Nathalie Serrano
Brownsville,TX
Summary
I possess extensive experience working with youth, adults, and diverse communities across various grade levels and sectors. My background includes both classroom instruction and administrative roles within education, nonprofit organizations, and athletic coaching/training. I am deeply committed to empowering young people, helping them realize their full potential across multiple aspects of their lives.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Academic Coach
Graduation Alliance
12.2023 - Current
- Create and implement student intervention plans to promote long-term success.
- Communicate program expectations to students and parents to ensure monthly requirements are met.
- Assign classes weekly following a learning plan that aligns with district policies.
- Communicate with students weekly to remind them of due dates and weekly pacing.
- Create and send out progress reports weekly to students and parents.
- Host daily study meetings to assist students with assignments. Participate in district meetings to discuss a focus list of students who need additional assistance.
- Provide guidance to students experiencing hardship.
- Submit students for graduation review after all credit requirements have been met.
Enrollment Counselor
Graduation Alliance
06.2023 - 12.2023
- Daily outreach to interested candidates who are seeking to earn their high-school diploma through phone calls, texts, and emails.
- Vet out strong candidates by obtaining transcripts and state test scores.
- Mapping their credits to ensure they meet enrollment requirements based on their original cohort year.
- Create student portals for qualified candidates and assign their orientation course.
- Explain Graduation Alliance’s adult diploma program to candidates to ensure long-term success.
Seasonal Academic Success Coach
Graduation Alliance
03.2023 - 06.2023
- Provide academic and social emotional intervention. Implement strategic planning through continuous learning plans to ensure goals are met. Provide resources and tools to students and families to help maintain goals. Provide guidance to at risk students and help guide them through difficult situations. Monitor progress of each student/family through daily interactions that include: phone calls, video chats, and emails.
Health and Wellness Coordinator
Cano Health
01.2022 - 02.2023
- Oversee Health and Wellness program for the Rio Grande Valley. Create monthly calendars of different activities and classes offered in the clinic.
- Create events to promote the program and grow the patient base for the center.
- Foster Relationships with various insurance agents and agencies to sponsor center events.
- Keep an inventory of all supplies and fitness equipment monthly. Purchase needed supplies for the program.
- Maintain attendance records of patients participating in different classes.
- Update patient paperwork in the health center system.
- Schedule transportation for patients to and from the clinic in a timely manner.
2nd Grade ELA Teacher
IDEA Public Schools
07.2020 - 10.2021
- Deliver scripted lessons from Direct Instruction Curriculum in multiple areas of reading levels such as Decoding A, and Decoding B1,B2.
- Track reading progress and reading fluency through multiple trackers. Provide intervention to students who are not on grade level.
- Administer DIBELS testing to the whole grade level to identify high and low-performing students.
- Accommodate students under a 504 IEP. Maintain contact with parents to keep them informed of their child's progress.
- Foster positive relationships with parents, students, and fellow teachers.
- Create a positive and powerful learning environment where students can thrive.
- Update gradebook weekly to reflect students' accurate academic standings.
ABC Instructor
Good Samaritan Community Services/B.I.S.D
09.2017 - 03.2020
- Build curriculum and lessons around the Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets and deliver them in a classroom setting to youth in grades 5th-8th.
- Provide endangered youth in the 78520 area with the skill set taught by the developmental assets to better cope and grasp the different situations life can bring up.
- Educate students in the importance of seeking some form of higher education that sparks their interest/passions.
- Create and develop hands-on lessons that engage students for a 6-week summer program.
- Write monthly reports on classroom lessons and student improvement for board members and potential program donors.
- Track program budget to ensure materials are being purchased for appropriate lessons and activities.
Youth Service Specialist
Good Samaritan Community Services/B.I.S.D
02.2017 - 09.2017
- Assist and or create after-school activities and programs for selected school campuses.
- Create lesson plans that spark youth interest in physical/educational activities.
- Hold mini sports camps in gymnastics and cheerleading.
- Create youth-friendly exercise regimes to spark interest in a healthy lifestyle.
Recreational Gymnastics Coach
Tumbling Central
06.2014 - 07.2016
- Create fun ways to teach the basic fundamentals of gymnastics in order to advance.
- Create fun ways to exercise to build strengths that youth of different ages can master.
- Teach and choreograph routines for competitions.
Education
Youth Development
Texas A&M
03.2018
Kinesiology
UTB/UTRGV
05.2016
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Homer Hanna High School
06.2012
Skills
- Active Listener
- Self-Sufficient
- Public Speaking
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Power-point
Certification
- CPR/First Aid Certified
- Safe-Gaurding Children
- Certificate of Cultural Competence
- Youth Policy and Risk Management
- Foundations of Youth Adult Partnership
- Youth Programming
- Youth Development Approach
AWARDS
Teacher Bell Award: Russell Elementary,
Texas Associate Of The Month: Cano Health
Timeline
Academic Coach
Graduation Alliance
12.2023 - Current
Enrollment Counselor
Graduation Alliance
06.2023 - 12.2023
Seasonal Academic Success Coach
Graduation Alliance
03.2023 - 06.2023
Health and Wellness Coordinator
Cano Health
01.2022 - 02.2023
2nd Grade ELA Teacher
IDEA Public Schools
07.2020 - 10.2021
ABC Instructor
Good Samaritan Community Services/B.I.S.D
09.2017 - 03.2020
Youth Service Specialist
Good Samaritan Community Services/B.I.S.D
02.2017 - 09.2017
Recreational Gymnastics Coach
Tumbling Central
06.2014 - 07.2016
Youth Development
Texas A&M
Kinesiology
UTB/UTRGV
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Homer Hanna High School