Marlena Sanders
Fortson,GA
Summary
Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing diverse curriculums covering wide range of subjects. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Teacher
DODEA Schools
07.2010 - Current
- Work collaboratively with other teachers and administrators in LEEDS 21st-century open-concept school.
- Incorporate multiple types of curriculum resources and strategies into classroom to promote student engagement and learning.
- Communicate frequently with parents, students, and faculty to provide feedback and discuss instructional strategies to promote learning and address academic achievement gaps.
- Support student physical, mental, and social development using positive behavior interventions.
- Develop and design lesson plans using Understanding by Design Framework (UBD)
- Currently serving on school-level professional learning community (PLC) committee and served on continuous school improvement committees prior.
- Focus on needs of diverse learners through use of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in response to need for intervention
- Continuously collect and analyze student data to measure student learning.
- Extensive experience in grouping entire grade-level students based on homogeneous and heterogeneous groupings for Tier 1 instruction.
- Plan and implement Tier 2 and Tier 3 research-based interventions for struggling learners.
- Unpacked DODEA College and Career Ready standards (CCRSM) to develop instructional lessons that meet CCRSM standards
- Engage in development of digital lesson plans and instructional resources for grade-level teams
- Instruct students in online learning using Google Classroom, Zoom, Google Meets, and many other online-based platforms, including Seesaw and Schoology.
- Specialized experience in multi-age classrooms
- Extensive experience in first-grade classrooms with general education subjects with strong emphasis on Reading and Math.
- Extensive experience developing and designing tiered workstations in Reading and Math to support group of diverse learners
- Extensive experience with Reading Street, Benchmark Advance, Science of Reading, Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA), Dibbles, Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI), Fountas and Pinnell Baseline Assessment System (BAS), and Benchmark Reading Proficiency Tool (RPT),
- Teammate of first-grade team that exhibited highest growth scores district-wide (Southeast District) in Reading and Math.
- Developed spreadsheets and documents to document student progress monitoring to support Student Support Team (SST) process shared and implemented school-wide.
- Very knowledgeable about development and implementation of goals and indicators for continuous school improvement plans
- Very knowledgeable about AdvancEd know Cognia accreditation processes
Flight Attendant
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
07.2002 - 08.2005
- Ensured safety and comfort of customers onboard aircraft.
- Verified aircraft and passenger compliance with policies, regulations, and safety guidance.
- Resolved passenger conflicts and medical emergencies during flights.
- Facilitated communication between flight deck and cabin crew before and during flights to promote smooth operations.
- Clearly explained and demonstrated safety and emergency procedures to passengers prior to takeoff
- Attended workshops and trainings in customer service, conflict resolution tactics, and safety procedures to keep abreast of all new requirements and procedures
- Performed pre-flight safety checks to verify oxygen masks, life jackets and other emergency equipment in good working order
- Served beverages and food items from refreshment carts and provided information about in-flight offerings to passengers
- Assisted passengers with disabilities by providing wheelchairs and supporting throughout airport to provide excellent customer service
Computer Applications Specialist
J. Smith Lanier & Co.
06.2000 - 07.2002
- Developed and implemented personalized client solutions using programming language expertise.
- Wrote code for database applications.
- Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning.
- Participated in design and planning exercises for future software rollouts.
- Updated technical documentation, product specifications, and technical training materials.
- Delivered support training to help customers learn key features of applications.
- Conducted scheduled system upgrades to maximize performance.
- Developed multi-channel roadmap for desktop and web applications.
Education
Doctor of Education EDD/ET - Educational Leadership/Educational Technology
University of Phoenix
Phoenix12.2023
Master of Arts - Elementary Education
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ05.2010
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
LaGrange College
La Grange, GA06.1998
Skills
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Lumio, Pear Deck, and many other collaborative learning instructional tools knowledge
- Student-centered learning
- Student engagement
- Elementary education
- RTI familiarity
- Differentiated instruction
- Group and individual instruction
- Curriculum Development
- Lesson Planning
- Classroom management
- Group learning mechanics
Certification
- Georgia Elementary Education (P-5) Teaching License - Renewable 6/30/25
- Middle Grades (4-8) Teaching License - Renewable 6/30/25
- DODEA (1-8) Teaching Certificate; Reading and Math Instructional Support, Computer Science, Educational Technology, Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades 4-8 Math, Science, Social Studies.
Timeline
Teacher
DODEA Schools
07.2010 - Current
Flight Attendant
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
07.2002 - 08.2005
Computer Applications Specialist
J. Smith Lanier & Co.
06.2000 - 07.2002
Doctor of Education EDD/ET - Educational Leadership/Educational Technology
University of Phoenix
Master of Arts - Elementary Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
LaGrange College
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