Myra Young
Palmdale,California
Summary
A strong instructional leader with a passion and solid foundation in education including teacher best practices who excels in cultivating and maintaining positive relationships with all educational constituencies including administrators, parents, teachers, students, and community seeking a position as Coordinator of Community Schools within Lancaster school district.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Learning Support Teacher
Palmdale School District
08.2012 - Current
- Documents student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable teachers to address pertinent issues.
- Delivers personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Assist school administrators in daily operations while monitoring student progress
- Provide guidance and support to teachers and staff to assist in the implementation of the school's curriculum and district policies
- Facilitates Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) meetings for academic and behavior supports in collaboration with the school site MTSS team
- Facilitates school site parent meetings: School Site Council (SSC), English Learner Advisory Committee (ELAC) and African-American Parent Committee (AAPAC) to support student achievement
- Observe, plans, attends school site grade level Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and district Professional Development (PD) utilizing data to improve on teacher best practices as well as student academic and behavior performance
- Supervise and schedule Instructional Assistants for classroom intervention academic support
Upper Elementary Teacher
Hawthorne School District
08.2001 - 06.2012
- Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in educational process.
- Evaluated individual student abilities and created action plans based on current level and desired growth goals to support preparedness for transition to next grade level.
- Communicated student progress, academic difficulties, or behavioral concerns to parents, guardians and administration using tact and professionalism to improve student academic performance.
- Drove student learning by establishing clear classroom plans and group objectives, as well as actionable strategies to achieve each goal.
- Incorporated district technology into lesson planning to create engaging, multi-dimensional lessons.
Education
Master of Arts - Education Administration
National University
La Jolla, CA06.2024
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ07.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education
The University of Texas of The Permian Basin
Odessa, TXNo Degree - UTK Leadership Initiative- 21 CSLA-Certificate
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California United States07.2024
Skills
- Administrative Support
- Comprehensive Systems of Support (CSI)trained
- Master Teacher/Instructional Coach
- Teacher Support
- Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) trained on academics and behavior
- Facilitates School Site Staff Professional Development (PD)
- Classroom Management
- Data Analysis
- Teacher Clarity
- Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS)
- Capturing Kids Heart (CKH)
- Staff and Student Supervision
Accomplishments
- Teacher of the Year 2017-2018
- Teacher of the Year 2018-2019
Technology Skills
Google Suites
Timeline
Learning Support Teacher
Palmdale School District
08.2012 - Current
Upper Elementary Teacher
Hawthorne School District
08.2001 - 06.2012
Master of Arts - Education Administration
National University
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Arts - Elementary Education
The University of Texas of The Permian Basin
No Degree - UTK Leadership Initiative- 21 CSLA-Certificate
UC Berkeley
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