Tracey Connors
Endicott College
Newburyport,MA
1
Certification
25
years of professional experience
Results-driven professional administrative assistant/educator with a proven track record of overseeing site operations with precision and effectiveness. Skilled in streamlining processes and fostering collaborative environments. Known for reliability and adaptability within dynamic settings. Strong organizational and communication abilities consistently contribute to team success.
Work History
Accessibility Services Assistant
3 Years- Liaising with students/educators/college departments: Communicating with individuals with disabilities, disability services offices, IT teams, professors and other relevant departments to address accessibility needs for students with accessibility services
- Main desk office reception, with a strong attention to detail within a multitasking, fast paced environment, with the ability to identify individual student accessibility issues,
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to provide support and positive empowerment one on one with diverse individual students to provide the accessible services to ensure student success
- Monitoring testing site, provide test clarification and student support/encouragement during testing, as well as access to professor on demand questioning
- Coordinating accommodations: Coordinating/scheduling student centered accessible testing access
- Verifying/scheduling of testing protocols, ie
- Online testing access: Canvas, Processing accommodation documentation to the professors to provide, GLEAN note-taking, extended time on exams, Text-Speech, Speech-Text technology access
- Maintaining confidential accessibility records: Documenting accommodation requests, tracking accessibility updates, and maintaining database compliance records
Education/Career Advisor
5 Months- Advised one on one to incarcerated multi-cultured individuals in need of education and transition planning including services such as Title 1, SEIS as well as ABE student members
- Processing documentation required for Title 1 and SEIS services, collaborate with school districts to provide students a well planned and focused pathway to abstaining high school credentials, as well as secondary studies and digital literacy
- Presented engaging weekly education orientation sessions for qualifying inmates at off site branches of ECSD
- Implemented a coaching - advising program for participating students to maintain a positive direction forward, to ultimately abstaining their high school credentials as well as advanced college level and digital literacy studies
Science/Reading Educator
4 Months- Science and Reading Educator on a 3 person team teaching an inmate population of high school youth within the Revocation program
- All lessons are designed and taught to meet all students' academic curricula needs per Massachusetts standards for high school learning, as well as IEP modification and implementation for learning success
- Implemented classroom management techniques that fostered a positive and inclusive learning environment for all students.
- Established strong relationships with parents through regular communication, fostering a supportive network for student success.
General Science/ELA - Grade 6
1 Year 10 Months- Science educator within a 5 person 6th grade level team
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Teacher-designed and implemented hands-on inquiry based science lessons/investigations that utilized interactive technology, such as Google classroom, Nearpod, Ed Puzzle, Generation Genius
- Implementation of a new district wide initiative- TWIG Science -a 5 E structured inquiry based format
- Live and digitally formatted lessons - utilizing anchor phenomenon initiated lab investigations, technological simulations and hands-on activities, within a 5 E structured inquiry format
- Formative C.E.R and journal reflective writing
General Science LTS - Grade 6
10 Months- Science educator for grade 6 level students, within a hybrid model classroom during the pandemic lockdown, which consisted of teaching synchronous and asynchronous lessons within the classroom.
- Designed and created science lessons based on NGSS curriculum standards
- Designed and implemented hands-on inquiry based science lessons/investigations that utilized interactive technology and LMS, such as Google classroom, Nearpod, Ed Puzzle, Generation Genius
- Utilized investigative simulations such as Phet Simulations and Pearson's Science GIZMOS
- Collaborated closely within a grade level science team, sharing best practice and lesson evolution.
Special Education - General Science - Grade 6
1 Year 1 Month- Special Education - Science educator for grade 6 level students diagnosed with neurodiverse learning needs.
- Designed and created science lessons based on NGSS curriculum standards, that personally addressed my individual students' level of learning, as per their reading and language based needs
- Designed and implemented hands-on lessons, investigations and projects that engaged my students in a multitude of learning styles
- Implemented use of assistive technology as a teaching- learning tool, to enhance creativity and lesson engagement within the science content and expository reading skills
- Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others.
General Science - Grade 8
2 Years- Science educator for grade 8, math support - grade 7
- Design creative, inquiry based, UDL formatted science lessons, to meet all levels of learning needs, which engaged and improved MCAS scores by 20%.
- Lessons designed to meet all accommodations/modifications to meet diverse learnings needs, ie neurodiverse learners, visually/ hearing impaired, ESL
- Volunteer grade 8 team member who implemented RISE intervention program for students struggling with behavior and academic success.
- In conjunction with the district science team, designed and implemented NGSS lessons for the district's new science website.
- Ongoing collaboration with colleagues, parents and administrators to provide a positive learning environment for all students.
Biology Grade 9-12
1 Year 9 Months- Biology educator for 9 grade honors and 10 -11 grade college level students.
- Creates and implements hands-on engaging lessons that introduce and elaborate on the concepts within biology
- Modifies and extends lessons to meet the needs of a highly diverse group of learners within a full inclusion classroom
- Facilitate students to connect to the prior understanding of life science to develop a deeper understanding of the many aspects of biology and its applications in life and science
- Created challenging lessons/labs to meet the needs of honors level biology students, as well as students of college level and special needs.
