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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Activities: Volunteer Work
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Zari Rivera Zapata

Summary

Hardworking & responsible with strong organizational skills. Maintaining composure in a busy work environment with many deadlines. Collaborating with other employees. Interacting with students, guardians, & faculty. Focus on repetitive tasks to provide high-quality services. Ready to expand my knowledge & experience while making a positive contribution.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

General School Clerk

Cooper City High School
11.2023 - Current
  • Manage daily entry systems for students, work staff & visitors.
  • Answer calls, forward calls, make calls & receive messages
  • Greeting school visitors
  • Analytical & critical thinking skills.
  • Excellent oral & written skills.
  • Proficient typing skills.
  • Ability to operate a personal & district computer system.

Group Leader

Cidra Manufacturing
10.2021 - 04.2023
  • Supervise the function of the operators.
  • Take necessary measures to meet production goal.
  • Move product with manual pallet jack.
  • Prepare product for daily production.
  • Sort the product in order of sequence & size.
  • Provide the product to the modules: collars, sleeves, pocket.

ESOL Contact

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
08.2019 - 06.2021
  • Identify new ELL (English Learning Language) students.
  • Administer the IPT (Idea Proficiency Test).
  • ESOL Plan, check update data on ELLevation and TERMS.
  • Generate/Update ELL Folders for LY students.
  • Support student achievement through ELL student assessment and placement.
  • Assign the accommodations.
  • Generate ELL Plan and Student Meeting Report.
  • Monitoring the Post Exit LF student to the ESOL Program.

ESP, Bilingual Assistant Teacher

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
11.2017 - 06.2019
  • Assist certified teacher.
  • Providing instruction to individual or small groups of students.
  • Interpret & translate: teachers, administrators, students & parents / guardians.
  • Prepare instructional materials.
  • Perform administrative tasks.
  • Ability to operate office machines.
  • Latinos in Action (LIA), 2017-2019.

Guidance Counselor Internship

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
09.2015 - 01.2016
  • Coordinate services with community offices & agencies.
  • Participate in meetings, group tests, & individual counseling.
  • Crisis management, helping faculty/staffs.
  • Serving as interpret and translator.
  • Academic support interventions.
  • Assistance with student registration & scheduling.
  • Track student records.
  • Identify behavioral problems.
  • Scheduling appointments.
  • Performing other office duties as assigned.
  • Microsoft Office & similar software programs.
  • Working knowledge of office devices & processes.

Education

Master in Education - Specialization in Guidance And Counseling

University of Turabo
Miramar, FL
05.2016

Bachelor of Science - Mayor in Psychology

University of Turabo
Gurabo, P.R.
06.2006

Skills

  • Collaborate with team
  • Establish good relationships
  • Manage stressful situations
  • Appropriate use of referral sources
  • Classroom management
  • Collaboration talent
  • Communication
  • Computer proficiency
  • Leadership experience
  • Listening
  • Microsoft Power Point
  • Multi-task effectively
  • Organizational
  • Presentation
  • Problem-solving
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Typing

Certification

  • Certified: School Counseling (Grades PK-12), FLDOE


Trainings

  • Self-Reporting Rule, 20-21. June 2021
  • The Heritage, Culture of the Indigenous. May 2021
  • Haitian Culture, Celebrating the Flag. May 2021
  • Equity & Diversity 101. May 2021
  • Students with Disabilities: Inclusion and Equity Agenda/Syllabus. April 2021
  • Inclusion: Making it work for SWD. April 2021
  • Women's History in STEM. March 2021
  • Transgender and Non-binary Students Guidelines and Procedures. February 2021
  • Hispanic Heritage Instructure Practices. January 2021
  • Heroes of the Holocaust Section. January 2021
  • ESOL IPT Assessment During Remote Learning September 2020
  • Using TEAMS for Web Conferences – ESPs. August 2020
  • Supporting ELLs in Distance Learning Section August 2020
  • Getting Started w/Canvas – ESPs. August 2020
  • ESOL Contact Refresher Online. August 2020
  • ELL Strategies for Remote Learning. August 2020
  • Culturally Responsiveness 21st. August 2020
  • Courageous Conversations about Race. June 2020
  • ESOL Guidelines to Interpret/Translate. February 2020
  • ESOL Best Practices for Paraprofessionals. February 2020
  • Total Education Resource Management System (TERMS). August 2019
  • Microsoft Excel. July 2019
  • Instruction for WIDA (development tools for students) and Scaffolded (tool for teachers to offer support to students). June 2019
  • ESOL ELLevation and Curriculum. June 2019. August 2019. August 2020
  • Ethics- Confidentiality. April 2019
  • Grief and Loss. April 2019
  • PTSD and Suicide. March 2019
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid USA. National Council for Behavioral Health. March 2019
  • Warning Signs Annual Review. Annual cert. from July 2015 to July 2021
  • Univ Precautions/Infection Control. Annual cert. from July 2015 to July 2021
  • Security and Privacy Awareness. Annual cert. from July 2015 to July 2021

Activities: Volunteer Work

  • Whiddon-Rogers Education Center. Guidance and ESOL (English Speaker Other Language) Department. Fort Lauderdale, FL. August 2016 – June 2017
  • Lawton Chiles Middle School. Guidance Department (Listen to Children Program). Hialeah, FL. February 2015
  • United Way of Puerto Rico, helping fundraising, filling out the documentation of employee donations through the voluntary payroll deduction, and special events. January 1994 – May 1999. Caguas P.R.

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

General School Clerk

Cooper City High School
11.2023 - Current

Group Leader

Cidra Manufacturing
10.2021 - 04.2023

ESOL Contact

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
08.2019 - 06.2021

ESP, Bilingual Assistant Teacher

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
11.2017 - 06.2019

Guidance Counselor Internship

Whiddon-Rogers Education Center
09.2015 - 01.2016

Master in Education - Specialization in Guidance And Counseling

University of Turabo

Bachelor of Science - Mayor in Psychology

University of Turabo
Zari Rivera Zapata