Dr. Rhonda J. Finding
Parrish,FL
Summary
Passionate Literacy Coach with 20 years of supporting academic goal achievement. Evaluates student literacy needs and implements individualized lesson plans. Well-versed in student needs assessment and curriculum.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
MTSS Coach
Maximo Elementary School
07.2024 - Current
- Provide guidance and resources to teachers on implementing MTSS principles and practices, including problem-solving processes, data analysis, and intervention strategies.
- Design and deliver ongoing professional development to staff on various aspects of MTSS, including data literacy, instructional strategies, and intervention techniques.
- Support teachers in using data to identify student needs, monitor progress, and make data-informed decisions about instruction and interventions.
- Facilitate collaborative problem-solving among staff, build strong partnerships with families, and ensure clear communication regarding student progress and supports.
- Model and support best practices in instruction, including differentiated instruction and the use of evidence-based interventions.
- Provide leadership to ensure the sustainability of MTSS systems and practices across the school, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Assist teachers in developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for students who need additional support.
- Monitor the effectiveness of MTSS practices and interventions, making adjustments as needed to ensure ongoing improvement and student success.
Substitute teacher with Kelly Services
Hillsborough County School District
01.2024 - 05.2024
- Substitute teacher with Kelly Services
- ELP teacher at West Tampa Elementary
Early Childhood Education Literacy and Grants Management Specialist
Arizona Department of Education
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Provide assistance to 0-5 years educators in Arizona in meeting students' education needs by performing the following functions: curriculum implementation, instructional support for the classroom, instructional support for assessment, coaching and conferencing, providing teachers with action plans based on data, site support and professional growth.
- Design, build and implement the Pyramid Model throughout the state of Arizona.
- Create and provide professional development for teachers in a variety of areas: analyzing data, creating lesson objectives to align with state curriculum, common core state standards, backwards planning, and measuring student success with different assessments.
- Provide professional development training in the areas of reading, writing, data-driven instruction, Science of Reading and Social Emotional Learning.
- Participated in writing the grant for, Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5).
- Serves as a grants management specialist in providing grantees advice and guidance to in completing their grant writing application.
- Serves as a liaison to grantees to promote practices that are compliant with statutes, regulations, best practices and other objectives specific to their grants.
- Managed and monitored grants for CSLD (Comprehensive Literacy State Development) grant. Including creating rubrics for pre-award process, entering grant information into the data system, building the grant, pre-award process, overseeing the CLSD grantees and the implementation of the grant in their school settling and providing technical assistance for monthly monitoring with the grant.
- Worked with Teaching Strategies Gold (TSG) in regards to the Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA) and Early Childhood Educators (ECE) data analysis for their schools and teachers.
Reading Interventionist/Master Teacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Work extensively with K-3 students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies.
- Plan and prepare with teachers using backwards planning tool, ELA schedules, small group instruction based on student data, assessments that assess student progress and implementation of differentiation based on district assessments.
- Provide assistance to K-3 teachers in meeting students' education needs by performing the following functions: curriculum implementation, instructional support for the classroom, instructional support for assessment, coaching and conferencing, providing teachers with action plans based on data, site support and professional growth.
- Create and implement instructional methods for K-3 students struggling in ELA.
- Create interventions based on students learning needs and styles that differ from what the classroom teacher is doing.
- Created instructional groups for teachers and IAs based on student data from district assessment.
- Provide professional development training in the areas of reading, writing, data-driven instruction, science of Reading and curriculum.
Literacy Coach
West Tampa Elementary School
01.2020 - 12.2022
- Provide assistance to K-5 teachers in meeting students' education needs by performing the following functions: curriculum implementation, instructional support for the classroom, instructional support for assessment, coaching and conferencing, providing teachers with action plans based on data, site support and professional growth.
- Reading Leadership Coordinator.
- PSLT (Problem Solving Leadership Team).
- Design action plans for school and grade levels based on data.
- Create weekly objectives for grade levels that are aligned to student needs.
- Provide professional development for teachers in a variety of areas: analyzing data, creating lesson objectives to align with state curriculum, common core state standards, backwards planning, and measuring student success with different assessments.
- Create curriculum maps and lessons to be implemented in classrooms based on CCSS and BEST Standards.
- Provide professional development training in the areas of reading, writing, data-driven instruction, science of Reading and curriculum.
Part-Time Adjunct
University of Tampa
01.2019 - 12.2022
- Human Development for Educators
Literacy Coach
Crestwood Elementary School
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Provide assistance to K-5 teachers in meeting students' education needs by performing the following functions: curriculum implementation, instructional support for the classroom, instructional support for assessment, coaching and conferencing, providing teachers with action plans based on data, site support and professional growth.
- Reading Leadership Coordinator.
- PSLT (Problem Solving Leadership Team).
- Design action plans for school and grade levels based on data.
- Create weekly objectives for grade levels that are aligned to student needs.
