Vanessa Usrey

• Provide students with targeted reading interventions, 4 days a week, that include personalized strategies to enhance foundational reading skills, comprehension, and overall literacy.
• Collaborated with grade level (3rd & 5th) reading teachers to develop individualized reading plans tailored to each student''s needs.
• Monitored student progress through regular assessments such as iReady, MAP, and MRF to adjust intervention strategies as needed for optimal results.
• Enhanced student engagement with diverse literature selections, promoting a love for reading and learning.

• Enhanced campus engagement by organizing and promoting after-school tutoring program.
• Streamlined campus coordinator duties and responsibilities to improve the efficiency of our tutoring program.
• Collected, reviewed, and uploaded weekly tutoring compliance documentation.
• Met and/or exceeded campus monthly targeting goals for tutoring hours in Math and Reading.

• Coached teachers to improve practices through professional development and modeling instructional strategies.
• Met diverse student population needs by planning and implementing lessons with wide variety of teaching strategies.
• Maintained confidentiality while recording and keeping detailed track of student performances.
• Provided direction and coordination to learners and provided ongoing feedback to learners.
• Reviewed formative and summative data and information from diagnostic tests to accurately assess students.

• Provide in-depth campus training and support for MAP Growth, MAP Fluency, TX-KEA, and CIRCLE testing.
• Support STAAR and TELPAS training and testing.
• Created campus wide testing schedules.
• Conducted make-up testing.

• Confirmed accurate completion of grade change forms and gradebook corrections.
• Conducted new teacher(s) and staff professional development training over gradebook policy.

• Completed required field trip forms for campus events.
• Planned and oversaw implementation of all extracurricular activities.
• Documented and tracked all extracurricular activities.
• UIL Coordinator for Fall and Spring events.

• 2015 - 2016 (Gifted and Talented teacher at Ebby Halliday and Kleberg Elementary)
• 2016 - 2018 ( Gifted and Talented teacher and intervention support at Kleberg Elementary)
• Worked with other teachers and administrators to evaluate and revise elementary school programs.
• Mentored new reading teachers by modeling best practices.
• Conducted instructional reading and writing professional developments.
• Implemented reading and writing small groups to increase student literacy and support school reading programs.
• Fostered team collaboration between students through group projects.
• Created lesson plans and scheduled each day to promote maximum student learning and enrichment.

· 2013 - 2014 (5th grade Science and Math)

· 2014 - 2015 (5th grade Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies, as well as Team Lead)

· Implemented reading workshops to increase student literacy and support school reading programs.

· Developed and taught lessons on relevant children's books, poems, movies and themes to promote student interest.