Resume

Professional Profile:

  • Experienced English teacher who uses writing and project-based learning assessment to enhance student learning.

  • Uses the writing process and portfolio assessment in all writing instruction.

  • Directed seven plays and five musicals from 2003 to 2010 at both Luther East High School and Lutheran High School of Indianapolis.

  • Attended the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2006.

  • Attended the Belfer Next Step Conference in Chicago, IL in June 2008.

  • Interested in Holocaust and genocide awareness, rhetoric, writing and the writing process, Shakespeare (and other forms of drama), and the modern novel.

  • Uses interest and education in history to enrich background knowledge and understanding of texts studied in class.

  • Experienced in use of the Internet and educational software.

  • Experienced in using some differentiation strategies in secondary education.

  • Applies multiple-intelligence strategies in instruction.

  • Experience with multiple course management systems, including: Blackboard, Moodle, Google Classroom, and D2L


Education and Certification:

  • Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, graduated May 2013, M.A. English, Rhetoric and Composition.

  • Concordia University, Wisconsin, Summer 2007, 3 graduate credit hours.

  • Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Summer 2007, 4 graduate credit hours.

  • Concordia University, Nebraska, B.S. Ed./English and history concentration, B.A. History, May 2002.

  • Oak Hill Theological Seminary, London, England, Fall 1999.

  • Indiana Professional Practitioner License: No. 1585979, Expires June 7, 2031. Language Arts 7-12.


Experience:

  • Early College English Teacher, August 2021-present, Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School, Indianapolis, IN

  • Content Creator and Freelance Writer, May 2021-present, Shelly Media Arts

  • English Teacher/Instructional Leader, August 2015-January 2021, Concordia Lutheran High School, Tomball, TX

  • English Instructor, August 2020-December 2020, Lone Star College, Tomball, TX

  • Freelance Writer, March 2017-December 2018, THRED (Lutheran Hour Ministries)

  • Reader for AP Language and Composition, June 2015 and June 2017

  • English Teacher, 2011-2015, Concordia Lutheran High School, Fort Wayne, IN

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2010-2012, IPFW, Fort Wayne, IN

  • English Teacher, 2005-2010, Lutheran High School, Indianapolis, IN

  • English Teacher, 2002-2005, Luther East High School, Lansing, IL

  • Substitute taught at public and private schools in Berrien County, MI , Spring 2002

  • Student Teacher, 2001, Denver Lutheran High School, Denver, CO

  • Student Teacher, 2001, Seward High School, Seward, NE

Professional Organizations:

  • National Council for Teachers of English

  • Sigma Tau Delta (English honor society)

Courses Taught:

  • Introduction to Literature

  • American Literature

  • British Literature

  • World Literature

  • Sophomore English

  • Expository Writing

  • Advanced Composition

  • Literary Movements

  • Contemporary Literature

  • Theatre Arts

  • Christian Ethics

  • World Religions

  • W131 Elementary Composition (College)

  • Freshman English

  • AP Language and Composition

  • English 2 Pre-AP

  • AP Literature and Composition

  • Creative Writing

  • Yearbook

  • Dual Credit 1301 and 1302