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Students of all ages are capable of incredible accomplishments, if they have the support they need. When I'm in a position to provide support, partner with and advocate for others to achieve their goals, grow and make long term progress, I am at my best. This is who I am.
16 years of experience in education
Self confident and value driven with exceptional management, communication, organization, planning, and community building skills
Strong business, district and school leadership experience
Student centered instructional coach that utilizes partnership approach
Highly technically skilled with a sense of design for the end user
Talented and adept in developing and facilitating in-person, blended or online professional development for adult learners
Masters of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Douglas county school district
Digital Content Project Manager - Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment
2019-Present
Castle Rock, CO
I believe in servant leadership. When working in the service of others, I’m driven by my core values of equity, collaboration, authenticity, and productivity.
Leadership - Part of the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment leadership team
Canvas Professional Learning Project Lead - Coordinated and lead the transition and implementation of the Canvas LMS for professional development for 6500+ staff. Helped create the vision and the structures to deliver evidence-based best practices professional learning opportunities for DCSD
DCSD Curricular Resources Manager - Coordinated with IT, managed, and help implement through Clever approximately $4,000,000 worth of digital curricular resources to DCSD staff including iReady, McGraw Hill, Savvas, Discovery Education, Learning A to Z, STEMscopes, Benchmark Universe
DCSD Computer Science Education Coordinator - Wrote, received, and implemented $90,000+ worth of grants for computer science education for coordination of curriculum and PD for DCSD teachers
Educational Technology - Lead, coordinated, designed and facilitated ed tech and e-learning opportunities and vision for DCSD teachers and leaders. Ex, Canvas, Google Tools, Seesaw, Code.org
Novel & Textbook Adoption Process - Managed and maintained process for DCSD board approval. Re-wrote superintendent files to reflect Board policy changes
District Web Resources - Created and maintained district websites for 4000+ teachers to access and use in their practice, which includes PD (Learning Academy), CIPG Teaching and Learning pages, content websites
District PD Classes - Collaboratively partnered and developed PD using backward planning model and facilitated in-person, blended and online professional learning opportunities
Collaboration - Facilitated and lead inter-district department meetings (IT, SPED, Library, GT, ELD, Assessment) to ensure alignment to strategic plan and collective efficacy of DCSD initiatives
Douglas county school district
Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Growth Strategist
2016-2019
Castle Rock, CO
2020 Colorado Academic Standards - Lead, developed, facilitated, and created resources and tools for DCSD schools to implement the 2020 CAS.
Created & maintain CAS in DCSD website
Computer Science Education Coordinator- Wrote, received, and implemented $40,000+ worth of grants for computer science education for coordination of curriculum and PD for DCSD teachers
Educational Technology - Lead, coordinated, designed and facilitated ed tech learning opportunities and vision for DCSD teachers and leaders
Developed 2017 ISTE Standards for Students planning model for DCSD (See Here in Portfolio)
Developed Computer Science Framework for DCSD based on CSTA standards. (See Here in Portfolio)
Coordinated, lead, and facilitated a technology integration cohort of teachers that met 6 times over the school year, after school hours with a focus on purposeful planning (See Here in Portfolio)
Novel & Textbook Adoption Process - Managed and maintained process for DCSD board approval
District Web Resources - Created and maintained district websites for 4000+ teachers to access and use in their practice, which includes PD (Learning Academy), CIPG home page, DCSD Summer Summit
Example, CIPG home page, DCSD Summer Summit
Learning Academy - An on-demand website for professional growth with resources, videos, articles from over 70+ DCSD designed classes. (See Here in Portfolio).
District PD Classes - Collaboratively partnered and developed PD using backward planning model and facilitated in-person, blended and online learning professional learning opportunities for teachers and leaders. Including classes on rigor, 21st century skills, Google Tools and Classroom, instructional strategies, climate and culture, design thinking, change leadership, and video coaching
Example, see here in portfolio
Leadership - Researched and developed and PD facilitated sessions to DCSD leaders on healthy and productive teams, change theory, instructional coaching and video coaching
Feedback - Continuously sought and acted on feedback, to improve professional learning opportunities and district initiatives
Student Centered Coaching - I am a student centered instructional coach that utilizes Jim Knight’s partnership approach using the impact cycle to coach DCSD teachers and leaders
Collaboration with Individual Schools - Collaborated with school administrators, school instructional coaches, and/or building leadership teams to organize and customize regional, feeder, multi school, whole or embedded school professional learning opportunities for teachers
Innovative Ideas - As a Certified ScrumMaster®, I adapted and utilized the Agile approach and Scrum framework for education to help teachers implement design thinking processes in the classroom
I have immense pride and satisfaction that I created top quality and atheistically pleasing content to customers.
