Resume

Experience
Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School, New York, NY            2009-Present
Executive Director (Opening August 2012)

n  Recruited institutional partner (NYC Outward Bound), all planning team members and entire Board

n  Managed all tasks and personnel related to charter school planning and application from conception of idea through approval of application

n  Managing all school start-up tasks

Leadership Residency, San Diego, CA            August 2010-Present
Intern

n  Full time leadership resident working with leadership team at HTH North County on all school related tasks

n  Full time graduate student at HTH GSE in the School Leadership program

Principal Residency, New York, NY            2009-2010
Intern

n  Semester long internship with the principal at 03M415 in Harlem

n  Completed 450 hours of leadership work in school and receive School Building Leader certification in NY upon testing

Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, New York, NY            2004-2010
English Language Arts Teacher

n  Teach 25-30 classes per week with 25-36 students per class

n  Helped 82% of tenth graders taking the NYS ELA Regents Exam to pass a semester early

n  Created and taught original curriculum units for 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12thgrade courses

n  Chair of the Programming Committee ’06-‘07, created to assist administration in programming

n  Chapter Committee member, responsible for meeting once a month with Principal to consult on matters of school policy and participate in bi-yearly budget meetings with administrators

n  School Leadership Team (SLT) member, responsible for helping to create Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP) for school

n  Newsletter Committee member, help to create and distribute monthly newsletter highlighting school successes and concerns

n  Middle School Curriculum Planning Team, working under grant to develop and implement new curriculum in our middle school

n  Mock Trial Coach, spend 6-8 hours per week preparing twelve students to argue a legal case in a mock trial competition against other schools in the city and state

n  Taught after school SAT course for 10th, 11th, and 12thgraders

n  Created and coached Wadleigh Soccer Club ’04-‘05

n  Class Website, created and maintain personalized class website for all grades taught

Project CRITICAL, New York, NY            2008-2009
Participant

n  Work with Syracuse University to create webquests and PowerPoints aimed at teaching public policy analysis to Gifted and Talented students

Department of Education School Leadership Team for ELA, New York, NY            2008
Member

n  Helped to develop Scope and Sequence for New York City classroom teachers and created curriculum units to be used by current and incoming NYC teachers in high school Language Arts classrooms

American Social History Project (ASHP), New York, NY            2006-2008
Participant

n  Worked at the CUNY Graduate Center with high school English and Social Studies teachers from all five boroughs to develop and implement joint curriculum units

New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF), New York, NY            2004-2006
Fellow

n  Worked for two years as a full time teacher while receiving a subsidized Master’s degree at night

n  Taught 6th, 9th and 12th grade

Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville, NY            2003
Head Counselor STEP Program

n  Supervised 6-8 developmentally disabled teenage and young adult campers, helped to mainstream them into general population camp activities, and developed individualized, off-camp activities to help teach basic living skills

Education
Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, NY            2009-2010
Master of Education - School Leadership

§  Summer Principal’s Academy

§  Recipient: SPA/Teachers College Aspiring Principal’s Scholarship Award

The City College of New York, New York, NY            2004-2006
Master of Arts, Secondary Education – English

§  Master’s Thesis – The Classroom and the Canon (Honors)

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT            1999-2003
Bachelor of Arts, English and Creative Writing

§  Senior Thesis – Aboriginal, an original novella (Honors)

Additional
Education: National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).  Participated in one month long and three month long training courses in Australia and Chile respectively.  Certified in outdoor leadership and elected student leader from amongst 22 students on each course

Travel: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, China, Europe

Athletics: Middlebury College varsity soccer all years