Leadership Experience
Business And Education
08.2001 - Current
- Instructional Coach GTMS and JMU (VANTSP).
- Brings evidence-based practices into classrooms by working with teachers and other school leaders, while ensuring implementation of the IWCS instructional framework.
- Data analysis/Renaissance/SOL/Growth Assessments.
- Leads PLC meetings focused on student learning and data.
- Staff leadership team, PBL integration, staff observations/support.
- Meets diverse student population needs by planning and implementing lessons with a wide variety of teaching strategies.
- Coaches teachers to improve practices through professional development and modeling instructional strategies data.
- Builds and maintains a positive relationship with clients
- Own and operate L'il Folks Learning Center, Inc.
- Director for three years, created faculty and parent handbook, began center from scratch by adhering to all Virginia Department of Social Services Standards.
- Manages budget, and all financial matters including payroll, taxes, facility initiatives and improvements.
- Oversees center Director, 15-20 employees, classroom schedules, work schedule, field trip approval, and overall functioning of the facility.
- Interviews and hires staff members.
- Supervised student teachers in the Early Head Start program.
- Summer Academy staff supervision/ York County Public Schools
- Handled all discipline issues, staff observations, data analysis and reports.
- Coordinated Planning
- Project Management
- Assisted leadership teams with building shared beliefs and attitudes across organizational structures.
- Designed courses to meet company requirements and help develop new leaders within organizational structure.
- Managed new employee orientation training process for all new hires each year.
- Coordinated meetings for team members and facilitated educational groups for school leaders.
- Trained staff during demonstrations, meetings, conferences and workshops.
- Conducted training courses and prepared videos for long-term use.
- Led daily, weekly and monthly coaching, counseling and feedback sessions.
- Trained new hires to perform cross-training exercises with experienced workers.
- Organized and edited training manuals, multimedia visual aids and other educational materials.
- Researched and obtained relevant course materials to achieve training objectives.
- Oversees and plans large facility EXPOS for community engagement
