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Safini Convey

Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Employee # 685001

Dedicated and innovative National Board Certified educator committed to supporting all students' academic, social, and emotional growth. Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative, methodical, and results-driven. Experienced mentor with ability to guide candidate teachers to create and work towards actionable and measurable goals.

Overview

31
31
years of professional experience

Work History

Classroom Teacher, Mt. Washington Elementary

LAUSD
Los Angeles, CA
09.1996 - Current
  • Current 3rd grade teacher. Experience teaching grades 1 - 5 as well as split grade classes. Teaches afterschool intervention class for select students.
  • Analyzes student data to set instructional goals, assesses effectiveness of instruction, and establishes new goals based on Common Core State standards for entire class, small groups, and individuals.
  • Creates warm and engaging classroom environment where students feel safe to take intellectual risks.
  • Member of school's Instructional Leadership Team
  • Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Coordinator. Creates schedule for itinerant VAPA teachers. Communicates with participating teachers, itinerants, and administrator to ensure program runs smoothly.

Teacher Growth and Induction (TGI) Mentor

LAUSD
Los Angeles, CA
09.2019 - Current
  • Mentored 5 Candidate Teachers (CTs) to date. Meets weekly/ biweekly with CTs to provide individualized mentoring based on CTs' experience and identified areas of strength and needs.
  • Provides support in areas such as classroom management, communication with family and colleagues, lesson planning, assessment, and data analysis while working towards established qualitative and quantitative goals based on CSTP and TLF.
  • Conducts classroom observations and provides feedback.
  • Keeps accurate and timely documentation of activities on several platforms while maintaining confidentiality.

Facilitator

LAUSD - GATE
Los Angeles, CA
08.2020 - Current
  • Hosts GATE salary point class on Arts Integration (offered quarterly) on Zoom.
  • Creates forms to track participant attendance, monitors chat, opens/closes breakout rooms, collaborates with fellow facilitators on pacing and presentation.

Mentor

LAUSD
Los Angeles, California
09.2018 - 06.2019
  • Mentored new Special Education Resource Teacher.
  • Identified supportive professional resources and instructional materials, collaboratively problem solved classroom challenges, maintained strict confidentiality.

Presenter

LAUSD, New Teacher Summer Institute
Los Angeles, CA
06.2018 - 06.2018
  • Created and delivered professional development sessions on differentiation in mathematics instruction at LAUSD's New Teacher Summer Institute.

Education

Master of Arts - Curriculum and Instruction Option

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, CA
06.2010

Multiple Subject Teaching Credential -

California State University - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
06.1998

Bachelor of Arts - History

University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
12.1993

Skills

  • Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
  • 95% Group Multisyllabic Routines
  • LETRS Training (in process)
  • Reader's & Writer's Workshop
  • Responsive Classroom
  • Restorative Justice
  • Cognitively Guided Instruction
  • Foundations of Coaching 1, 2, 3
  • Depth and Complexity
  • Gifted and Talented Education
  • Project Based Learning
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Accomplishments

  • National Board Certified Teacher, 2017 Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
  • Awards: Bravo Award, 2008 Winner Awarded by the Music Center for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Education; CSULA Platinum Apple Award, 1998 Outstanding Student Teacher

References

Gina Gravino

Principal, Mt. Washington Elementary

gxg4631@lausd.net / 323.225-8320

*Current administrator


Deborah Galvan

Resource Program Teacher, Mt. Washington Elementary

des1133@lausd.net / 323.225.8320

* Colleague


Carla Paz

Classroom Teacher, Mt. Washington Elementary

cml0119@lausd.net / 323.225.8320

* Grade level colleague


Cheryl Amberger

New Teacher Induction Specialist, Teacher Growth and Induction

cheryl.amberger@lausd.net / 213.241.4252

* Mentor for my work with the Teacher Growth and Induction program





Timeline

Facilitator

LAUSD - GATE
08.2020 - Current

Teacher Growth and Induction (TGI) Mentor

LAUSD
09.2019 - Current

Mentor

LAUSD
09.2018 - 06.2019

Presenter

LAUSD, New Teacher Summer Institute
06.2018 - 06.2018

Classroom Teacher, Mt. Washington Elementary

LAUSD
09.1996 - Current

Master of Arts - Curriculum and Instruction Option

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Multiple Subject Teaching Credential -

California State University - Los Angeles

Bachelor of Arts - History

University of California - Los Angeles

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