Special Programs:

• Improve special education, 504, and RtI/MTSS programs through multiple campus-wide structural changes.

• Implement cultural change in special education and science departments

• Assisted SDI teachers with at-home learning tools and weekly summaries

Professional Learning and Student Learning:

• Present staff training and faculty meetings, including 2019 inservice agenda

• Developed learning website for DMS staff (https://tinyurl.com/qvqby6h)

• Design PLCs centered on multiple areas including topics impacting collective teacher efficacy and student learning and experience (e.g., implementing best practices for learning targets and formative assessments)

• Implemented campus-wide lesson plan template focused on 4 PLC key questions

• Developed student planner for at-home learning

• Completed LEAD evaluations for science, electives, and special ed

Discipline and Safety:

• Address multiple grades of discipline, focusing on restorative practices

• Developed staggered release plan to improve hallway safety

• Developed new discipline plan in 2019 with Student Learning and Experience Committee

Other Operational Duties:

• Coordinate books and busses

• Coordinate volunteers and community outreach through Voly

• Lead and participate in committees like BLT, attendance, and more

• Participate in parent evenings like Coffee Talks and Pizza with Parents

• Developed communication with digital sources such as a family newsletter, orientation newsletter, and pictorial announcements on TVs throughout school

• Spearheaded full revision of Campus Improvement Plan in Spring 2018

• Perform lunch and extra-curricular duties as assigned

District Level Commitments:

• Restorative Practice Committee (built website for all district admin)

• Back to School Fair (lead organizer for Volunteers and general procedures)

• District Task Force for planning 20-21 school year

Student Learning

• Impact collective teacher efficacy and improve student learning using data-based practices, with staff and student reflection tools

• Developed Staff Learning Website for Durham Staff

• Redesigned district-wide curriculum to be utilized by all 7th graders at LLELA www.tinyurl.com/G7FE18

• Helped students develop academic and emotional intelligence through interdisciplinary curriculum at multiple campuses and integrating SEL

• Build relationships with students (and staff), leading to better learning outcomes

• Developed curriculum for multiple subjects and grades at the high school and middle school level, including environmental and aquatic sciences

• Voted Teacher of the Month and nominated twice as Teacher of the Year in 2003 and 2017 (McKamy and Marcus)

Student Experience

• Developed 2 different middle school discipline guides that were implemented campus-wide (McKamy and Durham)

• Led teacher committee to develop SEL program for 2017-18 Marauder Time with a focus on connecting students and teachers through hands-on activities

• Build collaborative culture with staff using data-focused protocols and evaluations to build consensus and change practices

  • Growth Mindset book study for MHS staff,

  • differentiation staff training

  • best practices and data collection

  • many instructionally based PLCs as an administrator and a facilitator.

• Facilitated and attended many professional learning sessions with staff to improve collective teacher efficacy

  • Level 1 and 2 Coaching and Critical Friends workshops

  • AVID leadership training

  • Solution Tree PLC 4-day conference Summer 2019

  • Solution Tree RtI at Work 3 day conference Fall 2019

Community Involvement

• Coordinated 300+ volunteers for LISD Back to School Fair for 3 years, serving over 4,000 underprivileged students in a 1-day event

• Co-presented at TASSP principals conference and a women’s conference at Baylor University

• Spearheaded rewrite of the DMS Campus Improvement Plan in 2019

• Worked with multiple committees over many years to offer meaningful ways of engaging parents and other stakeholders and enhancing student experience:

  • Marcus HS TEDX

  • MHS Parent Education Programs

  • Building Leadership Teams

  • MHS Healthy Families night

  • MHS Growth Mindset parent night

  • Coffee Talks and Pizza with Parents

  • Black History Community Night

  • Hispanic Heritage Community Night

Resource Stewardship

• Attended AVID leadership training and school-culture driven No Excuses trainings

• Completed Critical Friends (coaching) and Level 1 and 2 Coaching

• Mentored a student teacher and first year teachers

• Continue my own development through trainings dedicated to improving my skills:

  • a 3-day Schlechty Center workshop on Engaging the “Net” Generation, and

  • a UNT Tyler Teacher Quality Grant (2012-2014) with 200+ hours of training in project-based learning.

  • Deloitte Courageous Principals Conference 2019

  • Crucial Conversations

  • LISD Leadership Cohort 1 and 2