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Administrative Portfolio

Artifacts Organized by Competency

Welcome to my administrative portfolio, a unique webpage here for you to explore. The experiences and opportunities I've gained throughout this time have added such value to my life, both personally and professionally.  I am eager to share my passions and projects with you. Read on, and enjoy.

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Leadership

  • Virtual Learning (Special Education) PLC Team Lead

  • Served as the learning Supports Team Chair

  • Member of School Improvement Planning Team

  • Served as the ATPPS coordinator, planned and led the fall 2021 professional development day.

  • Professional Growth

    • Culturally Responsive Training

    • Intercultural Development Inventory

    • 16 Personalities Test

    • Onward Book Study

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Organizational Management

  • Master Schedule Creation

  • Took part in spring staffing meetings

    • Helped principal with allocation of staff​/sections

    • Participated in staffing presentations for teams

    • Attended 1:1 meetings for dismissal of staff members due to budgetary cuts/reduction of hours

  • Summer School Coordinator:  Organized summer staff training and oversaw the startup of the summer program

  • Planned the procedure for end of year VLA Materials Pickup Day

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Policy and Law

  • Policy & Law Class:  Current Legal Issue Paper

  • Assisted with disciplinary procedures for staff & students

  • Attended Washington County Washington County Training for School Resource Officers & Administrators

  • Conducted MCA Regulations Training

  • Took part in covid logistics planning with school leadership team

  • Learned about the district bullying policy

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Political Influence & Governance

  • Participated in the Cottage Grove Elementary Levy for Learning team, to promote awareness and communicate information for the fall election.

  • Utilized democratic decision making framework to help guide schoolwide PD and other building decisions

  • Attended and presented information at school board meetings â€‹

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Communication

  • Created various types of email correspondence, newsletter components, and held meetings with teachers to support topics around curriculum, assessment, and instruction. 

  • Created videos for students and families to support many of the transitions that came with distance learning.

  • Conducted many phone calls with families and local community members related to student support.

  • Conducted professional development and training in a variety of modalities:

    • Face-to-face meetings

    • Virtual Meetings

    • Screen Recorded (flipped PD)

    • Podcast creation

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Community Relations

  • Organized a Bike Safety Program for our summer school program.

  • Served as a literacy tutor for our Native American Connections program and attended cultural events with the the group.

  • Connected with many local businesses to help plan and support the spring 2021 teacher appreciation activities for CGES staff. 

  • Partnered with district leadership, students, and families to create teacher appreciation videos for virtual teaching staff.

  • Attended PTO Meetings and schoolwide events (Culver's Nights, Breakfast and Books, Virtual Learning Nights, Homecoming, Athletic Events)

  • During distance learning, planned a schoolwide virtual author visit with children's author, Kao Kalia Yang.

    • Additionally, helped plan an illustrator visit with Billy Thao for our kindergarten class.​

  • Assisted teachers with utilizing zoom/google meet tools in order to host a virtual open house night

School Supply

Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment

  • Authored the district's 2nd grade math scope and sequence document, designed to accommodate multiple formats of learning (hybrid, virtual, and in person learners)

  • Schoolwide Assessment Lead - coordinated training, scheduling, and administration of the following tests: 

    • MAP, MCA, HOPE Scale (GT)​

  • Created and shared various instructional coaching projects to inspire teachers to apply best practice and implement new instructional strategies

    • Coaching Menus​

    • Finish Strong Staff Challenge

    • Classroom Coaching Opportunities

  • Provided support around collecting, organizing and interpreting assessment data

    • Data Review for ATPPS Day

    • Creation of data room

    • Personalized data spreadsheets for teachers

  • Led multiple Equity PD sessions for our instructional staff (based on Zaretta Hammond's Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain)

Freelance

Human Resource Management

  • Conducted evaluations for continuing contract and probationary staff members.  Also conducted informal observations of classroom teaching staff.

    • Physical Education Teacher

    • Continuing Contract

    • Peer Observation​s & Classroom Walkthroughs

  • Interview Experience

    • Participated on school's interview committee for several positions

      • Elementary Specialist

      • Elementary Literacy Interventionist

      • High School Intervention & Political Science Teacher

      • High School SpanishScreener

  • Administered and scored the HumanX Ventures candidate screener, prior to hiring potential candidate

  • Assisted principal with conducting  reference checks, prior to hiring a candidate
  • Attended ongoing meetings with HR staff, assistant superintendent and principal regarding spring staffing timeline and allocation of FTE for next school year.

