SUSAN RIEDY

Detail-oriented individual with exceptional communication and project management skills. Proven ability to handle multiple tasks effectively and efficiently in fast-paced environments. Recognized for taking proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on optimizing processes and supporting team objectives.

• Recognized for six years of outstanding leadership in the Raymore-Peculiar School District in the Spring of 2009.
• Led school awarded national recognition for increased student achievement and positive school culture - Professional Learning Communities model school
• Recognized for the successful opening of Sunset Valley Elementary School in the Fall of 2009.
• Served as President of the Kansas City Women’s Network for Women in School Administration.
• Served as Board Member of the Kansas City Women’s Network for Women in School Administration.
• Successfully wrote and was awarded leadership grants and teaching grants.

• Texas Core Subjects – Grades EC-6
• Texas Core Subjects – Grades 4-8
• Texas Principal – EC-12
• English as a Second Language Supplemental – Grades EC-6

Researched, wrote, and successfully defended dissertation – An Exploratory Study of Teacher Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Professional Learning Community, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2010

• Participated in three years of Professional Learning Communities training through the Kansas City Regional Professional Development Center – Wrote and received a three-year grant that provided in-depth training to our Building Leadership Team along w/ myself as the school administrator
• Instructional Coach Training - Jim Knight Kansas Coaching Project (KCP) at the University of Kansas
• Ruby Payne Diversity Training – Working With Students From Poverty
• Summer Institute for Academic Diversity - Carol Ann Tomlinson’s intensive training for the various elements of Differentiated Instruction
• Standards-Based Assessment Training – Formative assessment and standards-based grading as part of the Professional Development Network
• BIST: Behavior Intervention Support Team – Participated in 200+ hours of professional development and intensive training as both a classroom teacher and building principal to support students with behavioral and mental health issues
• Assessment for Learning w/ Rick Stiggins - Intensive training in the construction, evaluation, and usage of formative and summative assessment
• Pyramid Response to Intervention-Mike Mattos/Solution Tree
• CPI: Non-violent Crisis Intervention training – Safe behavior management techniques with emphasis in de-escalation strategies and safe restraint practices
• McRel (Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning) training - Balanced Leadership training based on the School Leadership that Works research by Robert Marzano, Waters, and McNulty
• Power Walk Through training for the purpose of classroom observations based on the Classroom Instruction that Works research by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock
• Marzano’s Nine Essential Teaching Strategies training based on the Classroom Instruction that Works research by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock
• Kim Sutton Math Teaching Strategies – various workshops through Creative Mathematics
• Lucy Calkins Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop Model – various workshops through Heinemann