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Shannon Plein

Shannon Plein

New York,NY

Summary

Motivated and caring early childhood educator with more than six years of experience, creating a student-centered, differentiated, and safe learning community for students with diverse backgrounds. Easily cultivates trusting and productive relationships with students, parents, teachers and administration. Creates, monitors and sustains disciplined school culture of high academic and behavioral standards for students.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

General Education Teacher

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
Bronx, NY
09.2017 - Current
  • Taught second grade (2017-2018) and third grade (2018-2019) as the general education teacher in an Integrated Co-Teaching classroom and first grade in an English Language Learner classroom (2019-2023). Currently serve as the general educator in a first grade PATH classroom, that integrates children who have experienced severe trauma into an ICT classroom setting.
  • Plan, adapt, differentiate, and implement lessons in accordance with FUNdations, Heggerty, Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Program, HMH Into Reading and Writing, GO Math, and enVision Math 2.0.
  • Track individual student progress through the use of Fountas and Pinnell running records, Acadience Learning, and various topic assessments. As well as frequent informal running records, phonological/phonemic awareness assessments (CORE phonics survey), conferencing and small group check-ins.
  • Utilize research behind the Science of Reading to plan targeted phonics instruction for small group.
  • Cultivate executive functioning skills through co-regulating strategies and incorporating social and emotional learning principles, emphasizing empathy, self-awareness, and emotional regulation.
  • Collaborate with special education teacher and service providers to create a supportive environment that addresses the various needs of students and increases academic achievement.
  • Increased math proficiency from less than 6% to 90% in the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school year.

PBIS Team Leader

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
Bronx, NY
09.2021 - Current
  • Coordinate over 30 school-community events (family bingo, family paint night, math game night, etc.).
  • Organize school-wide fundraisers.
  • Plan and facilitate staff PBIS workshops, trainings and check-ins.
  • Pioneered school-wide Class DOJO use to track positive behaviors, increase school and home communication, and building positive parent-teacher relationships.

First Grade Team Leader

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
Bronx, NY
09.2021 - Current
  • Plan and facilitate ELA team meetings in which we analyze data, unpack upcoming units, and plan small group instruction.
  • Collaborate with administration to ensure coherence across first grade classrooms.
  • Delegated daily tasks to team members to optimize group productivity.

Reading Intervention Teacher

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
Bronx, NY
01.2023 - Current
  • Tutor and provide assistance before school to students in need of additional reading help.
  • Interpret assessment data to determine best intervention methods for students.

Math Instructional Leadership Team

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
Bronx, NY
09.2023 - Current
  • Identify a problem of practice based on a deep dive of math data and root cause analysis.
  • Create a goal and identify a research-based improvement strategy and a Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle.
  • Evaluate Impact to scale up or revise improvement strategy.

Education

Master of Education - Education, School And Counseling Psychology

University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education

University of Delaware
Newark, DE
05.2017

Skills

  • Relationship Building
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Reflective Practice
  • Lesson Planning and Curriculum Modification
  • Experience with Diverse Student Populations
  • Knowledge of Child Development
  • Collaborative and Team-Oriented
  • Flexible and Adaptive

Certification

  • Early Childhood Education (Birth-Grade 2), Professional Certificate, 2023
  • Therapeutic Crisis Intervention in Schools (TCIS), 2024
  • Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS), 2024
  • Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator Certificate, 2023

Timeline

Math Instructional Leadership Team

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
09.2023 - Current

Reading Intervention Teacher

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
01.2023 - Current

PBIS Team Leader

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
09.2021 - Current

First Grade Team Leader

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
09.2021 - Current

General Education Teacher

P.S. 42 Claremont Community School
09.2017 - Current

Master of Education - Education, School And Counseling Psychology

University of Missouri

Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education

University of Delaware

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