- Provide professional development for teachers in a variety of areas: analyzing data, creating lesson objectives to align with state curriculum, common core state standards, backwards planning, and measuring student success with different assessments.
- Create curriculum maps and lessons to be implemented in classrooms based on CCSS and BEST Standards.
- Provide professional development training in the areas of reading, writing, data-driven instruction, science of Reading and curriculum.
1st, 2nd and 5th Grade Teacher
West Tampa Elementary School
01.2015 - 12.2019
- Taught all subject areas.
- Professional Learning Community Facilitator.
- CHAMPS Behavior Specialist.
- Designed curriculum for 1st and 5th grades.
Literacy Coach
Riverhills Elementary School
01.2009 - 12.2015
- Provided assistance to K-5 teachers in meeting students' educational needs by performing the following functions: curriculum implementation, instructional support for the classroom, instructional support for assessment, coaching and conferencing, providing teachers with action plans based on data, site support and professional growth.
- Reading Leadership Coordinator.
- PSLT (Problem Solving Leadership Team).
- Designed action plans for school and grade levels based on data.
- Create weekly objectives for grade levels that are aligned to student needs.
- Provided professional development for teachers in a variety of areas: analyzing data, creating lesson objectives to align with state curriculum, common core state standards, backwards planning, and measuring student success with different assessments.
- Created curriculum maps and lessons to be implemented in classrooms based on CCSS.
- Provided professional development training in the areas of reading, writing, data-driven instruction, and curriculum.
Third Grade Teacher
Tampa Bay Blvd. Elementary School
01.2006 - 12.2009
- Taught all subject areas.
- Professional Learning Community Facilitator.
- Discipline Committee
Education
PhD - Curriculum and Instruction
Capella University
01.2014
MA - Elementary Education Supervision
Baldwin Wallace College
01.2000
BA - Psychology
Cleveland State University
01.1994
Associate Degree - Social Service
University of Akron
01.1992
Technology Experience
- Nearpod
- Zoom
- Padlet
- Flipgrid
- Kahoot
- Google docs and slides
- Excel, word document, pdf formatting and Microsoft office
Certification
- Arizona Department of Education PK-3
- Florida Department of Education PK-3
- English as a Second Language
- Reading Endorsement
Professional Development
- Making Sense of Phonics
- Teach Like Pirate (Student Engagement)
- Making Thinking Visible (Student Engagement)
- High Order Questioning I and II
- SCAMPER your way to a differentiated Class
- Backwards planning
- Comprehension Connections
- Diving into data sorts
- Intentional Planning
- Scaffolding your way through a lesson
- Science of Reading
Professional Achievements
- 01/01/97, Started a Victim's Assistance Program
- 01/01/11, Ida S. Baker Diversity Educator of the Year Award
- 01/01/12, Ida S. Baker Diversity Educator of the Year Award
- 01/01/12, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/13, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/14, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/15, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/16, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/17, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/18, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/19, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/20, Highly Effective Teacher for Hillsborough County
- 01/01/16, Highest Impact Teacher for the State of Florida
Grant Management Experience
- Grant writing proposal for Rape Crisis Center, Victim's Assistance Program, PDG B-5 and CLSD for government agencies.
- Stay informed of funding, policy, and programmatic trends with victims of crime and education.
- Responsible for drafting, revising, and enhancing the training materials in proposal development and writing.
- Support grantees with technical assistance with grants and writing their grants.
- Serve as a liaison to all funding agencies and organizations, developing collaborative relationships with grant funding representatives.
- Followed up all submitted proposals to ensure they received thorough reviews and receive feedback on unsuccessful proposals.
- Proof-read and edit technical documents including but not limited to grant proposals, cooperative agreements, contracts, and presentations.
Dissertation
A Case Study of the Collaboration Between Literacy Coach and Teacher to Inform Instructional Decisions in the Classroom.
Timeline
MTSS Coach
Maximo Elementary School
07.2024 - Current
Substitute teacher with Kelly Services
Hillsborough County School District
01.2024 - 05.2024
Early Childhood Education Literacy and Grants Management Specialist
Arizona Department of Education
01.2022 - 01.2024
Reading Interventionist/Master Teacher
Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School
01.2022 - 12.2022
Literacy Coach
West Tampa Elementary School
01.2020 - 12.2022
Part-Time Adjunct
University of Tampa
01.2019 - 12.2022
Literacy Coach
Crestwood Elementary School
01.2019 - 12.2020
1st, 2nd and 5th Grade Teacher
West Tampa Elementary School
01.2015 - 12.2019
Literacy Coach
Riverhills Elementary School
01.2009 - 12.2015
Third Grade Teacher
Tampa Bay Blvd. Elementary School
01.2006 - 12.2009
MA - Elementary Education Supervision
Baldwin Wallace College
BA - Psychology
Cleveland State University
Associate Degree - Social Service
University of Akron
PhD - Curriculum and Instruction
Capella University
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