Janisha Artis

Eager to assist other volunteers, mentors, advocates, counselors, educators, and administrators in aiding at-risk youth and young adults in reaching their full potential, transitioning back into the community, LEA Home School, and transitioning to college or workforce through building partnerships with the family and community.

Owner/Operator and Contract Worker - Restored-Roots - Jackson, TN

(2024-12)

Elementary - High school

• Ensure youth understand standards and objectives taught in classroom by effectively unpacking objectives and building targeted instruction to ensure students' success during homework help and tutoring sessions.
• Train and consult teachers on EdPlan, BIP, Progress Monitoring, and Intervention tools to ensure students' success
• Collaborate with S-Team to make sure youth master educational, behavior, and transition goals
• Build students' confidence in mathematics and ELA, and social studies objectives
• Use effective intervention strategies, data, technology, and differentiated instruction to ensure students' growth

Homebound Teacher - Genesis Learning Centers - Tennessee

(2019-01)

Elementary- High School

• Joined forces with the S-Team to ensure continued growth of each student and a successful transition back to LEA Home School
• Helped students become proficient in subject matter through unpacking objectives, relating the objectives to background knowledge, and using differentiated instructions

Director of Education - UHS, Natchez Trace Youth Academy - Tennessee

(2023-03 - 2024-10)

• Ensure the school stays in compliance with IEP and 504 with effective training of special education & regular education teach ers
• Train teachers on MTSS- Intervention and Behavior, Co-Teaching Progress Monitoring and Differentiated Instructions
• Effectively assist special education teachers in understanding reevaluation/eligibility process
• Ensure the school stays in compliance, with Title I, Teacher Licensure and BEP
• Enhanced teachers' performance in the classroom through meaningful feedback, efficient walkthroughs, productive training, and useful modeling
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to ensure students transfer successfully back into the community and their LEA Home School

Assistant Regional Director of Education - Youth Opportunity Investments, LLC - Tennessee

(2021-09 - 2023-03)

• Ensure schools stay in compliance with IEP and 504 with effectice training of special education & regular education teachers, and administrators
• Assess students referred for special education, reevaluation, and IEP
• Train teachers and administrators to ensure they properly understand Child Find, RTI, RTI2, Co- Teaching, Progress Monitoring, and how to use Differentiated instruction
• Effectively use data to increase the rate of improvement, ensure students are receiving the correct intervention for deficit, and collaborate with S-Team
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to ensure students receive the appropriate related services for their disability
• Built partnerships and train with volunteers, surrogates and tutors to ensure students meet their educational and transition goals
• Effectively assist special education teachers in understanding reevaluation/eligibility process, how implement BIP and conduct FBA, understand Compensatory Services

Visitation Monitor - Echelon Services - Tennessee

(2021-02 - 2022-02)

• Ensure safety of youth during visitation of noncustodial parent
• Provide effective communication with Social Worker, Supervisors, and Parents.
• Safely supervise youth before transfer to custodial parent
• Proper documentation of visitation and incidents

Special Education Teacher and 21st Century Tutor - NNPS - Antioch, TN

(2019-07 - 2021-05)

Middle School

• Raised the bare on being an effective case manager through productive time management, being well informed on all students, up-to-date on all caseloads, made joint effort to ensure students' academic, behavior, and transition success
• Boosted students' confidence and revamp the classroom culture through effective use of student-centered lessons
• Improved student's test scores through effective intervention and collaboration.
• Enhanced student's academic ability and behavior through enrichment and tutoring
• Improved 1st year teacher's understanding of IEP, Behavior Plain, and S-Team procedures through mentoring
• Increased parent involvement by 80% through advocating for students and building a partnership with parents

Reading Coordinator, (Summer) - Wayne Reed Childcare Center - Nashville, TN

(2019-05 - 2020-05)

Preschool

• Enhanced the partnership with outsides agencies to increase volunteers by 75% and boost donations.
• Helped improved the curriculum and instructional process through meaningful collaboration with teachers, aids, instructional coach, and volunteers

Transition Coordinator/Principal - TrueCore, Stones River Academy - Nashville, TN

(2016-02 - 2019-05)

Adult Education Residential/Youth Development

• Effectively train teachers and paraprofessionals on special education, intervention, tutoring, PBIS, social emotional learning, and other mental health/education paperwork and procedures
• Implement tools, procedures, trainings, and coaching sessions on special education, intervention, tutoring, PBIS, social emotional learning, and mental health to decrease classroom referrals by 50%
• Built successful partnership with multidisciplinary team to ensure students and young adults mastered clinic, medical, education, and transition goals
• Efficiently used data to construct a productive intervention plan for TIER II, TIER III, and special education students
• Enhanced teachers' performance in the classroom through meaningful feedback, efficient walkthroughs, productive training, and useful modeling
• Showed influential leadership by growing employees into leaders, promoting within, and being a servant leader
• Increased enrollment of students by 64% and increased graduation rate by 75%.
• Ensured the school in compliance, Title I, BEP, Licensure, and Sped
• Successfully prepared all youth and young adult to transition back into community, secondary school, college, and workforce through effective teaching, mentoring and counseling
• Build partnerships with outside agencies to ensure restorative justice, prevent teen pregnancy, and teach independent living skills

