EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- U. C. Berkeley Extension, Cal
Urban Partnership Intern Program (CalPIP): Professional Clear
Multiple Subject Credential with CLAD Emphasis, 2003.
- San Francisco State University,
Humanities: Graduate Studies, 1993-1997.
- San Francisco State University,
Philosophy: B.A. magna cum laude, 1992.
- San Francisco State University,
Anthropology: B.A. magna cum laude, 1992.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Eleven years of experience as
kindergarten, 1st grade, and 6th grade classroom teacher in multi-ethnic,
multilingual, urban public schools in Berkeley and Oakland.
- Extensive experience with individual
and small group literacy interventions for struggling readers
and writers grades K through 6.
- Collaboration with resource
specilaists and service providers to develop specialized instruction,
modifications, and adaptations for at-risk and special needs
students at all grade levels.
- Small group creative writing
enrichment for 4th and 5th graders.
- Creative writing enrichment
classes grades 3 through 5.
- Collaborative planning and design
of innovative curriculum and assessment methods.
- Poetry Instructor for Cazadero
Performing Arts Camp's JumpStart Programs for BUSD elementary
and middle school music students.
- Poetry Instructor for adult
poetry workshops, Writing Salon, Berkeley.
- Graduate Student Instructor,
Humanities and Anthropolgy, San Francico State University.
COACHING AND
LEADERSHIP
- Member of Oakland Unified School
District's Effective Teaching Task Force.
- Fully trained Beginning Teacher
Support Coach.
- District grade level induction
support Teacher Leader.
- Coordinator of school site New
Teacher Support Group.
- District Math Teacher Leader
and member of Math Leadership Network.
- Elected delegate to OUSD Teacher
Convention.
- Professional development facilitator
for literacy, lesson design and instructional practices, assessment
planning analysis, math, and creative writing.
- Member or past member of two
site Instructional Leadership Teams, OUSD English Language Arts
Textbook Adoption Committee, BUSD Professional Development Advisory
Council, and the Berkeley Schools Excellence Project's Planning
and Oversight Committee.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT AND AFFILIATIONS
- Trained in innovative, state-of-the-art
curricular and pedagodgical approaches:
- Professional Learning Communities
(PLCs)
- Expeditionary Learning
- Silicon Valley Math Initiative
(SVMI)
- Assessment for Learning
- Si Swun Math Lesson Design
- Guided Language Acquisition
Design (GLAD)
- Values Project Studio Habits
of Mind
- Dynamic Indicators of Basic
Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
- Presenter at academic conferences
of the California Reading Association, the Society for Applied
Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society, and San Francisco
State University Humanities Symposium.
- Guest lecturer in teacher preparation
programs at Patten University and U.C. Extension.
- Member of leading professional
associations:
- International Reading Association
- California Reading Association
- National Council of Teachers
of English
- Teachers & Writers
- Academy of American Poets
- Poets and Writers, Inc.
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