Experience

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: 

2024-Present    Assistant Principal of Curriculum & Instruction, Lisle High School 

2022-2024          Science  Division Chair, York Community High School, Elmhurst, IL.     

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 2016- 2022 Instructional Coach, York Community High School, Elmhurst, IL

• • Developed and facilitated embedded professional development for teachers

  • Created positive and collaborative relationships with teachers and administrators

  • Communicated and demonstrated research-based instructional practices that resulted in increased student learning

  • Reacted to change productively and gathered resources for teachers to become change agents

2005-2022   Science Teacher, York Community High School,  Elmhurst, IL

• • Developed and implemented lesson plans for honors biology, honors chemistry, and chemistry courses

  • Coordinated and collaborated with professional learning communities

  • Served as honors chemistry and chemistry team facilitator

  • Managed the chemical supply room using the Flinn inventory software

  • Developed curriculum for Chemistry, KI Chemistry, and Applied Chemistry

  • Manage a website to support student learning and use new technologies in the classroom including screen-casts, One Note, and GAFE

  • Co-chaired Grading Task Force 

  • Participated in Reading Assessment Committee, Instructional Technology Committee, and Data Team

  • Participated in the interview committee for the STEM Coordinator position 

  • Piloted Chromebooks and a 1:1 environment in KI Chemistry classes during the 2013-2014 school year

  • Volunteered to teach physics as a 6th class for 12 weeks in 2015

2002-2005   Science Teacher, Queen of Peace High School, Burbank, IL

• • Developed and implemented lesson plans for biology, environmental chemistry, chemistry, conceptual physics and anatomy & physiology

  • Served as Department Facilitator for all science department meetings and developed the meeting agendas

  • Facilitated department-wide discussion to implement a new course sequence including the addition of Conceptual Physics

2003-2005 Student Council Co-moderator, Queen of Peace High School, Burbank, IL

• • This included orchestrating and planning for all school events, such as Homecoming, Spirit Week, Spirit Assemblies, Spring Dance, Talent Show, Elections, and various service projects.

2002 Student Teaching, York Community High School,  Elmhurst, IL

• • Sixteen-week experience teaching ninth-grade biology honors and tenth-grade biology.

  • Experience includes lab management, daily and weekly lesson planning, grading, assessment creation, FTP web posting, institute days, and assisting varsity cheerleading coach.

RELATED EXPERIENCES:

Fall 2020- Present         Adjunct Professor, Northeastern Illinois University 

July 2017- Present        Macmillan, Publisher Freelancer/Chemistry Content Specialist 

• Collaborate with Sales Representatives on special projects related to Living by Chemistry

• Facilitate and develop presentations for High School Chemistry Teachers

• Evaluated assessment questions according to Next Generation Science Standards 

• Wrote feedback for multiple-choice answers for the online textbook 

Summer 2003 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, Teacher Research Associate

• Eight-week appointment in the Particle Physics Division/ Experimental Physics Projects group through the TRAC program. 

• Analyzed data from the Booster Accelerator in order to develop an interactive teaching website for BTEV and Quarknet.  

• Developed website pages to teach about magnetism, acceleration, and other basic physics concepts through data analysis from real Booster data. 

• Fostered ongoing communication with other teachers and physicists on data analysis and scientific concepts. 

• Interacted with other science teachers around the world during Quarknet