LISA M. WYATT

• Led meetings to convey policy changes, gather information, and assess employee thoughts.
• Performed classroom evaluations to assess teacher strategies and effectiveness.
• Coordinated yearly operations and staff budget, tracked expenses, and documented actions.
• Supported hiring, training, and disciplinary action in compliance with legal guidelines and requirements.
• Oversaw schedule management and protocols for orientation, registration, and related activities.
• Trained teachers on effective teaching techniques, classroom management strategies, and behavior modification.
• Supervised and evaluated teaching and support staff through instructional leadership and professional development.
• Built productive relationships with parents of students facing difficult situations at school or at home.
• Instructed small groups of teachers and students.
• Helped students develop important learning skills and good study habits useful in trade school or college education.
• Monitored and evaluated educational programs to maintain high-quality performance objectives and standards.
• Collaborated with school board officials to assess areas for improvement in curricula, classrooms, testing and student activities.
• Supported special education department by developing programs and protocols for at-risk youth and students with special needs.
• Built and maintained positive relationships with diverse stakeholders, such as parents, school volunteers and outside agencies.
• Partnered with principal to administer school program in alignment with vision and goals, providing positive, high-expectation academic environment.

01/15-05/21 Austin Community College, College of Liberal Arts

Introduction to Sociology and Education Effectiveness

01/18-05/20 St. Edwards University, College of Liberal Arts

Sociology of Education, Race, Class, and Gender, The Family, and Diasporas Across the World

01/16-05/20 Lone Star Community College, College of Liberal Arts

Sociology of Education and Social Problems

08/05-05/11 The University of Texas, College of Natural Sciences

Research Methods and Critical Thinking

08/05-05/11 The University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts

Critical Thinking

08/05-05/11 Concordia University - Austin

Sociology, Social Psychology, and Race and Ethnicity

• Communicated closely with other counselors to devise programs and activities based on developmental and academic levels.
• Supported students through challenging developmental milestones and crisis situations and coordinated outside service referrals for those needing extra assistance.
• Personalized career advice to incorporate student grades, goals and skill level.
• Educated individuals with special interests about unique grants and scholarships for higher education.
• Offered extra assistance to students of impoverished backgrounds by providing clothes for job interviews and support for basic needs.
• Maintained positive relationships and open communication with parents about application paperwork, testing requirements and upcoming deadlines.
• Helped students complete admissions applications and pursue scholarships to fund education at state, private and vocational schools.
• Cemented relationships with colleges across state, region and entire country to better serve schools' students.
• Recommended school-wide policy to incorporate dual credit during the school day.
• Delivered high-quality services to students needing academic and emotional support.
• Coordinated record transfers between school and outside organizations such as colleges and trade schools.
• Taught classes and presented self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning.
• Monitored student progress to drive successful academic outcomes.
• Assisted students in exploring and selecting career paths.
• Planned and promoted career planning presentations, work experience programs and career workshops.
• Collaborated with parents, school faculty and social workers to address problems and grow student success.
• Provided resources to support students in achieving career goals.
• Collaborated with parents and teachers to help students reach potential.
• Oversaw career and job fairs to connect students with area schools and employers.
• Analyzed student academic records to assess educational and career goals.
• Built schedules around students' strengths and long-term goals, customizing different approaches for college preparatory and technical school pathways.

• Office of Undergraduate Research and Center for Core Curriculum, School of Undergraduate Studies (OUR)
• My responsibilities include developing and implementing strategic plans to promote undergraduate research to undergraduate students at the, at Austin
• I specifically work with appropriate stakeholders including colleges, departments, students, and faculty to develop an undergraduate research program that successfully serves the School of Undergraduate Studies and the University's mission and strategic plan; maintain a searchable database of faculty and research projects; establish and maintain a website that enables faculty and students to find one another, and that provides access to information related to local and national competitions, scholarships, workshops, and reports on best practices in undergraduate research; collaborate with faculty to obtain external funding to support undergraduate research training programs, including those targeted to underrepresented students; develop and maintain an evaluation system to assess undergraduate research efforts and use the findings to support continual improvement in collaboration with the Assessment Coordinator.

• Academic Community Programs (ACP)
• Responsibilities included evaluating and modifying and creating new processes to generate baseline data to support the implementation of the College Readiness Initiative by identifying and/or recommending and coordinating the completion of internal surveys and performing all statistical analysis
• Responsibilities included multiple administrative and curricular duties: design, coordinate, and implement programs for Student Success Programs; hire, train, supervise, and evaluate key program personnel; communicate with all constituencies both internally and externally regarding the Academic Community Programs (College Readiness Initiative, Emerging Scholars Program, Multicultural Academic Initiative, CNS Academy of Tutors and Mentors, Women in Natural Sciences, Residential Study Hall Program, Community FIGs, and CNS Project Mentoring); coordinate program activities in a manner that facilitated maximum effectiveness and utilization of program resources, including personnel; develop and implement an effective and objective system of evaluation of the programs and their impact on the retention and student success; develop curriculum and programming that addresses developmental and pipeline issues including pre-semester workshops that address basic skills in math and science; work with Math and Science teachers across the state to address discrepancies in academic expectations; fiscal responsibility for budgetary decisions and management of ACP.

• As a consultant on the Texas Education Agency grants for Comprehensive School Reform and High School Reform and Redesign I was responsible for conducting classroom observations of the teaching strategies and student engagement; interviewing school administration, principals, teachers, students, parents and community liaisons and writing a detailed analytic report of my findings.

• Emerging Scholars Program, Residential Study Hall Program and Multicultural Academic Initiatives
• Responsible for curriculum, instruction, hiring and management of staff, advisement, and administration for student retention and Student Success Programs in the Science, Math and Engineering fields (STEM)
• Worked closely with the Department of Mathematics and the Charles A
• Dana Center and attendant committees to develop and implement program mission and goals; led the development and implementation of the strategic planning process for long range goals of expanding the program to include other programs under the ESP umbrella (ESP Chemistry) and designed new program (Residential Study Hall Program) that provided service college wide
• Consulted with other programs about expanding model to include other disciplines (General Engineering Program (GE), Partners In Natural Sciences (PENS); fiscal responsibility for budgetary decisions and management of ESP; supervised and trained graduate student assistant instructors; supervised and trained undergraduates; assisted with establishing national standards and best practices for training ESP instructors; developed training manual for national ESP training; built campus collaborative networks with campus offices/programs to actively promote ESP model of student recruitment and success
• Developed strategic plan for addressing issues of under representation in the areas of recruitment, retention, and academic success in the college; designed Diversity program for the college and served as Diversity Officer for the College.

• Responsibilities included designing, compiling and performing statistical analyses for the Robert Lee Moore project
• I was responsible for acquiring the necessary institutional data for the analyses through internal and external sources, including Texas Exes data bases, UT course catalogs and the registrar data
• I conducted analyses for purposes of assessing the effectiveness of the “Moore Method”.