Dayspring Brock

As an experienced educator and curriculum professional with 20+ years of teaching experience, curriculum development, student mentoring, and project management across K–12, college, and online education, I bring to the table excellence in literacy and content analysis, as well as expertise in curating the best ideas to develop excellence in programming and assessments.

Teacher at BISHOP O’CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL (2024 – 2026)

• Taught 11th grade English III Honors using an American literature curriculum
• AP Language and Composition (student scores in 97th percentile)

Clinical Extern at INSTITUTE FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (2023 – 2023)

• Served clients under supervision as part of the clinical psychology program with DMU.
• Utilized interview skills, prognosis, note documentation, and preliminary training in the clinic.

Teacher at ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL (2020 – 2022)

• 6th-11th English Composition & Literature
• 9th-11th Ancient History, Literature, and Rhetoric & Debate

Teacher at MOUNT SAINT MICHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL (2015 – 2020)

• Taught 7th & 8th grade students an English and History program using a classical curriculum
• Planned and taught in Retreats and Church Sacrament programs
• Mentored a virtue-based program with small group circles in a homeroom setting
• Started the middle school Declamation program, including recitation and contests

Director of Curriculum at TOBET (2017 – 2019)

• Helped with writing & editing The Body Matters, a Pre-K- 8th grade religious program
• Created content for Educator Guides to accompany the lesson books
• Aligned standards with the objectives/standards with Lincoln, Nebraska & Victoria, Texas
• Managed project timeline for curriculum

Teacher at NOLAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL (2011 – 2015)

• Planned, taught, and assessed 9th,10th, and 11th grade English courses
• Co-led Book-Club for students in various grade levels

Teacher at HOMESCHOOL CONNECTIONS ONLINE (2010 – 2015)

• Created, planned, and taught online courses to middle school and high school homeschoolers including:
• Mark Twain: Friends, Fiends, and Freedom in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
• The Heroic in Arthurian Literature,
• Traitors, Traditions, and True Patriots: French and American Revolutions, and
• British Literature and the Question of Evil.

Teacher at PEGASUS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES (2010 – 2011)

• Reading Teacher, 4th, 5th, 6th grade
• Collaborated with teachers and admin reading data for improvement in STAAR testing
• Instructed testing strategies and TEKS practice with Benchmarks

Adjunct at RICHLAND COLLEGE (2006 – 2010)

• Taught two sections of Comp 101, 102 using literary anthology and composition
• Developed a supplemental reading program to develop remedial thinking, speaking, and persuasion skills, modeling a variety of rhetorical devices

Adjunct at BROOKHAVEN COLLEGE (1999 – 2000)

• Taught English as a Second Language in the World Languages Division, introducing cultural and language idioms for help in speech and English acquistion.

Research Intern at WOODROW WILSON CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS (1996 – 1996)

• Worked on projects, assisting fellows in writing and research at the Library of Congress

Teachers’ Assistant at DALLAS INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURE (2003 – 2004)

• Assisted Director in admin support as liaison to the Institute
• Updated records for attendants of courses and the Summer Institute

Teacher at REDEEMER CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (2004 – 2005)

• Humanities 11& 12th Grades

Bachelor of Arts in History with Minors in Philosophy & English – DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (1998)

Masters in Humanities in Literature – UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS (2004)

33 hours toward PsyD – DIVINE MERCY UNIVERSTIY (2022 – 2023)