Marie Muckenthaler
Culver City,CA
Summary
An organized professional with teaching, counseling and leadership experience who has the ability to lead a team and resolve problems or conflicts in a professional manner. Team leader and team member with the ability to work in a fast-paced, diverse environment. Possesses the skill to communicate complex or difficult information in a calm, simple and friendly manner. Looking to contribute interpersonal communication skills in a forward-thinking organization. Enthusiastic Assistant Principal offering a 27-year history of supporting academic administration functions. Motivated to improve relationships among faculty, students and administrators. Personable and outgoing with skill in building rapport with diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Counselor
Inglewood Unified School District
07.2000 - 06.2006
- Grade-level counselor responsible for all aspects of high school counseling including educational, college and personal counseling.
- Member of testing team; school's testing coordinator.
- Created peer-to-peer tutoring program.
- Created after-school girl's mentoring program called G.A.L.S. (Girls Achieving Lifetime Success).
- Provided yearly matriculation to meet with students and plan classes that met graduation and college requirements.
- Scheduled parent-teacher conferences when student's having educational or personal difficulties.
- Provided academic counseling, personal counseling including college requirements and applications to a 600 student case load.
Assistant Principal
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
07.2013 - 08.2023
- Partnered with principal to administer school program in alignment with vision and goals, providing positive, high-expectation academic environment.
- Monitored student behavior and enforced discipline policies.
- Performed classroom evaluations to assess teacher strategies and effectiveness.
- Supervised and evaluated teaching and support staff through instructional leadership and professional development.
- Built and maintained positive relationships with diverse stakeholders, such as parents, school volunteers and outside agencies.
- Built productive relationships with parents of students facing difficult situations at school or at home.
- Supported hiring, training, and disciplinary action in compliance with legal guidelines and requirements.
- Special education designee overseeing over 100 special education students and the school special education department. Oversee cases including due process, triennials, annual and initial IEPs, private school triennials and initials, and 504 plans; monitor the special education to ensure District, State and Federal compliance.
- Maintain open communication by phone, email and in person for students and parents to inquire about academics and personal issues.
- Oversee master calendar, plant and facility rentals, and plant rentals.
Assistant Principal
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
07.2006 - 06.2013
- Provided administrative leadership and guidance to the independent study school for the District.
- Oversaw a teaching staff of 96 teachers, 5 classified and 2,200 "at risk" students.
- Responsible for the attendance office, enrollment, compliance, both District and State.
- Responsible for streamlining the enrollment process making it easier for both teachers and parents.
- Responsible for all State-mandated forms were in compliance; monitored teacher files to ensure compliance.
- Developed and presented at staff meetings and professional development workshops.
Teacher
Compton Unified School District
02.1997 - 06.2000
- Classroom teacher in the District's independent study school and community day school (CDS).
- Taught all subjects to 9th through 12th grade "at risk" students in a self-contained classroom and in an independent study environment.
- Ensured all students comprehended curriculum and supported students who needed extra guidance, instruction.
- Established after-school and lunchtime tutoring.
- Adopted distinctive teaching methodologies, created lesson plans for all student levels (scaffolding), led healthy and passionate group discussions and mentored "at risk" students.
Education
Master of Science - Educational Administration
Pepperdine University
Malibu, California07.2004
Master of Science - Educational Counseling
National University
Los Angeles, California07.1999
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Phoenix
Fountain Valley, California02.1996
Skills
- Adolescent Development
- Crisis Evaluation and Intervention
- Superior Communication Skills
- Individual Counseling
- Public Speaking Abilities
- Parenting Skills Educator
- Learning Disability Awareness
- Positive Reinforcement Methods
- Intervention Planning
- Character Building
- Special education
- Policy development and enforcement
- Relationship building and networking
- Staff Development
Involved in animal rescue
I have volunteered a Dawg Squad Animal Rescue since 2012 and am a dog foster mother.
Timeline
Assistant Principal
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
07.2013 - 08.2023
Assistant Principal
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
07.2006 - 06.2013
Counselor
Inglewood Unified School District
07.2000 - 06.2006
Teacher
Compton Unified School District
02.1997 - 06.2000
Master of Science - Educational Administration
Pepperdine University
Master of Science - Educational Counseling
National University
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
University of Phoenix