Andy Milliken

Passionate education professional with a deep desire to create a positive school environment through dedication to the students and the community. An animated instructor who takes deep consideration of all feedback, creatively implementing that feedback to improve classroom outcomes. Leverages social-emotional learning and its implementation in the classroom, school, and district to ensure students academic and social success.

8th Grade English Teacher at Uintah School District (2022-08 – 2025-08)

• Collaborated in an At-Risk Task Force, identifying 20 students within Uintah School District with undesired outcomes and providing resources to improve learning outcomes for the group by 32%
• Nomination for District Teacher of the Year
• Teach 6 diverse classes of 150 students/year, building relationships with parents and communicating regularly to inquire about positive reinforcement, differentiation, and students' classroom needs
• Build lesson plans that follow state standards, teaching a guaranteed and viable curriculum with fidelity to institutional specifications by generating learning goals and success criteria that align with colleagues
• Participate in a PLC, implementing feedback from administration, instructional coaches, and colleagues, utilizing feedback to ameliorate classroom outcomes by increase of 42% throughout the 2024-25 school year

Substitute Teacher at Uintah School District (2022-01 – 2022-05)

• Adapted quickly to the classroom setting, implementing feedback from experienced instructors to follow safety and comfort guidelines ensuring safety of students and creating a positive learning environment
• Promoted to a long-term substitution job in February for an 8th-grade science class while working towards a degree and certification to become a full-time instructor
• Learned on the fly in a disruptive class, advocating for the students with administration to garner educational support, keeping a calm and collected head in the face of adversity

Reporter at Uintah Basin Media (2019-07 – 2021-07)

• Research, write, and plan news stories, following APA guidelines that painted all parties within the story in an objective manner, presenting professionalism and commitment to the job's impact on a local level
• Interacted with local people garnering quick and genuine connection to the population, garnering all of the information available to write a complete picture of events
• Establishing contact with professionals to be able to follow the development of stories and events present in the community, maintaining positive, productive relationships with individuals involved

Shift Lead at The Valley Steakhouse

Student Teaching at Utah State University (2025-01 – 2025-05)

Barista at Starbucks

B.S in English Secondary Education – Utah State University (2025-05)

Associates in Science – Utah Valley University (2020-04)