Sarah Jolly Swift
Pineville,USA
Summary
Experienced Senior Specialist with strong interpersonal skills and a passion for collaboratively growing teachers while empowering students through high-quality education for all. Utilizes purposeful data to design, develop, and implement professional development activities that equip learners with the necessary tools and supports to ensure that learning experiences are efficient, effective, and engaging for all. Demonstrated ability to quickly establish rapport and trust with peers, partners, and stakeholders to support a vision of educator excellence to increase impact for all students.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Specialist
NIET
Scottsdale, AZ
07.2021 - Current
- Developed and facilitated content for signature events including National Conference, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Field-tested instructional strategies and professional learning concepts prior to National Conference session development to analyze implementation effectiveness, strengthen instructional relevance, and ensure alignment to improved teacher practice and student outcomes.
- Developed and facilitated content for regional collaborative professional development.
- Spearheaded design, facilitation, and implementation of high-quality professional learning initiatives for system-wide rollout of new HQIM math curriculum that resulted in increased student mastery.
- Led the facilitation of Summer Institute sessions, adhering to facilitator best practices and ensuring quality of execution.
- Developed comprehensive scripts and narration content for NIET prep presentation, enhancing engagement for EE PASS video learning series.
- Directed collaborative small-group project to develop professional learning materials for ELA guidebook training.
- Created and led professional development sessions focused on skill enhancement and growth in numeracy and math content for internal teams.
- Facilitated cross-team collaboration to develop content that enhances project implementation and refines support quality.
- Supported onboarding of new specialists through structured shadowing and comprehensive guidance on best practices and organizational resources.
- Collaborated with specialists to complete the PSBP Tool pilot to define expectations for high quality support.
- Collaborated with the PLT to support the successful completion of Tennessee RFP.
- Consistently delivered high-quality partner support and professional learning experiences, resulting in positive partner feedback and strong satisfaction with the quality, relevance, and impact of services provided.
- Maintained and refined Partner Support Plans across multiple districts to ensure aligned, responsive, and high-quality service delivery.
- Provided timely follow-up communication and monthly district summaries that strengthened partnership alignment, transparency, and coherence.
- Proactively coordinated services and special projects through strategic scheduling, accurate documentation, and consistent completion of organizational deliverables and internal project work.
- Facilitated professional development sessions for the Louisiana Department of education including Teacher Leader, LER, and LLCR, and LEADS extension trainings.
TAP Master teacher
WO Hall 6th Grade Academy
Alexandria, LA
01.2017 - Current
- Assist in developing the school wide plan aligned with district vision, utilizing multiple data points from academic and PBIS/MTSS sources with SPS impact.
- Create short and Long range plans for embedded professional development throughout the academic year with cluster goals aligned to the SWP, LT long range plan, and priority needs from needs assessment.
- Conference with Lead teachers in the district with their long range planning for professional development.
- Monitor SLT and cycle goal setting, assess goal attainment, and report findings at quarterly and end of year district data talks.
- Field test instructional strategies to evaluate their effectiveness and identify critical attributes to plan for and coordinate ongoing professional development for teachers and support student growth in grade level content and skills through tier 1 curricula.
- Provide multi-tiered system of support for all students with additional RTI time provided and mentoring opportunities, progress monitoring
- Create schedules to maximize mentor and master teacher time in classrooms.
- Analyze diagnostic data and with the RTI team places students into groups based on individual needs, teaches, and progress monitors data for the school’s math RTI and tutoring programs.
- Offer resources to mentor and career teachers for curriculum, content, and building leadership capacity and unit planning meetings.
- Work with leadership team to utilize learning walk data to create individual coaching plans and modify plans to build the capacity of all educators on campus.
- Conduct formal and informal evaluations of all teachers on campus, providing followup support plans through conferencing with student work driven data talks.
TAP Math and Science Mentor teacher, 3rd grade
Julius Patrick Elementary
Alexandria, LA
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Increase student proficiency and serve on the leadership team for JPE with full letter grade gains from 2016-2017 through Monitoring students data and their progress towards mastery as well as providing a student goal driven environment.
- Provided mentees activities and materials to ensure academic growth. Including creating multidisciplinary centers integrating iPads for lessons involving discovery based learning.
- Used conceptual strategies to teach the math and science curriculum as well as ELA based skill cycles through embedded PD cycles during the TAP cluster cycle process.
- Coached teachers on strategies to implement within their classrooms that build proficiency for both their students and their understanding of the rubric as well as ways to increase student growth through the learning environment.
- Maintained portfolio and classroom demonstrations showing instructional capacity as shown in mid-year and end of year NIET implementation scores.
