Merisa C. T. Marsh
Chief Academic Officer
Bridgeville,PA
Summary
Seasoned [Job Title] offering [Number] years� experience in educational leadership positions. Focused on building and enhancing relationships, meeting service needs and maintaining smooth administration of all department operations. Desire growth-oriented position in dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Academic Officer
Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11.2021 - Current
- Build and oversee direct reports instructional knowledge of standards, content, and the most relevant instructional methods for both in person and virtual instruction to address academic concerns and increase student incomes
- Monitored and developed organizational goals to ensure on track progress to goals during the instructional year
- Creator of professional development sessions that are differentiated to meet the needs of all staff members at the school
- Oversees culture rounds and instructional rounds to ensure that all managing and supporting team leaders are growing in their coaching ability, and scholars and teachers are hitting academic targets
- Collaborated with other charter school and public school instructional leaders to bring new ideas and best practices to the school
- Set learning targets for all teachers and students based off historical data and progress throughout the school yearn and designing professional development for the year to ensure those targets are hit
- Oversees and directly manages the academic lead team to ensure they are hitting their academic targets and ensuring coaching sessions are tailored to their individual needs
- Plans, facilitate and leads Coaching Academy for academic team leaders at my and neighboring charter schools and Summer Institute for the Operations team at UPK5 to address and increase proficiency in academic and operational trends around the campus
- Compiles and completes state, federal, and local district reports and grants as required by law
- Report school wide academic data to the board of directors at monthly meetings
- Builds relationships with parents and community partners to ensure students have extracurricular activities both inside and outside the school
- Ensures a safe environment for students and staff and builds plans to support safety during COVID-19
- Driver of staff and student retention to hit organizational goals
Founding Principal and Data Manager
IDEA Public Schools
New Orleans, Louisiana
07.2020 - 11.2021
- Build and oversee direct reports instructional knowledge of standards, content and the most relevant instructional methods for both in person and virtual instruction
- Creator of professional development that is differentiated to meet the faculty and staff needs
- Oversees student culture rounds and instructional rounds to ensure students and staff are hitting the culture and academic targets
- Instructional coach for Humanities department in grades 6-8 and Special Education Department in grades K-8
- Set learning targets for all teachers and students based off historical data and progress throughout the school year
- Manager for Principal in Residence and Assistant Principal for Operations to ensure they are hitting their goals
- Builds relationships with parents and community partners to ensure students have extra curricular activities both inside and outside the school
- Ensures a safe environment for students and staff and builds plans to support safety during COVID-19
- Driver of staff and student retention to hit organizational goals
- Oversees all state reporting to ensure reports to the Louisiana Department of Education accurately reflect students at IDEA Oscar Dunn Academy and IDEA Oscar Dunn College Prep
Principal
IDEA Public Schools
New Orleans, Texas, Louisiana
07.2018 - 07.2020
- Built own and direct reports’ instructional knowledge of standards, content and instructional methods
- Developed emerging special education leaders on the campus to ensure a compliant special education program which focused on individual student results
- Manages the 6th grade as principal to ensure compliant and fun culture and high academic achievement
- Oversees attendance to drive to the school goal of 97.5% average daily attendance daily
- Provides professional development to teachers around best instructional practices and behavior management strategies
- Serves as the liaison between the school and the district for all things related to the English as a Second Language Program
- Oversaw the successful Welcome to IDEA program
- Collaborate with Principal and other school leaders to hire and retaining diverse, highly-effective teachers and school staff
Program Manager
InspireNOLA Charter Schools
New Orleans
07.2017 - 07.2018
- Collaborate with the Executive Director of Special Populations and the Chief Academic Officer to ensure the academic vision of InspireNOLA Charter School is implemented in the Special Education and ELL program and ensures that it addresses the needs of Special Education and EL Scholars
- Collaborated with the Executive Director of Special Education to create a vision for Exceptional Education at InspireNOLA to ensure all scholars have a high-quality education and ensure that all instructional team members increase their content and instructional knowledge
- Collaborate with the Culture Team to ensure that all Culture Team members can support the behavioral, social and emotional needs of scholars with exceptionalities
- Collaborated with leads of the other academic departments to ensure curriculum and programming was aligned to support the scholars with special needs and EL scholars
- Managed the Special Education Coordinators and EL Coordinators to ensure that all scholars are receiving compliant services and that all services are tailored to individual scholars needs
- Provide training and professional development for the Special Education teachers based on school wide trends and best practices in education
- Supports Teacher of Record to ensure that all IEPs are compliantly written and executed, and compliant with the law
- Coordinate with the Academic and Operations to analyze data for Special Education and ELL students
- Audit Special education and ELL folders based on a Case Compliance Rubric and File Audit sheets
- Coach coordinators on how to provide excellent Special Education and ELL programming on the school level and how to provide support to teachers, paraprofessional and administration
- Support Counselors and Social workers on the implementation and data collection for FBA and BIPs
