Shawn A Barnard

• Supervise, advocate and maintain two way communication for district students enrolled in a four year PreDiploma/IB program.
• Provide instructional support and capacity building for up to 25 faculty members.

• Facilitate college planning through resume development, scholarship essay assistance, coordination of college fairs, and networking with local colleges to cultivate partnerships.
• Develop the annual budget and operate within budgetary parameters to cover training, materials, travel, and professional development for faculty and scholars.
• Plan a variety of celebrations, trips, and events, including the annual IB Alumni Day and IB Awards Banquet.
• Act as a liaison for the district and the International Baccalaureate Organization.
• Facilitate IB information sessions, marketing, and recruitment for various audiences throughout the district.
• Schedule and manage IB external assessments while meeting registration, upload, and shipping deadlines throughout the year.
• Maintain records within IB-related platforms, IBIS, and ManageBac, to support office and scholar needs.
• Create agendas and communication materials for monthly IB faculty meetings, and lead regular professional development workshops.
• Communicate frequently via weekly IB newsletters and monthly IB bulletins for scholars, staff, and families.

• Supervised and maintained two-way communication between junior and senior diploma and certificate scholars in IB Diploma Programme.
• Developed and managed annual budget to cover training, materials, travel, and faculty development.
• Coordinated celebrations, trips, and events, including annual IB cohort trip to NYC.
• Served as liaison between district and International Baccalaureate Organization.
• Facilitated IB information sessions for diverse audiences throughout district.
• Scheduled and managed IB external assessments, ensuring adherence to registration, upload, and shipping deadlines.
• Maintained accurate records on IB-related platforms, IBIS and ManageBac, to support office operations.
• Created agendas and communication materials for monthly IB faculty meetings.

• Created unit and daily lesson plans that centered around the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs), American Council for Teaching a Foreign Language (ACTFL) Standards and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme framework.
• Created a safe and inclusive classroom environment to promote a positive learning experience for youth with diverse backgrounds.
• Collaborated with other subject and grade-level teachers to build educational frameworks for students focusing on vertical articulation and cross curricular strategies and methods.
• Provided unit and quarterly assessments to determine progress with focus on performance based assessments.
• Worked one-on-one with struggling students to design individualized learning plans.

• Integrated technology into classroom settings to engage students and diversify instruction for three separate languages: French, Latin & Spanish.
• Developed an 18-week curriculum to be used countywide for the seventh grade FLEX program with a focus on innovative and introductory, language lessons.
• Evaluated the current homebound instruction documents (procedures, expectations, time logs, etc) and developed new, more explanatory documents to highlight the expectations and procedures for homebound instruction throughout the division.

• Created unit and daily lesson plans that centered around the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) and the American Council for Teaching a Foreign Language (ACTFL) Standards.
• Created a safe and inclusive classroom environment to promote a positive learning experience for youth with diverse backgrounds, including within a rural setting.

• Created a safe and inclusive classroom environment to promote a positive learning experience for youth with diverse backgrounds, including exceptional students and those affected by being members of a military family.
• Collaborated with other subject and grade-level teachers, specifically those involved in the VBCPS' Spanish Immersion program, to build educational frameworks for students focusing on vertical articulation and cross curricular strategies and methods.
• Worked one-on-one with struggling students to design individualized lesson plans and provide supplementary material and experiences to increase progress in conjunction with daily before-school tutoring.