Nicole Helget

- Case Management: Manage caseload of Tier 2,3, and 4 students who demonstrate high needs in behavior and academic challenges.
- Coordination of Care: Work closely with community and court systems, including officers, probation officers, guardian ad litems, foster parents, therapists, to coordinate follow-through on plans for therapy, probation, community service, academic achievement, and school attendance for students.
- Progress Monitoring: Track individual progress in social and emotional learning, as well as academic progress toward goals outlined in Individualized Education Plans and/or requirements from probation officers or judges per sentences.
- Collaboration with Services: Communicate regularly with social workers and other community resources including coaches, churches, nonprofits, corporations to seek and find necessary experiences and resources needed by the students, which could be anything from a place on the track team to housing for the child's family.
- Health and Safety: develop strong relationships based on trust with children to assess their safety and well-being in the home and in school. Make reports when necessary. Be a support to children during CPS interventions and interviews.
- Host Meetings: Prepare, organize, and host regular meetings among children, guardians, school staff, special education team members, and psychologists to determine eligibility for special education, determine accommodations and modifications, and strategies for implementation. Follow the law to ensure all the child's legal rights to fair and equal and least-restrictive environments are sanctioned in the Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
- Write and Maintain Caseload Records: Write, edit, revise, update, and file IEPs in accordance with district policy and state and federal law.
- Host Mediations and Circles: Use facilitative mediation and Restorative Circles to diffuse high-conflict situations between children and between children and adults.
- Organize Transportation: Coordinate specialized transportation to and from school and activities for children
- Teach Social and Emotional Learning classes featuring units and practice in Self-Management, Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making.
- Collaborate with Staff: Communicate and collaborate with other special education staff, counselors, administrators, community professions to design and implement best practices.

• Guide writers through the editing and publishing and marketing process of a book
• Write and negotiate contracts
• Edit fiction and nonfiction content for story, idea, continuity, structure, art, accuracy, and publishing goals
• Collaborate with layout and cover artists to design overall look of book
• Lead the book through the printing and distribution and reprinting processes
• Write press releases and marketing copy
• Host book release events
• Maintain relationships with critics, reviewers, and bookstore owners and managers to cultivate best placement for books and authors
• Mastery of digital editing software and sharing tools including Google Docs, Microsoft Suite, Adobe and familiarization with digital layout software such as Adobe InDesign.

• The End of the Wild, novel, Little Brown and Company, 2017
• A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
• A Parents' Choice Award Winner
• A Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book
• A New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
• A Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Book
• An Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students
• A Best STEM Trade Books for Students K-12
• A Georgia Children's Book Award Nominee
• A Minnesota Book Awards Middle Grade Winner
• Wonder at the Edge of the World, novel, Little, Brown and Company, April 2015
• Stillwater, novel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 2014
• The Turtle Catcher, novel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
• Love on the Wintry Prairie, essays, University of Minnesota Press (TBA)
• Be Good, Peanut Butter, picture book, RiverHorse Press, (TBA)
• Contract-for-Hire Author, dozens of children's nonfiction books, Capstone Press
• Contract-for-Hire Ghost-Writer, several books of various lengths and content, including agriculture
• Manufacturing, family history, and ophthamology.

• Imagine and create and implement the framework for a year-long project to guide writers through the process of writing a work of creative nonfiction/memoir
• Align project goals with mission of Arts Nonprofit
• Interview clients for participation; Assess present skills; Plan outline for progress and improvement
• Design the short-term and long-term benchmarks for overall project for each client
• Guide clients through writing process to complete an entire book in 12 months by preparing and executing weekly classes in writing craft elements, research, and revision
• Provide weekly verbal and written feedback on client's progress and product
• Evaluate +500 pages a week for clarity, continuity, imagination, and idea
• Interview and host guest speakers and publishing professionals
• Moderate interviews and questions and answers with guest speakers and publishing professionals
• Serve as point-of-contact between clients and Loft administration
• Market and publicize the project on social media, in print, and in person to attract new clients and appeal to board members, donars, and other stake holders
• Manage and stay within budget
• Track the short-term and long-term benchmarks for overall project and each client
• Mastery of digital writing and editing softwares and sharing tools, including Microsoft Suite, Google Docs review, editing, sharing functions.

• Daily social media content creation, weekly customer email, and monthly newsletter content related to wine and spirits education, craft beer, winery, and spiritis company profiles, event invitations, and employee profiles.