Experienced with coordinating student enrollment processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. Utilizes strong organizational skills to manage large volumes of data and documentation. Track record of building positive relationships with students and staff, fostering collaborative environment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Matching and Enrollment Specialist
Big Brothers Big Sisters
10.2023 - Current
Conduct home visits for families and volunteers to ascertain interests, personality, and preferences to find the highest quality match.
Synthesize multiple sources of information into a detailed 6-9 page summary that includes interests, goals for a match, mental and physical health diagnosis, trauma history and matching preferences.
Participate and lead a twice weekly meeting to create matches between Littles and volunteers based on several criteria.
Facilitate a 20-30 minute match introduction to establish communication between families and volunteers, discuss scheduling, and collect paperwork.
Conduct safety checks on newly created matches to ascertain any potential issues and address any safety concerns.
Help train new staff by having them shadow home visits and providing feedback on summaries.
6th grade English and Social Studies teacher
Raytown Central Middle School
07.2021 - 05.2023
Triaging and supporting Tier 2 and Tier 3 students with high social emotional needs daily to help them meet their daily goals
Piloting a rigorous online curriculum to increase students reading level by one year or more
Observations and feedback sessions with school leaders to best improve classroom practices
Collaboration with grade team on curriculum implementation and troubleshooting issues that arise
Mentoring a new teacher by meeting once a month to discuss issues and come up with solutions to implement in the classroom as well as observation and feedback sessions
Working together with other 6th grade teachers across the district to select a new middle school curriculum that would meet our students’ needs
7th and 8th grade English and Avid teacher
Paseo Academy for the Fine and Performing Arts
07.2019 - 05.2021
Adapting in-person lessons to virtual zoom lessons utilizing digital programs like Nearpod, Padlet, Hyperdocs, and google applications
Collaborating with the curriculum coordinator to develop the 2020 summer school digital curriculum that had a focus on how students can advocate for the environment
Monthly planning meetings with instructional coach to outline standards based instructional units that provided students with real world, hands on experiences
Collaborative grade team meetings with school and district leaders to discuss student data and create plans to work students who were not meeting their academic goals