Tamika Bufford
Coach/Consultant/Teacher
Laveen,US
Summary
Highly motivated professional with several years of entrepreneurial and management experience. Resourceful with strong history of achieving academic, professional, and personal growth in others, using methodologies like relationship building, problem resolution, goal achievement, project management and successful planning. Offering 17+ years of experience with working with children and adults. Coach, consultant and youth mentor with demonstrated abilities to handle issues with tact and remain calm under pressure. Eager to provide both group instruction and personal support in growth and development of life skills, career and business goals. Comfortable working independently as manager, leader and as collaborative team member. Applies business acumen, experience and exercises decisive judgment to meet and exceed organizational goals.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
8
8
Certificate
Work History
Coaching/Mentor
Purpose Filled Foundation LLC
Laveen, AZ
10.2023 - Current
- CEO of Purpose Filled Foundation LLC.
- Purpose Filled Coaching and Consulting offers Life Coaching, mentoring and business consulting.
- provide various services that help clients find purpose, meet goals, develop life skills and establish good business practices.
Special Education Teacher
Washington School District 52
Phoenix, AZ
07.2022 - 07.2024
- Conducted small group and individual classroom activities with students based on differentiated learning needs.
- Developed interesting and interactive learning methods tailored to help students with individual needs.
- Encouraged student empathy of others to build confidence and improve self-image.
- Collaborated with general education teachers and parents to include students in classroom growth and expectations.
- Teamed with general education teachers to plan and implement curriculum, state and district-wide assessments.
- Solved student behavioral issues according to building expectations and codes of conduct.
- Advocated for needs of the students with disabilities.
- Incorporated interactive visual aids and SDI into student lesson plans to support learning modification and accomodations.
- Developed IEP to leverage developmental practices and educational theories to achieve educational objectives.
- Assisted with classroom observations to identify developmental delays and behavioral issues.
- Collaborated with school psychologist to review MET reports and assist in formative testing to retrieve student data.
- Conduct regular IEP meetings with involved parties to discuss student status, team effectiveness, issue resolution, goal development, new data behavior development.
- Supervised a team of classroom aids, Assign projects to team members, developed task stations, assessed strengths to determine key roles to support projects and classroom objectives.
CFO
Kingdom Women Enterprise
Phoenix, AZ
08.2019 - 08.2023
- Managed company-wide budgets, payroll, accounting and other financial operations for a non profit company.
- Created and implemented best practices to standardize internal processes and procedures.
- Analyzed operational processes and implemented continuous improvement initiatives to promote profitability and efficiency.
Parent Aide Supervisor
Maximum Family Care
Phoenix, AZ
08.2016 - 12.2022
- Contracted Parent Aid Supervised foster children visitation encounters with Parents and siblings
- Completed court reports of encounters and behaviors during visitations
- Managed daily schedules of caseloads and clients Transported children to visitations Deescalate and re direct appropriate behaviors between children, siblings and parents.
- Encouraged individuals and family members to develop skills and use strategies for confronting problems constructively.
High School ELA Teacher
Leona Group LLC
Phoenix, AZ
06.2018 - 07.2019
- Taught ELA academic subject area to ninth, tenth,eleventh and twelfth grade high school students
- Mentored and coached eleventh and twelfth grade students in CCR class
- Mentored middle school students transitioning to high school
- Prepared lesson plans and administered testing
- Facilitated and taught ninth , tenth and eleventh grade tutoring. Created online assessments using Edulastic Interactive Online assessment tools with technology-enhanced items like SBAC, AIR and PARCC which gave you a complete, instant view of student learning and growth
- Creating and scaffolding lessons to ensure they are appropriate for students that are above and below the learning curve for multiple subjects
- Organized and facilitated parent-teacher conferences to maximize student learning opportunities, developed forward thinking plans to correct any ongoing issues in the classroom
- Used positive reinforcement methods to redirect behavior
- Facilitated activities that develop students’ physical, emotional and social growth
- Implemented successful classroom management plans for an average of 40-50 high school students per class
Long-Term Substitute Teacher
Washington School District
Phoenix, AZ
08.2017 - 06.2018
- Taught ELA academic subject area to seventh, eighth, middle school, Ell, and special ED students
- Managed and instructed over seventy students per day
- Prepared students for Statewide Achievement Assessments
- Scaffold lessons to ensure they are appropriate for students that are above and below the learning curve for multiple subjects
- Teaching of district specified curriculum, grading assignments, documenting grades in synergy, issued report cards and progress reports through synergy, created lesson plans
Long Term Substitute Teacher
Murphy School District
Phoenix, AZ
09.2013 - 05.2016
- Taught all academic subject areas to middle school and ELL students, attend a variety of professional development workshops centered on learning goals, classroom management, student motivation, and engaging activities
- Prepared students for Statewide Achievement Assessments while also achieving growth in high percentages
- Scaffold lessons to ensure they are appropriate for students that are above and below the learning curve for multiple subjects
- Teaching engage NY curriculum, grading assignments, documenting grades in synergy, issued report cards and progress reports through synergy, created lesson plans
- Worked with an average of 20-40 elementary students per class.
Childcare Owner & Provider
Affordable Home Childcare LLC
Laveen, AZ
04.2007 - 07.2013
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
- Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
- Established foundational processes for business operations.
- Monitored market conditions to set accurate product pricing and take advantage of emerging trends.
- Tracked trends and suggested enhancements to both challenge and refine company's product offerings.
- Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
- Provided childcare services to children ages 0-12 years old.
- Maintained licensing and educational certifications through annual trainings.
- Money management, book keeping, and tax preparation
- Completed daily nutrition logs, reports for government funding.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Phoenix
05.2012
Skills
- Program leadership
- Strategic planning
- New business development
- Team building and leadership
- Strong interpersonal and analytical Skills
- Excellent communication/customer service skills
- Highly Organized and Multi-skilled oriented
- Excellent Problem resolution
- Positive attitude
- Recordkeeping abilities
- Proficient in Google,all Microsoft office products
- Social Skills Development
- Job readiness training
- Head Teacher Support
- Skills Development
- Instructional Strategies
- Literary Writer
- Self Published Co-Author
- Motivational Techniques
- Project-based learning
- Activity Planning
- Discussion Facilitation
- Lesson Plan Implementation
- Results-focused
- Group and individual instruction
- Meeting facilitation
- Strategic Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Work flow planning
- Productivity Improvement
- Project tracking
Certification
- Psychology Subject Matter Teaching Certification
- Certification for long term and substitute teaching.
- Human Services Certificate
- Coaching and Mentoring Certification
- Fingerprint clearance cards, CPR and First Aid certified.
- Foundations in Project Management Certification
- Certified CPR, First Aid & AED Training Instructor
- Special Education Teacher
- Keys To Literacy Endorsement
Accomplishments
Published Co- Author of Born To Win Anthology Book
Websites
Timeline
Coaching/Mentor
Purpose Filled Foundation LLC
10.2023 - Current
Special Education Teacher
Washington School District 52
07.2022 - 07.2024
CFO
Kingdom Women Enterprise
08.2019 - 08.2023
High School ELA Teacher
Leona Group LLC
06.2018 - 07.2019
Long-Term Substitute Teacher
Washington School District
08.2017 - 06.2018
Parent Aide Supervisor
Maximum Family Care
08.2016 - 12.2022
Long Term Substitute Teacher
Murphy School District
09.2013 - 05.2016
Childcare Owner & Provider
Affordable Home Childcare LLC
04.2007 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Phoenix
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