional development and coordinating school wide reading intervention programs. Knowledgeable in the latest reading educational methods. Offering a successful career history of more than 20 years.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Elementary Substitute Teacher
Salem Keizer School District 24J
11.2022 - Current
- 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.
Literacy Teacher/Bilingual Classroom Teacher/Substitute Teacher
Salem Keizer School District 24J
10.2017 - 11.2022
- Collaborated with reading specialists from other buildings to create school wide reading intervention program
- Collaborated with teachers, mentors, principals and other educational professionals to identify and modify curricula to meet needs of struggling readers
- Analyzed assessment data to create intervention groups, select appropriate instructional programs, materials and strategies for struggling readers
- Created targeted instructional & behavioral growth goals to help students attain their learning potential
- Collaborated in training, monitoring and administering standardized assessments, progress monitoring, and in program assessments
- Provided professional development in assessment & reading instruction to both licensed and classified staff
- Performed fidelity checks to ensure high level of intervention program implementation
- Test piloted new reading programs & participated in focus groups for adopting new reading programs in both English and Spanish for school district.
- Managed team of twelve intervention instructors
- Performed all classroom teacher duties
Substitute Teacher/TOSA
Portland Public Schools
11.2013 - 09.2017
- Substituted for regular teacher, managing assignments, student needs and recordkeeping
- Provided high level of instruction to ESOL, Spanish, Arabic & Reading Intervention students in grades K-8
- 2015-2016 August-September worked as a TOSA Teacher on Special Assignment for the Department of Systems Planning and Performance Educational Measurement & Assessment. Performed state testing, support & Spanish translation to kindergarten classrooms district wide
Kindergarten ESOL Teacher
Abu Dhabi Education Council
08.2011 - 07.2013
- Developed & taught hands on activities that integrated technology to increase ESL students' conversational speaking, grammar & reading levels
- Created lesson plans based on course objectives and learning standards
- Collaborated with grade level teachers and department heads to meet and exceed quarterly and yearly educational goals
- Provided professional development in ESL math strategies
- Mentored first year teachers
Education
Classroom Educator -Certificate of Completion - Strategies for Dyslexic Students
Academy of Orton-Gillingham
Armenia, NY 06.2021
Reading Specialist Endorsement -
Willamette University
Salem, OR06.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts & Elementary Education
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR06.2006
Skills
- Collaboration
- Flexible Approach
- Assessment
- Planning & Coordination
- Group & individual instruction
- Professional Development
- Program Fidelity Checks
- Individualized Coaching
- In Person & Virtual
Trained in the following Programs & Assessments
- Bridge the Gap
- Corrective Reading
- Dyslexia Tool Kit
- DIBELS & IDEL
- DRA2 & EDL2
- Easy cbm
- EIR
- Estrellita
- ECRI
- El Camino al Exito
- Heggerty English & Spanish
- Intervenciones a La Lectura
- Mundo
- The Orton-Gillingham Approach
- Phonics for Reading
- Reading Mastery K-2
- Ready Gen
- Readwell
- Rewards
- Scott Foresman Early Reading Interventions
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Limited Working
Timeline
Elementary Substitute Teacher
Salem Keizer School District 24J
11.2022 - Current
Literacy Teacher/Bilingual Classroom Teacher/Substitute Teacher
Salem Keizer School District 24J
10.2017 - 11.2022
Substitute Teacher/TOSA
Portland Public Schools
11.2013 - 09.2017
Kindergarten ESOL Teacher
Abu Dhabi Education Council
08.2011 - 07.2013
Classroom Educator -Certificate of Completion - Strategies for Dyslexic Students
Academy of Orton-Gillingham
Reading Specialist Endorsement -
Willamette University
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts & Elementary Education
Oregon State University
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