Special Education Coordinator - New Vision - Nashville, TN

(2015-07 - 2016-02)

Middle School

• Improved students' reading and math level by one grade level through intervention and effective collaboration with teachers and paraprofessionals
• Effectively implemented a new PBIS system and trained staff and administration on how to use it effectively and tie it into FBA, FBP, and IEP
• Improved the teams understanding of IEP, S-Team, and 504 procedures, and guided them through the process

Special Education Coach/Mental Health Associate - UHS, Oak Plains Academy - Ashland City, TN

(2013-09 - 2015-07)

Elementary-High School Residential/Youth Development

• Enhanced students' literacy skills, and improved TCAP and EOC scores in ELA through tutoring, intervention tools & software
• Successfully used valid and reliable assessment tools to identify youth for special education
• Efficiently guided first year teachers through walk through, quick feedback, and coaching
• Collaborated with DCS, MHA, teachers, therapists, and parents
• Built successful partnership with multidisciplinary team to ensure students and young adults mastered clinic, medical, education, and transition goals
• Effectively train teachers and paraprofessionals on special education, intervention, tutoring, PBIS, social emotional learning, and other mental health/education paperwork and procedures

Online Instructor - Learn It Systems

(2013-01 - 2013-05)

Middle School

• Enhanced students' knowledge of mathematics & language arts objectives through successfully unpacking objectives In Home Tutor - Club Z in Home Tutoring - Nashville, TN

(2011-11 - 2013-02)

Elementary School

• Deepen students' knowledge of mathematics and ELA objectives
• Boosted students' confidence and understanding of objectives, which resulted in an improvement on TCAP and increasing in performance in ELA and math class

Pre-K Lead Teacher - New Life Learning Academy - Madison, TN

(2012-09 - 2013-01)

(12month and 4-5yr)

• Productive teaching methods and strategies to equip students to be kindergarten ready
• Built partnership with families, communities, and teachers, to aid in academic success
• Made Safe and Welcoming Learning Environment

Substitute Teacher - New Vision Academy - Nashville, TN

(2012-01 - 2012-09)

(Grades 5th-8th)

• Effectively unpacked objectives and used differentiated instruction to aid in students students in passing TCAP
• Incorporated useful strategies to assisted students in mastering mathematics goals

GED and Sped Teacher - New Life Academy Residential/ Youth Development - Burns, TN

(2010-09 - 2011-10)

Adult Education & 7th - 12th Residential/Youth Development

• Purposely teamed with outside agencies to make sure youth and young adults had a smooth transition to gainful employment, military, college, and or transition living
• Built successful partnership with multidisciplinary team to ensure students and young adults mastered clinic, medical, education, and transition goals
• Developed students' understanding of GED objectives and aided in 60% passing the test on first try
• Taught students' useful tool to raise students reading level

Home Bound, GED, and Sped Teacher - Hinds County School District - Raymond, MS

(2008-08 - 2010-05)

High School

• Build an alliance with S-Team to support students with their transition back to LEA Home School
• Accurately taught skills and strategies to TIER II and TIER III student to assist them in n mastering intervention goals
• Proficiently taught credit recovery and aided in 85% of my student being promoted to the next grade
• Effectively joined forces with S-Team to help students master portfolio goals.
• students to master portfolio objectives
• Efficiently taught GED students' skills to improve reading level by one to three grade levels to be able to take GED test.
• Successfully supported all my 12th grades students in acquiring high school diploma, GED, and certificate

Teacher Assistant and Tutor - Jackson Public Schools - Jackson, MS

(2007-09 - 2008-05)

Grade K

• Aided TIER III students in getting promoted to next grade

Pre-K Teacher - Mother Goose Christian School - Jackson, MS

(2006-08 - 2007-09)

(12month and 4-5yr)

• Productive teaching methods and strategies to equip students to be kindergarten ready
• Built partnership with families, communities, and teachers, to aid in academic success
• Made Safe and Welcoming Learning Environment

Student Teacher - Hinds County YDC - Jackson, MS

(2003-01 - 2005-05)

Grade Pre-K-12th

• Incorporated useful strategies to assisted students in mastering mathematic and reading goals and improving performance in the classroom

Master's - Multi-disciplinary Human Service - Capella University (2016-12)

Master's - Reading and Literacy - Capella University (2011-09 - 2014-03)

Master's - Early Childhood Administration - Ashford University (2009-09 - 2011-04)

Bachelor's - Disibilty Studies Minor Social Science - Jackson State University (2001-08 - 2005-05)