Samantha Shockley

Educational professional, prepared to drive student achievement and instructional excellence. Proven ability to implement effective teaching methods and foster collaborative learning environment. Reliable team player with focus on adaptability and student success.

• Helped author school improvement plans
• School Literacy Lead
• Dibels School Testing Coordinator 2025
• Member of OKES's instructional leadership team
• Helped create the school's vision and mission statements
• Created data trackers for all faculty and students
• Analyzed school data and created action plans
• Facilitates teacher collaboration meetings or clusters and presented professional development according to the needs found from the data
• Conducted field research and collected data to determine if it should be implemented school-wide
• Implemented goal-setting and goal-oriented conversations with teachers and students, data displays throughout the school
• Designed incentives and moments of appreciation for teachers and students to promote a positive culture (Blast off to reading - earned AR points in a certain amount of time), called home with positive reports, and encouraged teachers to do this weekly
• Completed the Aspiring Leader cohort through the Orchard Foundation
• Mentor Teacher 2022-2025
• NIET evaluator 2021-2023, 2025
• Class evaluator 2021-2022
• Completed feedback cycles with multiple teachers
• Mentor to new teachers
• Created schedules and calendars for the faculty
• Celebrate successes with faculty shout-out bulletin boards
• Assisted in conferences with parents, mainly literacy
• Promoted faculty well-being by facilitating monthly meetings with fun activities and treats
• Supported teachers in the creation and tracking of SLT's
• Completed LETRS local Facilitator Training
• K-2 Literacy Content Leader Trained through APEL

-presented at Allen Parish Teacher Summit-2024

-presented at K-2 District level meetings-2022-2024

-presented at Allen Parish New Teacher Workshop-2024

-presented data reports and findings to The Center for Literacy and Learning Foundation representative-2024

-presented at weekly cluster meetings on school campus-2021-current

-presented at weekly ILT meetings 2021-current

SPS- Through work on ILT, OKES has doubled proficiency scores in ELA and Math since 2021.

K-2 Overall- Dibels proficiency increase of over 20 percent points each year I have served as K-2 Master Teacher

Supported a first year teacher to achieve 70% proficiency on Dibels 8 Literacy Screener

Developed action plan that resulted in 77% of target students scoring one achievement score higher on Eureka 2 Benchmark assessments

-District DRC Committee-2024

- School Level Incentive Committee-2022-2024

Louisiana Department of Education Numeracy Community of Practice 2025

Louisiana Department of Education CLSD UIN Community of Practice 2025

APEL-2025

NIET LEADERSHIP NETWORK 2024-2025

NIET Evaluator

Mentor Teacher

LETRS Local Facilitator

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