Growth Timeline

Aspirations for Upcoming School Years

With greatest care, I continue to strive to make connections with my students to understand and activate their learning.  I will continue to work to create a safe space for all student learners and meet their foundational needs.  I look forward to continuing to integrate mindfulness and self-care tactics into the class.

By continuing care for myself as well as continuing education credits, I hope to achieve a great sense of foundational teaching.  I will be able to best achieve these aspirations by continuously collaborating with my fellow colleagues as well as surrounding myself with professionals whom deeply care for our student body.

2023-2024 School Year

Social Emotional Learning Committee, Advisor Leader

• • Planned, communicated, and implemented 2023-2024 school-wide program

  • Lead and organized committee

  • Selected lessons that best served our students

  • Deduced curriculum into effective communication to lead colleagues through lessons and help them deliver effectively

  •  Collaborated with student support specialist sending caring and effective messages to the student body

  • Assessed and gained feedback from colleagues on lesson effectiveness

Leadership for Diverse Schools, Class of 2024

• Participated in a two-day retreat to evaluate our current prospective and lens.

• Engaged in monthly conferences to broaden lens and perspectives.  Every month the group learned about different diverse student populations through discourse, panels, and discussions.

• Integrated a multitude of projects into our classroom and school to increase representation and belonging amoung our diverse population of students and staff.

English Language Development Instructor, Subject Specialist Co-teacher

• • Collaborated with English Language Development Specialist and Learning Support Specialist to deliver approachable science content to seven English Language Learning Students in four different languages.

  • Foster engagement and belonging with multi-cultural learning opportunities while meeting Earth Science learning standards.

  • Communicated with students through the use of translation technologies and worked one-on-one with students as necessary.

Student Performance Measure - Increased Family Communication

• • Developed, integrated, and achieved distinguished student performance measures through an action plan to increase family communication in the second marking period.  Email blasts were sent to families notifying them of current studies in the classroom as well as upcoming assessments.  Resources were also attached to the email blast to help parents engage in preparing students for assessments.

  • Achievement was measured through mastery on an assessment in marking period two or 6% growth on a local assessment measure.  95% of the fall semester population of students were able to demonstrate mastery or growth on local assessments through the extended support of family communication.

2022-2023 School Year

Professional Development Instructor

• • Certified Trainer for ClearTouch Panels

  • Served as advisor and on site support for ClearTouch Panel roll out in renovated classrooms

Social Emotional Learning Committee, Advisor Leader

• • Planned, communicated, and implemented 2022-2023 school-wide program

  • Selected lessons that best severed our students

  • Deduced curriculum into effective communication to lead colleagues through lessons and help them deliver effectively

  •  Collaborated with student support specialist sending caring and effective messages to the student body

  • Assessed and gained feedback from colleagues on lesson effectiveness

Student Performance Measure - Positive Behavior Implementation

• • Collaborated with Student Support Specialist to develop a means of gathering and aggregating ideas for classroom rules based on students needs, responses, and expectations

  • Utilized student preferred language from classroom rules to address behavior

  • Utilized TRACKS program to recognize and communicate positive student behavior and actions

  • Resulting was a positive classroom culture, assessing and meeting/managing student needs, supporting student needs beyond the classroom and a reduction of unwanted behaviors.

2021-2022 School Year

Social Emotional Learning Committee

• • Brainstormed best practices for implementing social emotional learning into school day

  • Trialed social emotional learning program with homeroom students

Student Performance Measure - Developing Skills

• • Adjusting curriculum and means of delivering content to best meet the learning needs of students in the minerals section

  • Developed a list of simple study skills to model with students

  • Adapted materials and committed class time, daily, to reinforcing study skills

  • Measured student growth the pre and post assessment

2020-2021 School Year

Bobcats Cyber Academy

• • Developed Virtual Learning Guide

  • Planned and executed online curriculum

  • Differentiated classroom instruction for blended learning class that had both in-house and virtual learners.

Trauma Informed Care Committee

• • Research positive-behavior support for students, evaluated schools current ability and climate, contribute foundation feedback for pioneering program

  • Within classroom, focused on developing mentoring relationships, mindfulness, and self-care strategies for students.

2019-2020 School Year

200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Certified Yoga Instructor

• • Completed rigorous training outside of continuing education standards

  • Personally established positive care routines

  • Placed mindfulness practices in the classroom

  • Developed and recorded meditation for the district employees and high school students to utilize on the first day of at-home instruction

  • Continued virtual meditation and yoga sessions during at-home learning

Adapting Content and Curriculum

• • Adjusting curriculum and means of delivering content to best meet the learning needs of students in the introductory unit

  • Developed a lesson on scientific method that integrated breathing techniques and assessing own pulse rate

  • Developed brain break cards to be utilized in class

Professional Development Instructor

• • Presented to district on implementation tactics and importance of a trauma informed classroom

  • Instructed high school colleagues on Wellness Wednesdays for both mediation and yoga classes after school 

Trauma Informed Care Committee

• • Research positive-behavior support for students, evaluated schools current ability and climate, contribute foundation feedback for pioneering program

  • Within classroom, focused on developing mentoring relationships, mindfulness, and self-care strategies for students

2018-2019 School Year

Trauma Informed Care Committee

• • Research positive-behavior support for students, evaluated schools current ability and climate, contribute foundation feedback for pioneering program

  • Within classroom, focused on developing mentoring relationships, mindfulness, and self-care strategies for students.

Adapting Content and Curriculum

• • Adjusting curriculum and means of delivering content to best meet the learning needs of students for the Lithosphere and Atmosphere Unit

Astronomy Field Trip

• • Planned and completed a successful trip to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum with 50 students who had enrolled in the Astronomy course

Professional Development Instructor

• • Presented to district on implementation of design thinking into current curriculum and classroom

  • Developed instruction and presented a crash course in innovation and creativity in your classroom to colleagues

Keystone Technology Innovators (KTI) STAR

• • Nominated by principal