Designed and developed business plan based on latest industry standards
Created informative yet concise pitch presentations using clean and corporate design principles
Storyboarded, scripted, directed and edited numerous customer product instructional videos and business promotion videos using a mixture of stock video and live shot clips
Recorded and edited voice overs to top quality, professional and industry standard levels
Built and implemented interactive and modern website to showcase product
Created and built modern, flat, flexible graphics for various mediums, including presentations, web application and website
Disseminated and posted creative and informative social media content
Castle rock middle school, Douglas county school district
7th & 8th grade technology teacher, CRT (school IT manager)
2012-2015
Castle Rock, CO
Everyday I felt inspired to help students and teachers grow and thrive by providing structure, encouragement and support, based on individual needs.
Designed and implemented backward designed unit plans with daily lessons that consistently aligned objectives and assessments with the GVC’s, state and national standards in technology while incorporating the Four Cs
Developed highly engaging lesson plans in graphic design and student journalism that nurtured creativity while providing structure to students
Taught and mentored students to create using the design thinking process for real-world connections and applications
Proud to have fostered a positive learning environment of collaboration and self-discovery
Designed and implemented student broadcasting to CRMS using student volunteers
Assistant coach for CRMS 8th grade tackle football
Supported and mentored CRMS staff as first point of contact for IT related issues
Planned and carried out staff development on implementing 21st Century best practices and tools in the classroom using adult learning theory
Proactively introduced, planned, and supported school and teacher website transition to Google Sites
Prepared and created IT budget proposals for CRMS and Technology department IT purchasing between $50,000-$75,000 per year
Collaborated and taught with DCSD Center for Professional Development on Critical Integration of Google Apps
Developed and presented 21st Century skills workshops for DCSD Job-Alike and DATL sessions
Academy charter school
7th & 8th grade technology teacher
2010–2012
Castle Rock, CO
I showed up everyday ready to make a positive difference in the lives of my students and coworkers.
Created new technology curriculum based on 21st Century skills and outcomes while aligned to NETS standards for students
Integral part of ACS’s role out Google Apps for Education for teachers and students
Gained a deeper understanding of successful and proven strategies for integrating technology in the classroom
Yearbook creator and advisor
Academy charter school
6th, 7th & 8th grade social studies teacher
2006-2010
Castle Rock, CO
Discovered the importance of being a confident, encouraging, positive, and well balanced role model for my students.
Researched and purchased literacy based curriculum to help students critically think and communicate
Practiced and grew in my pedagogical approach everyday
Demonstrated effective questioning techniques in the classroom that engaged student interest and motivation
Strong knowledge of US and world history, and social studies teaching methods
Believes social studies is a conduit to inter-personal growth and understanding of the world around us
Ability to align curriculum and assessments to state social studies content standards
Strong classroom management, communication, organization and planning skills
Learned the importance of differentiation of instruction to meet the needs of every student
Education
Lamar University - Beaumont, TX | Certification: Principal, March 2019
University of Phoenix - Lone Tree, CO | Master of Arts in Education : Curriculum and Instruction, March 2010
Colorado State University- Fort Collins, CO | Bachelor of Arts : History - Social Studies Teaching Concentration, May 2006
Licenses and Endorsements
Other Professional Experience
Castle Rock, CO 2006 - Academy Charter School student teacher.
Aurora, CO 2012 - KidsTek after school instructor for under privileged middle school students.
Littleton, CO 2015- Arapahoe Community College GED English and Social Studies Prep instructor.
Technical Skills
Through self-discovery, inquiry, and a desire to grow, most of my technical skills have been acquired without formal training or assistance.
LMS Systems: Canvas & Canvas Catalog, Moodle
Project Management Software: Monday, Jira, Trello
Google Apps for Education : Drive, Docs, Presentation, Forms, Classroom, Sites, etc.
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Muse, After Effects, Premier Pro
Apple iWork and iLife suite
Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro X
Microsoft Office suite
Various ed tech and productivity tools such as Slack, Pear Deck, Edmodo, Seesaw, Loom, Prezi, Squarespace, WordPress, Infinite Campus, Google Chromebooks, Windows PC and Apple