About

Courageous Creative Cultivator

A native Chicagoan with over 20 years experience in education, with pride I'll tell anyone, "I've always only ever been an educator."

My earliest experience, aside from playing school as an 8 year old, is when during my senior year of high school, I worked with other members of the senior class to design, implement and monitor a tutoring program to help the freshmen. It was our final community-service project.

I loved education then. I love it even more now.

Since then, I have worked in various capacities to meet the needs of students and school educators.

My leadership experience includes

Teacher Team Lead
Department Chairperson
Assistant Principal (traditional suburban high school setting)
Assistant Principal (Urban inner-city neighborhood high school)
Resident Principal (full continuum International Baccalaureate three-campus pre-k through 12th school within Chicago Public Schools)

My skills include:

Oversight of teaching and learning operations
Program Coordination
Strategic Planning & Monitoring
Master Scheduling
Talent Recruitment
Teacher Training* and staff development
Finance Management & Budgeting
Team Building & Diagnosis
Problem Solving
School Community Relations
Communication

* For training topics visit the Cultivator page (under construction)

Highlights of My Experience

School-wide instructional program re-design
Oversight of design and management of STEM Academy
Expansion of Advanced Placement & Dual Credit programming
Developed teacher capacity through sustained job-embedded professional development and mentoring. Improved the success rate of English Learner & Emergent Bilingual students by 33%
Achieved significant school changes in climate, culture, and instruction by as much as 44%

Areas of Expertise

Competence, Aptitude & Leadership

Teacher Collaboration

Professional Development/Training

Student Engagement

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