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
