Olivia M. Connelly

Educator.

Assessment & Curriculum Creator.

Instructional Designer.

Lover of Learning.

Anglophile.

Adder of butter and breadcrumbs to broccoli.

As an educator with 15+ years of experience, I strive to craft meaningful pathways to success for all learners. One of the keys to my success is remaining a perpetual student. The second key is making content palatable, accessible, and relatable.

Add some butter and breadcrumbs when kids don't want to try broccoli.
Unconventional? Maybe.
Successful? Definitely.

Educate

I take complex projects and concepts and break them into digestible and delectable morsels for my learners. Through a multi-sensory approach, I create relevant, replicable, and actionable instructions to keep participants motivated and engaged from beginning through completion of a project.

Innovate

Creating lessons, crafting plans, and manifesting problem-solving solutions are exciting and rewarding. Whether working independently or as part of a team, I rely on tried and true instructional design methods and principles to devise innovative solutions and develop novel roadmaps

Create

Developed on a foundation of interdisciplinary content knowledge and skills with a human-centered approach, my assessments, instructional designs, and content help improve outcomes, lead to learner success, and help to achieve positive results for all stakeholders.

Experience

English Educator in NYS Public Schools:

· Developed roadmap and executed high-level English Language Arts (ELA) & Humanities content with complete product management of grade-level curriculum, unit plans, and daily lesson plans, from initial concept and planning through complete design and execution to raise student outcomes for 120 students annually

· Prepared students to successfully complete the New York State (NYS) Regents Exam in English and evaluate NYS English Regents Exams through implementing scaffolding, strategy, and skill-based lessons to improve student progress; consistently achieved an overall mastery of 93 percent of 120 students annually

· Assessed and integrated student data, feedback, and performance to improve content quality, instructional value, and student outcomes

· Analyzed point analysis data, student data, and feedback to inform collaboration across disciplines to design content and curriculum to enhance student writing and engagement

· Cross-functionally collaborated with Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum to engineer large-scale course about virtual setting adaptions for Socratic Seminar, G-Suite, and virtual classroom management to increase user engagement and improve instructional value in asynchronous and synchronous online instruction for 800 students

· Designed and instructed in-service courses about burgeoning educational technologies: interactive whiteboard, online classroom components, and Google and Gmail in the Classroom, & Teaching in the 21^st Century to implement technology in the school to improve instructional value, and student performance, and classroom experience.

· Presented at NYSEC and LILAC Conferences: Teaching in the 21^st Century: Incorporating Online Classrooms into the Classroom.

· Advisor to Student Council; developed, road mapped, and executed a series of fundraisers to raise over ten thousand dollars annually for local families in need; managed and allocated charitable funds; oversaw bi-weekly meetings of schoolwide organizations and coordinated fundraisers for over 50 school organizations to prevent redundancy

English Educator & Mentor @ iTutor:

· Mentored 12 full-time tutors to improve overall best practices, classroom management strategies, and adherence to content standards in accordance with organizational and school standards

· Content Specialist who defined ELA content goals, implemented processes to improve progress toward goals and designed learning experiences and content for training and professional development to integrate writing content and strategies to elevate instructional value and outcomes.

· Worked in small teams to design assessments, programs, and professional development materials to improve and develop institutional knowledge, instructional value, student performance, and classroom experience.

· Monitored content quality through collaborative feedback; integrated feedback of teammates to improve content, tutor experiences, and student performance

· Remotely tutored students needing standardized test prep, credit recovery, and homebound instruction to maintain a seamless continuation of classroom education for ELA grades 6-8, English 9-12. SAT Prep, NYS Common Core English Regents Prep

Curriculum Writer and Content Analyzer:

· Designed scaffolded ELA curriculum (annotations, questions, and quizzes) aligned with the Common Core Standards for fiction and informational texts for grades 6-12 to improve students’ reading comprehension and literacy skills

· Developed content to develop and build reading comprehension skills for grades 3-12 using DOK stems, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and state standards as guidelines.

· Served as a content expert in assessment standards, content, and formatting to provide a coherent product, facilitate revision and edits, and improve product usability
Communicated effectively with managers and editors to adhere to project timelines, goals, and objectives

· Served as a subject matter expert to craft responses to humanities questions to improve student comprehension

· Annotated e-texts to improve student comprehension and accessibility to complex texts

· Wrote summaries, character descriptions, and “at a glance” material for texts for students to develop and deepen their understanding of Humanities content

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