Selena Masse, Ed.S., NBCT
Durham,NC
Summary
Innovative National Board Certified Teacher skilled at promoting active learning through multiple learning approaches and using data to drive instruction seeks a role specializing in education, curriculum, mentoring, and training teachers.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Middle Grades Social Studies Teacher
Orange County Schools (C.W. Stanford Middle/Orange Middle School) and Person County Schools (Southern Middle School)
08.2000 - Current
- Instructed more than 3000 middle school students through lectures, discussions, group activities and demonstrations
- Improved student comprehension by utilizing diverse teaching methods and materials tailored to individual learning styles.
- Consistently use data to drive instruction on tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress
- Enhanced critical thinking skills for students through engaging debates and inquiry-based activities.
- Collaborated regularly with other faculty members to discuss program curriculum, administrative agenda, and other related items of importance
- Assisted and coordinated in various activities by serving as a member of the county Curriculum Review Team, Superintendent's Teacher Advisory Council, social studies department chair, 7th grade team leader, member of the School Improvement Team, peer observer, mentor teacher, and co-chair of the National Junior Honor Society.
Teacher Trainer
North Carolina Teacher Academy
08.2005 - 07.2011
- Customized staff development for teachers and administrators in individual schools and/or districts to address specific instructional needs to improve student achievement and fill the professional development needs as outlined in their school improvement plans
- Supported initially-licensed teachers and candidates for National Board Certification to enhance teacher leadership skills
- Taught summer academies that offered in-depth staff development in National Boards, Differentiated Instruction and Learning, Adolescent Brain Development, and Curriculum Mapping
- Used role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos and lectures to instruct teachers and principals in a variety of ways.
Education
Doctorate in Curriculum And Teaching
National University
12.2025
Specialist of Education - Curriculum and Teaching
Northcentral University
07.2022
Master's in Education - Middle Grades Education with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction
North Carolina Central University
05.2003
Bachelor of Science - Social Science Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
05.2000
Accomplishments And Awards
- Collaborated with the Holocaust Speakers Bureau on curriculum since 2016 to 2024 to bring in traveling exhibits and guest speakers to students at Orange Middle School
- Organized and facilitated in-person and virtual guest speaker learning experiences for students based on literacy integration and books students read in social studies. These included: Dr. Christine Darden, featured in the book Hidden Figures, Kathleen Burkinshaw, author of The Last Cherry Blossom, and Bonnie Hauser, daughter of Rebecca Hauser, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Students read her mother's memoir, My Simple Life in Greece….Destroyed by the Holocaust. Students also watched a documentary based on Rebecca's life that was produced by The Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education of North Carolina, 2017 to 2024.
- Piedmont Electric Bright Ideas Grant Winner: Making Historical Connections by Infusing STEM and Literacy in Social Studies, 2019
- President's Scholarship Recipient, Northcentral University, September 2017
- Graduated from the Orange County Schools Teacher Leadership Program, 2017
- Honorary Board Member for North Carolina Council for Social Studies, 2016 & 2017
- Teacher Presenter for a session for North Carolina Council for Social Studies: Exploration and Enrichment: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences Across the Curricula, 2017
- Teacher Presenter for Orange County Schools for summer professional development, 2017
- 2016 North Carolina Social Studies Teacher of the Year
- Wrote multiple literacy and STEM grants to provide additional cross-curricular experiences to students including Disease, War & Genocide: The Compelling Truth About Our World, Infusing Literacy Through STEM, and Outbreak Alert: Engineering a Pandemic Response Through STEM, 2017 - 2019
- Achieved National Teacher Board Certification in Early Adolescence Social Studies in 2005 and renewed National Board Certification in October, 2014
- Chosen by NC State University to complete Item Writing and Reviewing for the MSL Common Exams Project in 2012 to 2016
- Students have met and/or exceeded state growth on North Carolina Final Exams
- One of three teachers selected from Person County Schools to participate in the Principal's Executive Program through UNC-Chapel Hill. Graduated with 70 credit hours in April 2004 for Administration
- Southern Middle School Teacher of the Year 2006
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Teacher Trainer
North Carolina Teacher Academy
08.2005 - 07.2011
Middle Grades Social Studies Teacher
Orange County Schools (C.W. Stanford Middle/Orange Middle School) and Person County Schools (Southern Middle School)
08.2000 - Current
Doctorate in Curriculum And Teaching
National University
Specialist of Education - Curriculum and Teaching
Northcentral University
Master's in Education - Middle Grades Education with a concentration in Curriculum and Instruction
North Carolina Central University
Bachelor of Science - Social Science Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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