Nancy Hagstrom

Passionate about facilitating meaningful learning and teaching for all. Energetic teacher and colleague with focus on experiential and interdisciplinary learning. Experienced with delivering high-quality educational content and fostering student engagement through interactive teaching methods. Utilize effective communication skills and critical thinking to create stimulating learning environment. Track record of leveraging academic expertise to mentor and guide students to academic success. Proficient in Spanish.

Facilitator, University of Southern Maine, Office of Professional Development, Spring 2024 Co-planned and co-led workshops focused on bolstering advisory programming and structures for 6-12 schools.

Coordinator, Portland Schools Cross Middle School Proficiency Workshops 2017 - 2022 Co-planned three annual cross-middle school professional development sessions focused on Proficiency Based Teaching and Learning.

Contributing Author to Content Based Foreign Language Teaching edited by Laurent Cammarata Wrote a chapter titled “A Look at CBI in Action: An Exploratory Journey into the Arts and History in the Foreign Language Classroom”. (2015)

Filmed as “Classroom Teaching Model” for EL Education’s “Management in the Active Classroom” Series. (2015) Showcased classroom management around a performance based task in a Spanish 3 class.

Maine Department of Education Teacher Certification 440,

K-12 Spanish