SUSANN FORREST
Newtown,Pa
Summary
Education professional with deep leadership, development, and administrative skills. . History of improving instruction through engaging materials with a fresh and forward-thinking approach to education. Bringing understanding of traditional and contemporary approaches, instructional strategies and materials offerings.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Professional Service Director
McGraw Hill Inc
08.2008 - Current
- Develop creative and engaging sessions for adult learners
- Create instructional guides to support internal and external partners
- Maintain Adherence to Time= Bound Projects
- Support partners in creating instructional materials and proactively suggest modifications as needed
- Implement Best Practices with Instructional Design and Technology
- Communicate effectively with internal teams such as business managers, implementation coordinators, sales and marketing
- Provide high quality action-based consulting sessions for stakeholders
- Support new hires through on-boarding process as well as in- field certification
- Coordinate and execute plans at all levels of implementation.
Supervisor
Language Arts, Plainfield School District
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Lead development of instructional materials and implementation of curriculum, and assessment at elementary and secondary schools
- Monitored school and district progress and instructional program implementation through school visits, observations and evaluations to increase best practices in classroom
- Conducted extensive data analysis and plans professional development based on data in collaboration with other content areas for fully integrated approach
- Build and follow district budget guidelines
Literacy Coach
Jefferson School/Plainfield School District
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Supported assessment strategies and the interpretation of data, assist in implementing a challenging and rigorous curriculum based on the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, co- created district curriculum
- Conducting grade level team meetings to support instruction, participating in Child Study Team to assess students and providing instructional strategies to support the classroom teacher I was able to guide teachers and administrators in a balanced literacy program
- Implemented best practices through demonstrations, co-teaching and literacy coaching
- Administration budget planning and meeting programming needs were provided to support the school.
Education
Ed.D (c) -
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZM.A - Curriculum and Instruction
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ2006
B.S -
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL1988
Skills
- Adult Learning Principles and Theories
- Learning Modalities/Content Adaptation
- Curriculum Implementation
- Training Program Development
- Live Sessions/ Online Session
- Social Perceptiveness
- Providing Feedback/ Needs Analysis
- Organizational Efficiency
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Team Member Development/Positive Reinforcement Strategies
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Preparing Materials/Project Requirements
- Excellent Written and Verbal Communication
- Project Documentation
- Exceptional Attention to Detail
- Salesforce, PCs & Macs, Windows, MS Office Suite, Zoom, Teams, Concur, Jira
Accomplishments
- MANY PREVIOUS YEARS IN EDUCATION AND TEACHING!1988-2005: PLATO Consultant, Hillsborough County Teacher
Certification
Supervisor Certification- New Jersey Teacher Certification- New Jersey- Standard, Elementary Education TESOL Early Literacy in the Classroom-ELIC Certified Dare To Lead Certification: Brene' Brown
Timeline
Senior Professional Service Director
McGraw Hill Inc
08.2008 - Current
Supervisor
Language Arts, Plainfield School District
01.2006 - 01.2008
Literacy Coach
Jefferson School/Plainfield School District
01.2005 - 01.2006
Ed.D (c) -
University of Phoenix
M.A - Curriculum and Instruction
University of Phoenix
B.S -
University of South Florida
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