Career

Objectives

Collaborate with teachers to develop and integrate the best learning (and e-learning!) practices that will help them assess students’ reading, writing and critical thinking skills efficiently and effectively.

Plan rigorous yet invigorating learning experiences that stretch student learning across the curriculum and grade levels. 

Engage students and teachers in innovative technological approaches to Common Core and district curriculum.

Work Experience

Language Arts Instructor, Aurora Quest K-8, August 2003 - present

• Taught advanced Language Arts instruction to gifted and talented students in 6th - 8th grades

• Incorporated curriculum units from College of William and Mary Center for Gifted Education (Utopia and 1940s: Decade of Change)

• Organized annual NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) program for the middle school since 2005

• Created and organized The Orange Door Hinge Poetry Contest and Poetry Slam, a school-wide event, 2009-present

• Collaborated and helped lead school's Professional Learning Community with 3rd—8th grade Literacy and Social Studies teachers in aligning reading and writing expectations and practices, 2013

• Participated and presented digital badge implementation experiences in APS badge pilot program.

Middle School Swimming and Diving Coach, August 2005-2013

•  Organized and led practices for girls on swimming and diving team
•  Taught safe swimming skills to a variety of levels

High School Diving Coach Aurora Central High School, November 2005—2015

•  Taught safe diving skills to girls participating on team.
•  Chaperoned and helped coordinate fundraising, parent meetings and banquets

Swim Kids Denver, summers 2012-present,

• Organized and taught private swim lessons to children ages 4-11

Language Arts Instructor, Frontier High School, August 2002 - July 2003

• Taught Language Arts to students attending alternative high school program in grades 9-12.

• Performed weekly check-ins with students’ employers

• Organized and taught the yearbook and newspaper classes

• Supervised students on outdoor immersion trips (Snowboarding Club)