Trista D Stamness

• Apprentice staff on high leverage strategies and efficient routines.
• Developed business plan for bank executives.
• Directed all phases of start up: confirmed lease, project managed contractors and remodeled building, sought a state department of health license, marketed and hired staff.
• Manage student enrollment campaigns.
• Collaborate with MN legislature and other public agencies to bring policy suggestions for small business support.
• Designed STEM lessons and staff development for teachers.
• Supported and supervised team of 7 professionals.
• Aligned organizational objectives with STEM mission, increasing revenue, profit and business growth by collaboratively developing integrated strategies.
• Shaped nimble solutions during shelter in place mandate for COVID response by implementing instant online LIVE Zoom classes to be offered twice a day and offered school age approaches by leveraging trends in customer needs to schooling during hybrid options.

• Partnered with administrators and teachers to build response systems for students in need of extra help in math and reading.
  
• Collaborated with principals to plan year long staff development focus for all teachers around best practices for vocabulary instruction in content area classrooms to support reading, writing and thinking skills for college and career ready students.
• Coached, modeled, and mentored all teachers on best practices around the CLASS tool to support their teacher evaluation.
• Facilitated 60+ staff with professional development using whole group, small group, and 1 on 1 job embedded staff development through group discussions, modeling, and book studies.
• Facilitated Reading Response to Intervention Design Team in writing quarterly and weekly teacher frameworks to provide a scope of standards and skills/strategies to focus on while providing daily productive practice for every student to assure all students have timely responses and opportunities to achieve at high levels.
• Developed staff members' attitudes, skills, and knowledge through various professional development targeted topics.

• Expect reading results and strategy responses across all grade levels using American Reading Company's language arts solutions so all students have educational excellence opportunities.
• Implement American Reading Company's Transformational Leadership System for Success to District leaders, principals, and teachers.
• Facilitate high leverage systems and strategies for adult and children.
• Collaborate and build leadership partnerships with district office administrators, principals, literacy coaches across the nation.
• Provide professional development for the Independent Reading Level Formative Assessment.
• Model instructional steps, strategies, and protocols and help prioritize high leverage strategies and priorities to build excellence within.
• Develop reading experts among teachers and leaders.
• Conduct workshops using gradual release of responsibility model for whole group, small group and 1 on1 common core instruction.
• Facilitate Data Wall/PLC meetings to celebrate and make timely responsive action plans to achieve high student reading growth.
• Model authentic reader/writer workshop in classrooms using common core standards.
• Plan, implement, monitor, and assess Instructional Framework system in schools across USA.
• Introduced and refined best practices with current leadership systems to support their educational teams to enhance student outcomes through much personalization and customization per school and state standards.
• National PD Partnerships in PreK-12th include: MN, IL, CO, WY, NY, OH, MA, FL, TX, MO, IA, SC, WI, GA, NE

RESULTS

-2013 Spring Results: Improved 4-6 grade level MCA scores by 16%.

-2017 Spring Results: 95% school wide with 10% gain from another school project.

-Partnered with 3 schools who have become Minnesota Reward Schools.

• Led Pre-K to 12 grade teams in vertical instructional alignment to build scope and sequence for all Science and Social Studies standards.
• Aligned departments and increased inter-department communication.
• Designed systems and documents for K-12 teachers to house science and social standards focus themes.
• Facilitated building effective common assessments to foster instructional reflection and responses to increase student growth on each standard.

• Facilitated curriculum writing and new teacher training.
• Prepared spreadsheets, report card handbooks, and curriculum planning guides.
• Modeled reading strategy instruction in all district wide classrooms.
• Partnered successfully with 3 team members and K-5 grade level teacher curriculum writing teams to produce curriculum scopes and staff development for Rochester Public School Districts teachers.
• Staff developer for various group sizes including 1 on 1, small and large groups of 100+ staff.

• Reward School for top 15% Title school in MN.
• Coached teachers on small group strategy/guided reading instruction, running records, effective close reading, independent active reading strategies, and integrated balanced literacy workshop.
• Created strategic schedule to maximize special area teachers’ and paraprofessionals’ support.
• Modeled 100 Book Challenge conferring with IRLA, common core standards, and student/teacher dialog for whole and small group, or 1 on 1 conference.
• Implemented IXL math building wide from success with pilot group.
• Expedited vertical teaming of Total Instructional Alignment of Minnesota K-5 Education Reading standards for school wide expectations.

• Analyzed lag data from MCA tests and lead data from benchmark assessments.
• Coordinated letters for Title I programming, staffing, bussing, ASA calendar, family nights, staff meetings and staff development.
  

• Coordinated/monitored fall Stanford and spring MCA testing.
• Communicated expectations, vision, assembly agendas, school patrol schedules, parent letters, student council events.
• Coached site leadership through spending options for $70,000+.
• Mediated communications between teachers and para-professionals.
• Collaborated with interpreters for strong parent partnership.
• Presented 4 Site Plans to District 535 Board of Education.
• Facilitated Professional Learning Communities for 30+ staff.
• $10,000 grant recipient for 10 staff members to attend Dufour’s Professional Learning Institute in Lincolnshire, IL.
• Facilitated continuous improvement with SMART goal model.
• Collaborated with district Gifted and Talented Director to test qualified 2nd grade students in SAGES test to screen giftedness for pilot cluster placement in 3rd grade.
• Created class lists from Stanford scores to support 3 Stanine groups focused on teaching to gifted students and dependent readers.
• Recipient dual building grant with Bamber Valley Elementary for $6,000 of Advanced Training.
• Implemented reading and writing workshops to increase student literacy and support school reading.