• Supervisory responsibilities for 40-member academic departments.
• Facilitating district-wide vision of instruction model stressing Historical Thinking Skills and Communicative Model.
• Participating in state-wide Social Studies Standard revision meetings.
• Preparing and maintaining budgetary accounts for instructional materials across five buildings.
• Creating and facilitating district-wide diversity programming.
• Developing 9-12 Humanities Academy in partnership with community college.

Responsibilities include:

• Supervising a 28-member academic department.
• Facilitating in the development of curriculum mapping and articulation of K-12 programs.
• Preparing and maintaining budgetary accounts for instructional materials.
• Developing departmental vision for planning and teaching.
• Assisting district-wide initiatives in adoption of strategic plan.
• Creating professional development opportunities for staff in Differentiation, Formative Assessments, the Understanding by Design curriculum model and Common Core Curricular Standards.
• Developing and utilizing departmental rubrics for writing and authentic assessments.

Responsibilities include:

• Drafted original questions as as Outside-Item Writer for English-Language Learners assessments. 
• Worked directly with Assessment Directors on the ELPA21 (English Learner Proficiency Assessment) and ELPAC (English Learners Proficiency Assessment for California) https://www.elpac.org/ to design benchmark items to gauge student English Language growth.
• Scoring a variety of student and professional certification assessments (SAT, SLLA, STAAR, MPAT, PPAT and GACE).
• Managing a shift of diverse raters in online and onsite settings.

Responsibilities include:

Collaborating with ESL teachers, as the General Education teacher, to provide skills-based instruction to English-Language Learners in Social Studies courses.

Implementing daily lesson plans for:

• World Studies: Honors, Standard
• United States History I: Honors, Standard, ESL
• Choosing to Participate: Service Learning
• Humanities: 9, 10, 12

Facilitating hands-on learning experiences through creation of community outreach programs: “Senior Privilege” program, Mission Democracy, peer tutoring, and various school fundraising events.

Generating original performance-based and standards-based assessments while incorporating principles of differentiated instruction and cooperative learning.

Incorporating positive classroom management strategies in both a regular and inclusion classroom setting.

Creating and organizing school-wide assemblies for special events and recognition programs.

Coaching included: Girls Basketball (Head Coach), Golf (Head Coach), Boys Basketball (Varsity Assistant) Baseball (Varsity Assistant), and Mock Trial (Advisor)

I graduated from Rider University with a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership in 2006. I earned Graduate with Distinction honors for my consistent excellence and 3.95 GPA. Through my course work at Rider, I also earned my New Jersey and Pennsylvania Principal Certificate as well as my Supervisor Certification.

I graduated from The College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts in History/Secondary Education in 1997. During my academic career, I was named to the Dean’s List in multiple semesters and served as a Teacher’s Assistant within the History Department. As a result of my coursework and strong PRAXIS scores, I earned certification as a teacher of Social Studies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.