Focused education professional with master's degree in educational leadership and experience helping students achieve education goals. Collaborated with teachers and educational professionals to improve lesson plans and curriculum. Talented at building lasting relationships and partnering with others to meet objectives.
Hi, I’m
Sandra Salinas
Assistant Principal of Instruction
Edinburg,Tx
Summary
Overview
10
years of professional experience
Work History
IDEA Public Schools
Assistant Principal of Instruction
07.2019 - Current
Job overview
- High School Assistant Principal
- 10th Grade Admin- Attendance and Discipline Lead
- Coach and mentor New and Veteran teachers
- All Teachers reach proficiency in the GET rubric
- Special emphasis in providing support and feedback for lesson planning and tracking student learning
- Provide coaching through observations, debriefs, and real-time feedback
- Support campus lead team in providing professional development
- Provide development-driven content meetings and building a content learning community
- Support in creation of whole-campus professional development
- Monitored student progress and implemented intervention strategies to support student success.
- Communicated with parents to encourage active parental participation in education.
- Trained teachers on effective teaching techniques, classroom management strategies, and behavior modification.
- Performed classroom evaluations to assess teacher strategies and effectiveness.
- Kept school in full compliance with established policies, legal requirements and student safety standards.
- Maintained school focus on learning by enforcing rules related to academics, student discipline and class attendance.
- Observed teachers, documented activities and implemented improvement plans to optimize classrooms.
- Studied assessment information covering students, teachers and school operations to formulate improvement plans.
- Verified student grades, attendance and schedules.
- Helped students develop organizational, time management and study skills.
- Worked with individuals to help understand and overcome personal, social or behavioral problems affecting educational or vocational situations.
- AP/College Board Coordinator
- TSTEM Coordinator
- Testing Coordinator Supervisor
- NMSI Coordinator
IDEA Public Schools
Content Leader and Grade Team Leader
08.2016 - 05.2019
Job overview
- Provide feedback to content team on classroom observations
- Build team culture with content team teachers and respond to breakdowns in team culture
- New Teachers are on-boarded and set up for success
- Analyze content team data
- Manage time and content leader tasks
- Attend any district-led teacher leader training (including but not limited to Teacher Leader Foundations and content trainings from Talent Development Team and Academic Services Team
- Attend all campus-led teacher leader professional development (meetings, training, etc.)
- Attend all Course Collaborations for the content the teacher leader is supporting as a CTL
- Aid Campus lead team in preparing budget needs and acquiring content materials
- Support campus staff in prioritizing content materials and resources from campus
- Communicate regularly with campus Teacher Leader point-person
- Build team culture and respond to breakdowns in team culture
- Creates a team attitude of “All of these students in our grade level are ALL of our students.”
- Grade level student culture is established at compliance and then on to culture of achievement
- Empowers teachers to be the ‘first responders’ for behavior management
- Maintain healthy relationships and communication parents, team, and lead team
- Communicate with parents proactively about goals, expectations, and progress towards goals
- Provide feedback through crucial conversations with parents/staff
- Act as team's liaison with campus lead team
- Special emphasis in providing support and feedback for investing students/stakeholders and creating a culture of achievement
- Provide coaching through observations, debriefs, and real-time feedback
- Support campus lead team in providing professional development
- Facilitate development-driven grade team meetings
- Support in creation of whole-campus professional development
- Analyze grade team data for High-Risk Meeting
- Lead team to organize and execute grade-level projects
- Collaborate with stakeholders (on-campus and district-wide) to lead meaningful learning experiences
- Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in educational process.
- Prepared materials for lessons, assignments, and assessments, and evaluated, corrected and graded student performance to identify gaps in skills or knowledge and set realistic goals.
- Adapted lessons to differentiate instruction and meet students' diverse learning needs and abilities.
- Created supportive and inclusive learning environments, fostering positive classroom atmospheres supporting student growth and learning.
- Communicated student progress, academic difficulties, or behavioral concerns to parents, guardians and administration using tact and professionalism to improve student academic performance.
- Worked one-on-one with students to determine strengths, weaknesses, and learning patterns.
- Built positive relationships with parents to involve families in educational process.
- Implemented classroom management improvements to enhance class morale and engagement.
- Integrated technology and multimedia tools into lessons to enhance student learning.
- Taught students subject-specific material, learning strategies, and social skills.
- Provided individualized and diversified instruction to support student comprehension and assist with navigating challenges.
IDEA Public Schools
High School Teacher/Middle School Social Studies Teacher
08.2012 - 05.2019
Job overview
- Master Teacher
- Planned learning activities that provided students with opportunities to observe, question and investigate social studies topics.
- Established and supported positive educational environment for student learning.
- Consulted with teachers in other disciplines to identify and adopt successful instructional strategies.
- Utilized technology to enhance student education and grasp of materials.
- Established and communicated clear learning objectives and expectations to students.
- Devised lesson plans reflecting student educational, cultural and language diversity.
- Created lesson plans and made adjustments based on overall class performance throughout year.
- Developed instructional aids for classroom use and encouraged student participation.
- Conducted regular parent-teacher conferences to keep parents informed of student progress.
- Educated students regarding national and global social issues and influencing factors.
- Attended department meetings to develop and update course curricula.
- Helped students develop important learning skills and good study habits useful in trade school or college education.
- Met or exceeded course and student performance goals.
- Gave assignments, graded work and regularly discussed performance with students.
- Discussed important historical figures, dates and events which helped shape modern world.
- Completed documentation of attendance, grades and other required details.
- Researched latest teaching techniques and incorporated into lesson delivery to improve concept acquisition.
- Maintained awareness of relevant current events and quickly incorporated study into curriculum.
- Worked with principal's office on disciplinary and safety issues.
- Proctored quizzes, tests and standardized examinations.
- Led classroom activities for play-based and immersive learning.
- Encouraged consistent classroom attendance and managed student behavior using constructive criticism.
Education
Lamar UniversityBeaumont, TX
Principal Certification from Principal Certification
03.2025
University Overview
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Master's degree from Educational Leadership and Administration, General
2018
University Overview
Kaplan University
Bachelor of Science (B.S from communications
2010
University Overview
Skills
- School Community Relations
- Annual Reviews
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Instructional Leadership
- Enforce Discipline
- Observe Teachers
- Microsoft Office
- Instructional Techniques
- Organizational Leadership
- Continuous Improvement Strategies
- Classroom Instruction
- Leadership Support
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- In charge of leading the Campus goal of obtaining 30% of students become AP Scholars by the end of the year : School year 2020 : 38% , School year 2021: 36% , School year 2022: 28%
- Beginning of my API Career – we started with a list of 10 AP Courses, and we are currently providing 15 AP Courses
- Organizing and administering the AP programs at campus level
- Manage the ordering, receipt, distribution, administration, and return of AP Exam materials
- IDEA Alamo College Preparatory has been rated an A rated campus for three years in a row
- 100% of teachers trained to proficient in their AP content by attending NMSI training
- 30% AP Scholars for the campus.
Certification
- Certified 4-8 SS/ELA Teaching Certification
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Assistant Principal of Instruction
IDEA Public Schools
07.2019 - Current
Content Leader and Grade Team Leader
IDEA Public Schools
08.2016 - 05.2019
High School Teacher/Middle School Social Studies Teacher
IDEA Public Schools
08.2012 - 05.2019
Lamar University
Principal Certification from Principal Certification
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Master's degree from Educational Leadership and Administration, General
Kaplan University
Bachelor of Science (B.S from communications
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