    • Determining Sections

    • Releasing Staff (budget cuts)​

  • Received district training on new online evaluation tool (Frontline Professional Development Software) and the updated substitute teacher system: Teachers-On-Call (the new substitute system)

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Ethics

  • Utilized various types of Staff & Student Feedback to help make democratic decisions

    • Feedback from PD​

    • Staff/Student input for fall planning

  • ​Attended Parent Meetings surrounding various student concerns:​

    • Disciplinary/Bullying​

    • Course Acceleration

  • Through the ethics course at SMUMN, created an ethics presentation that modeled a decision making framework based on the work of Rushworth Kidder

  • Assisted with conducting investigations regarding sexual harassment and incidents of racism at the high school level

  • Presented multiple trainings and book studies on culturally responsive teaching practices in order to foster a more inclusive school environment four our underserved student population

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Judgement & Problem Analysis

  • Formulated a system to collect teacher feedback around scope/sequence work

  • School Improvement Team/Leadership Team Work

    • SIP Goal Identification

    • Progress Monitoring of specific student populations

    • Identifying staff needs and creating a school-wide PD Focus

    • Data analysis

  • Assisted with formulating and implementing guided reading expectations for staff

    • Used a framework for decision making​ to identify barriers to instructional goals

      • Concept Mapping

      • Classroom Walkthroughs

    • Planned supportive/responsive PD based on staff need

  • Participated in multiple role-playing scenarios during the SMUMN student management course

  • Collaborated with classroom teachers to support diverse learning needs through instructional coaching and modeling of skills and strategies

  • Worked with families, students, and staff to plan proactive responses to various issues that arose in summer school:

    • Classroom schedules​

    • Staff conflicts

    • Transportation

    • Student Behavioral Needs

    • Illness/Injury

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Safety & Security

  • Helped facilitate lockdown drills at M.E.S.

  • Responded to real emergency scenarios during summer school

    • Hazardous outdoor conditions

    • Playground Injuries 

  • Summer School

    • Established Arrival/Dismissal Procedures

    • Managed the approved parent pickup list for carpool students

    • Trained staff up updated covid safety protocols 

  • System Leaders Meeting

    • Received training on the situation report manual & required reporting process​ for various school emergencies

    • Receiving training on updated lockdown procedures

  • Created a Mandatory Reporter Training within coursework at SMUMN.

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Instructional Leadership

  • Organized many types of professional development for teaching staff (virtual and face-to-face) focused on literacy, math, and culturally responsive teaching

  • Developed PLC agendas and regularly attended grade level PLC meetings.  Also served as PLC lead for the virtual learning academy special education teachers.

  • Trained and practiced implementing Jim Knight's Impact Cycle instructional coaching framework

  • Provided teachers with instructional feedback during classroom observations

  • Spent time co-teaching and modeling literacy lessons for teachers who requested specific support during a coaching cycle

  • Furthered my own learning through book studies centered on coaching and pursued certifications in the area of instructional technology

Modern Learning

Monitoring Student Learning

  • Led our school through a data review and goal setting process as the ATPPS coordinator.

  • Coached several new teachers in using the Benchmark Assessment System for reading

    • Administration​

    • Scoring

    • Analyzing Running Records

  • Served as a member of the CGES School-wide Intervention Support Team

    • Created student referral form​ to help track student information

  • Supported many teams in viewing and analyzing multiple literacy data points

    • Created a literacy data wall for K-5 teams within our PLC meeting space​

  • Provided specific training and support on the Dreambox Math platform, allowing teams to more effectively monitor student progress in mathematics standards

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 PreK-12 Leadership

  • Collaborated on resources to support Standards Based Instruction

  • Participated in the Literacy CCRT team for the district

  • Had opportunities to attend out-of-district PD events to strengthen professional learning network and learn more about schools outside my district

    • ISTE 2021

    • Metro Instructional Coaching Summer (Spring 2021)

  • Collaborated with MS and HS instructional coaches to create an end-of-year staff challenge that reinforced district-wide PD concepts throughout the year (The "Finish Strong Challenge")

  • Participated in transition planning teams:

    • Course accelleration

    • 5th grade Middle School Transition Planning​

    • 9th grade HS orientation days

  • Learned more about gifted/talented education by participating in training and implementation of the H.O.P.E. scale

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