Shavaughn Monson
Chicago,IL
Summary
Seasoned School Director with a proven ability to lead and inspire all stakeholders that possess a vested interest in the mission and vision of the school. Strong team player with significant experience in school administration, turn around school improvement, strategic planning, curriculum development, community relations and rapid teacher and leader development. Skilled at fostering academic excellence while ensuring safe learning environments. Impact made through consistent data analysis of student outcomes and strengthening of relationships between schools and communities. Possessing years of experience leading while developing other senior and mid level leaders. I possess a proven track record working toward educational diversity, equity, and inclusion on multi-faceted products and projects in large organization or network. I aime to have a lasting and positive impact on the performance metrics of organizations and networks so that all stakeholders involved have the ability to experience exemplary educational results within multiple aspects. Ultimately I desire to serve in a profession that creates possibilities, has a positive impact on communities and provides support and constructive guidance that strengthens the people they serve, while acknowledging the many forms of human difference, including aging, disability, race, Indignity, gender and sexuality, and economic status.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
CHICAGO, IL
06.2022 - 06.2024
- The director is responsible for all aspects of management, leadership, academic success and leadership development within the high school.
- The director must possess and enact a clear vision for high quality engaging, rigorous, and relevant programming and academic achievement that works for all scholars in an innovative school environment.
- The director provides oversight and direction for curriculum and instruction, teacher support and coaching, professional development, school culture, assessments, and student support services.
- The director is responsible for defining and driving efforts towards our vision and mission while developing insights and impact data measurement frameworks, and connect historically underserved and marginalized communities to educational opportunities that promote mastery of educational products, skills and concepts that ensure scholars are college ready.
- The director is responsible for building and scaling a equitable community of practice for all employees.
- The director is an active member of the executive and network level leadership teams, which collaborates weekly to set, implement, and monitor the school's strategic direction.
- Facilitates alignment of content and instruction with assessments that measure performance in grades 6-12 ranging from traditional test scores to performance indicators and tasks with related scoring rubrics.
- Collaborates with other content specialists to create an aligned and integrated curriculum with clear, sequential expectations to prepare all students to be college and career ready.
- Supports curriculum specialists and educational leaders professional growth through focused learning in methods for implementing and maintaining the delivery of effective instruction and mastery on assessments across all academic disciplines.
DEAN OF INSTRUCTION OF ELA, WRITING, SOCIAL STUDIES & ESL
LESTER PREP
MEMPHIS, TN
07.2020 - 07.2022
- A member of a collaborative team that ensures all curriculum, instruction and school culture initiatives are student focused and aligned with the school's mission and beliefs, school goals and strategic plans
- Takes a proactive leadership role in promoting the vision and mission of the school to the staff, students, parents, and community.
- Determines and plans the strategic direction of the school based on key performance indicators
- Establishes all academic objectives as they relate to the implementation of the academic products and programs and student mastery.
- Lead and assist the instructional leadership team as well as the educators in ensuring effective instructional delivery in all classes.
- Active member of the executive leadership team while collaborating with peer leaders covering and mastering all academic and instructional product lines to drive equitable product outcomes.
- Oversee the creation and rollout of all curriculum and driven measurement frameworks and reporting to executive leaders and stakeholders.
- Establish and cultivate relationships with peer leaders across networks to advocate and advance academic mastery and educational equity initiatives and impact.
- Assess system wide effectiveness of academic programs by identifying viable performance measures to monitor improvement of student achievement that supports college and career readiness at a district and/or state level.
- Coordinates the selection, implementation, and evaluation of instructional resources and equipment to support the teaching and learning of all core subjects in a 6-12 academic environments.
INSTRUCTIONAL COACH AND ESL COORDINATOR
MEMPHIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
MEMPHIS, TN
06.2017
- Mentored teachers with varying experience level while offering constructive advice about pedagogical approaches.
- Took a proactive leadership role in promoting the vision and mission of the school to the staff, students, parents, and outside community.
- Advised school leadership on educational policies, procedures, curricula revisions and budgeting decisions.
- Coached teachers in effective use of educational technology tools to enhance instruction and student engagement.
- Developed and implemented assessments to measure student understanding of concepts taught in the classroom.
- Supported the integration of new technologies into classrooms by providing strategic professional development for staff members.
- Lead and assist the instructional team in ensuring outstanding instructional quality in all classes.
- Lead and support a team of academic researchers, Product and Program Managers focused on building internal and external community connections.
- Shepherd cross-organization research initiatives that increase the networks understanding of historically underserved and marginalized communities, infusing insights into school improvement strategy and development.
- Guide curriculum and assessment strategies that establish and scale the networks product development competency and understanding of product equity. Develop (and iterate) measurement of learning outcomes and impact.
- Develop academic research engagement data models that build upon reciprocity, mastery, collaboration and establish infrastructure and processes to scale.
- Provides direct leadership and management of the academic mastery program at a network level to include review of curriculum, performance and program standards, and instructional strategies.
- Serves as content expert and/or Contracting Officer Representative (COR) on multiple system-wide contracts which includes developing Statement of Work (SOW) and monitoring contracts to ensure technical services are provided.
Education
Masters of Education - Administration and Supervision K-12
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
NASHVILLE, TN05.2011
Bachelors of Arts - English
Fisk University
Nashville, TN05.2007
Skills
- Familiar with research and design methods such as ethnography, Participatory Action Research, and co-design
- Able to work with several teams and roles in parallel, establishing relationships and alliances across teams and initiatives both inside and outside the company
- Extraordinary communication skills through writing, multimedia, and/or presentation
- Lead empathetically, fostering an inclusive and empowering environment for the team to do innovative and impactful work
- Articulate communicator when delivering strategic presentations
- Effective facilitator across strategic planning in early stages of key projects
- Deep expertise in strategic problem solving positive narration
- Embody a learner and mentor mentality
- Incorporate the perspectives of my own lived experience in my work with a dedication to allowing other people and their experiences to shine through as well
- Supporting a PreK-12 academic program at the school leader and network level
- Provide learning for educators and instructional leaders that directly support the mission and vision of the strategic plan
- Clearly demonstrated success in the application of principles, methods, and techniques of education and familiarity with current developments in PreK-12th grade education and training
Timeline
HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
06.2022 - 06.2024
DEAN OF INSTRUCTION OF ELA, WRITING, SOCIAL STUDIES & ESL
LESTER PREP
07.2020 - 07.2022
INSTRUCTIONAL COACH AND ESL COORDINATOR
MEMPHIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
06.2017
Masters of Education - Administration and Supervision K-12
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelors of Arts - English
Fisk University
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