- Collaborated with colleagues to develop and revise curriculum, enhancing learning experience.
General Science - Grade 7
2 Years 9 Months- Designed/implemented modified/engaging, project based, inquiry investigative science lessons, which met all students' learning style/needs to access the science curriculum and created a collaborative learning forum
- STEM project based lesson -NGSS writing standards, created/designed an expository writing program: claims, evidence and reasons within their scientific reading and writing
- All lessons designed with differentiation to meet learning needs for neurodiverse and ESL students
- Collaborated within a team of professional learning community team of teachers for the implementation of data driven lesson design and instruction.
- 20% increase in proficient MCAS scores within the science team.
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Science Teacher - Grade 7
1 Year 11 Months- Science educator within a multicultural classroom, utilizing inquiry based science labs and hands-on explorations and teacher created UDL based explorations that successfully presented science content to meet all learners needs and improve MCAS scores.
- Small group instruction via inquiry hands on explorations.
- Modifications as needed for special needs and ESL students.
- Planned, prepared, and taught lesson plans, giving students individual support.
- Delivered interactive lessons to help students comprehend complex concepts.
- Participated in professional development workshops to stay updated on current research findings and best practices in science education.
- Incorporated project-based learning into the curriculum, challenging students to apply scientific principles in real-world situations while developing teamwork skills.
Elementary Teacher-Grades 4 -5
9 Years 1 Month- Engaged students to open their minds and become inquisitive and passionate learners.
- Utilized a multi-intelligence visual teaching style, emphasizing project based hands-on techniques
- Science/content studies consisted heavily of inquiry based engineering and problem solving methods
- Integration of research and project based laboratory inquiries - engaging and improving student learning.
- Co-teacher within an inclusive classroom, with a high level of student IEP's and diverse learning needs such as autism, Asperger's syndrome and Fragile X.
- Strong emphasis on writing across the curriculum in both expository and creative styles that emphasize personal student connections
- MCAS prep for long-composition, ELA, math, and science.
Education
Certification in Health/Wellness Coaching
Post Graduate Studies - Secondary Sciences And STEM
M.Ed. - Elementary Education
B.S. - Biology-Veterinary Sciences
Skills
Quick Learner
Effective in Fast-Paced Environments
Proficient in Google Workspace
Strong Detail Orientation
Collaborative Problem Solving and Team Work
Effective Verbal and Written Communication
Collaborative Relationship Building
Accurate Data Entry
Strategic Multi-Task Organization
Administrative Support
Experienced with Microsoft Office Applications
Professional Demeanor
Certification
- Educator Cert., #368837: Elementary Ed 1-6, Biology 9-12, General Science - 5-8
- Secondary English Immersion (SEI) Endorcement
- Nationally Certified Integrate Health and Wellness Coach, NBC-HWC
Extended Education
- Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) - Studies/Endorsement
- UDL- Strategies-curriculum design to meet learner's needs
- Gordon College - Reading specialist graduate studies
- UMass Boston/BSP/Northeastern University- Secondary Science/STEM
Other Professional Experience
- Still-light Healing Center, Founder/Licensed Massage Therapist
- Topsfield Family Chiropractic, Medical Administration/ Reception/ Billing
- Olsen/Lewis Architects, Architectural Designer/Draftsman
- Design Partnership of Cambridge, Administrative Manager- Office Coordinator
Timeline
Education/Career Advisor
Northern Essex C.C./Essex County Sheriff's Department
11.2023 - 04.2024Read More
Accessibility Services Assistant
Endicott College
08.2023 - CurrentRead More
Science/Reading Educator
CES/Department of Youth Services
07.2023 - 11.2023Read More
General Science/ELA - Grade 6
Sanborn Middle School
08.2021 - 06.2023Read More
General Science LTS - Grade 6
Wellesley Middle School
08.2020 - 06.2021Read More
Special Education - General Science - Grade 6
Carroll School
08.2019 - 09.2020Read More
General Science - Grade 8
Nettle Middle School
08.2017 - 08.2019Read More
Biology Grade 9-12
Wilmington High School
09.2015 - 06.2017Read More
General Science - Grade 7
Galvin Middle School
09.2012 - 06.2015Read More
Science Teacher - Grade 7
South Lawrence East Middle School
09.2010 - 08.2012Read More
Elementary Teacher-Grades 4 -5
Pentucket Regional Schools
08.2001 - 09.2010Read More
Lesley University
M.Ed. from Elementary Education
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Guiding Mindful Change Institute
Certification in Health/Wellness Coaching
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Northeastern University
Post Graduate Studies from Secondary Sciences And STEM
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UMass Amherst
B.S. from Biology-Veterinary Sciences
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