- Provide feedback on IEPs using the Case Compliance Rubric to push teachers from writing compliant IEPs to high quality IEPs
- Provide training and support for Gifted and Talented Teachers based on the Gifted/Talented Case Compliance Rubric
- Complete Monthly Metrics and Quarterly Reports based on data collected at school level for analysis on how to make programming better have higher quality instruction and Compliance
- Meet weekly with the Executive Director of Student Supports as the liaison between her and the school level
- Receive weekly professional development on enhancing my leadership and management skills
Special Education Coordinator
ReNew Schools- SciTech Academy
New Orleans
07.2016 - 07.2017
- Supervised 7 teacher case managers, 1 speech language pathologist, and 1 counselor for students with exceptionalities
- Supported Teacher Case Managers in ensuring that all IEPs are compliant with timelines and within the law
- Supported Teacher Case Managers in ensuring all evaluations are done with the timeline
- Coordinated with the Director of Special Education/Director of Compliance to ensure that SciTech is meeting the state deadlines in the Corrective Action Plan (CAP)
- Coordinated 26 evaluations and IEPs for students with exceptionalities per the Corrective Action Plan
- Audited and overhauled the folder compliance system to make sure that each folder was compliant
- Audited remaining folders to make sure they are 1508 compliant
- Supported general education teachers and administrators in implementation of appropriate strategies to meet the needs of students with IEPs
- Analyzed assessment results to drive instruction and IEP development
- Developed and assist with appropriate behavior management techniques for students with special needs
- Coached teacher case managers on best instructional practices, organizational techniques, having compliant files and the interpretation of data to drive instruction
- Co-coached general education teachers on strategies for instruction of students with exceptionalities and co-teaching practices
- Served as a resource for information regarding special education services, programs and policies and ensure that procedures are appropriate in relation to policies required by region, district, state and federal regulatory requirements
- Provided leadership and professional development to drive the special education department on IEP writing, folder management, data analysis and organization
- Ensured compliance to established policies, procedures and/or regulations
s Teacher
Guilford County Schools, High School Ahead Academy
Greensboro, North Carolina
01.2016 - 05.2016
- Instructed 6th and 8th grade students in Language Arts and mathematics using the various co-teaching models
- Administered state and district wide required testing
- Created IEPs and Reevaluation plans for students based on their ability, specific learning deficits, data collection and their transition from HSAA to high school or back to their home middle schools
- Served on the Leadership Committee representing the Special Education Department
- Served on the Math team
- Attended Professional Developments to keep up with the best practices and district mandates for middle school language arts and mathematics
ESS Resource Teacher/Lead Special Education Teacher
East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Winbourne Elementary School
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
12.2014 - 06.2015
- Instructed students in grades 1-5 based on IEP goals and objectives
- Administered the LAA 1 test to self contained students with Autism
- Created IEP plans for students based on their disability, specific learning deficits, and data collection
- Oversaw and met with testing staff at the school to ensure that testing accommodations and modifications were up to the state standards for the PARCC assessment for all children with special needs at the school
- Held weekly meetings to ensure information is given to all Special Education teachers at Winbourne
- Co-taught 5th grade reading/writing/spelling during Reading block
Special Education Teacher/Homebound Instructor/Saturday School Teacher
Atlanta Public Schools
Atlanta, Georgia
08.2009 - 07.2012
- Created Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for each child based on data collected by members of the IEP team
- Conducted annual and monthly meetings with parents and staff members to discuss the progress of the students
- Instructed the students based on the Georgia Performance Standards
- Assessed the students based on the Georgia Performance Standards using the Georgia Alternate Assessment
- Conducted meetings with the staff at the homeschool for the homebound student to create an education plan for the duration of the time the student was homebound
- Visited homebound special need students to teach and test them on their regularly assigned curriculum
- Identified and taught special education third and fifth grade students a modified curriculum
- Documented the progress of all students
- Organized and coordinated the Special Education Week in order to pair special education students with general education students and promote awareness 2
Education
Juris Doctorate - Education of Individuals With Disabilities
Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, Louisia05.2015
Master of Arts - Exceptional Education
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, GA12.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA05.2008
Skills
- Project Management
- Planning and Coordination
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Attention to Detail
- Policy implementation
Timeline
Chief Academic Officer
Urban Pathways K-5 College Charter School
11.2021 - Current
Founding Principal and Data Manager
IDEA Public Schools
07.2020 - 11.2021
Principal
IDEA Public Schools
07.2018 - 07.2020
Program Manager
InspireNOLA Charter Schools
07.2017 - 07.2018
Special Education Coordinator
ReNew Schools- SciTech Academy
07.2016 - 07.2017
s Teacher
Guilford County Schools, High School Ahead Academy
01.2016 - 05.2016
ESS Resource Teacher/Lead Special Education Teacher
East Baton Rouge Parish School System, Winbourne Elementary School
12.2014 - 06.2015
Special Education Teacher/Homebound Instructor/Saturday School Teacher
Atlanta Public Schools
08.2009 - 07.2012
Juris Doctorate - Education of Individuals With Disabilities
Southern University Law Center
Master of Arts - Exceptional Education
Clark Atlanta University
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
Spelman College
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