4th/5th grade teacher, Teacher Leader
L.S. Rugg Elementary
Alexandria, LA
01.2008 - 01.2015
- 5th grade math and science teacher and Administration chosen representative teacher leader for campus for Math instruction from 2010-2015.
- Led and presented multiple professional development sessions for faculty and staff on STACKS rotations, technology use with science and math curriculum.
- Presented Eureka math implementation strategies and supplemental best practices for school and district wide 3rd-5th grade.
- 4th grade teacher for all content areas from 2008-2010 for target student group at risk of not meeting the criteria for proficiency/promotion
Education
M.ED. - Educational Technology and Leadership K-12
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA12-2012
B.S. - Elementary Education Grades 1-6
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA05-2008
Skills
- Innovative
- Analytical thinking
- Partner Satisfaction and Support Quality
- Documentation management
- Team collaboration
- Coaching and mentoring
- Continuous improvement
Certification
- Current Level: EDL 1 Number: 629352
- Add on Areas of Certification/Endorsement: (235) Educational technology facilitator ; (236)Educational technology leader
- State: Louisiana
- Issue Date: 2021-05-13
Timeline
Senior Specialist
NIET
07.2021 - Current
TAP Master teacher
WO Hall 6th Grade Academy
01.2017 - Current
TAP Math and Science Mentor teacher, 3rd grade
Julius Patrick Elementary
01.2015 - 01.2017
4th/5th grade teacher, Teacher Leader
L.S. Rugg Elementary
01.2008 - 01.2015
B.S. - Elementary Education Grades 1-6
Northwestern State University
M.ED. - Educational Technology and Leadership K-12
Northwestern State University
Professional Development
- 2021-05-01, Louisiana Teacher Leader Summit with a focus in assessing student mastery, instructionally supporting teachers, and administrative sessions.
- 2021-03-01, Completed Rapides Leadership Academy (2 year)
- 2021-02-01, MTSS PBIS Training and Certification and De-Escalation strategies with Jesse Jackson
- 2020-08-01, Planned and led virtual learning inservice and orientation for parents and students. Created digital sign in sheets, technology requests, check out forms.
- 2020-08-01, Created materials for virtual open house including registration through secured google forms, school tour video, updated school website, and provided schoology training for students, parents and teachers for digital learning.
- 2020-07-01, Participated in the transitional math team for the district creating math assessments for grade 6-8, providing review process and resources to address unfinished learning.
- 2020-07-01, Completed virtual summer school instruction for 6th grade math and science for school campus.
- 2020-06-01, Received professional development training in Google Meet Training
- 2020-06-01, Completed Schoology Training 6 hour course for redelivery in August 2020 to faculty.
- 2020-03-01, Earned Middle/Secondary Math content leader certification via Dana C. Center in Austin, TX for the guidelines set by the state of Louisiana.
- 2020-02-01, Completed Aspiring Leader training through the Orchard Foundation.
- 2019-01-01, Google classroom trained and implementation coach
- 2017-03-01, Obtained Kagan Coach certification to support teachers and district level curriculum specialists with strategies for collaborative and cooperative grouping as well as providing feedback and support to teachers in reference to cooperative learning.
- 2017-01-01, Completed walk through observations with state support teams using the LDOE rubric for Tier 1 curriculums to gauge effective implementation of curriculum in classrooms and participate in feedback/coaching support sessions with teachers and administration in Math and ELA.
- 2017-01-01, Led Assessment guide redelivery to faculty and parents on the changes to the social studies assessment as well as instruction on locating the tools for technology assessments that will be implemented for the 5th grade students testing.
- 2016-03-01, Apple teacher certified/trained, support to teachers with integrating and implementing technology into the classroom to help students with concept development and application of learning as well as evaluation of objectives learned.
- 2016-08-01, TAP Core and evaluator certified to support teachers and students and provide specific targeted growth focused feedback.
- 2016-05-01, Led cohort at LaSIP TERM project at Louisiana State University at Alexandria as a teacher instructor. Developed lessons, implemented activities and materials for concept development with and presented to teachers in grades k-6th strategies for best practices in effective and engaging math instruction.
- 2016-08-01, Led professional development sessions for Science 3rd-5th grade teachers in Rapides and surrounding parishes on Science discovery learning tasks and activities to meet the complexities of the changing shift in standards to create more hands-on, student-led experiences and opportunities.
- 2016-01-01, Created online resources for teachers and district administrators including resource tutorials and module instructional videos with the implementation of Eureka math for 5th grade. Collaborated with district level math team to create materials, schedules, and topics for implementation.
- 2014-05-01, Created Science framework for Rapides parish for grade 5 and built assessments for the standards shift and framework changes. With district curriculum specialist presented professional development sessions district wide on the implementation of the science framework in August of 2014.