teaching

Experience

& Strengths

Experience

Teacher at Oxford High School

Oxford, MS

SREB College Ready Literacy (1yr: 2015 - 2016)

9th Gr English 1 (4yrs: 2011 - 2015)

11th Gr American Lit. (1yr: 2006 - 2007)

Teacher at Stone Mountain High School

DeKalb County, GA

9th Gr Literature (state-tested) (3yrs: 2008 - 2011)

10th Grade World Literature (3yrs: 2005 - 2008)

Journalism/Yearbook Advisor (6yrs: 2005 - 2011)

Druid Hills, Lakeside, and Clarkston HS

DeKalb County, GA

9th - 11th Grade ELA

(Summer School 2007, 2008, and 2009)

Strengths

- rigor and relevance; student choice

- project- and challenge-based learning

- differentiated instruction; scaffolding

- pre-, formative, post-assessment

- close reading and annotation

- standards-based, data-driven instruction

- backward design using Essential Questions,

mini-tasks, high Depth of Knowledge

culminating tasks