Professional Development

Leadership

& Service

Master Trainer - SREB College Ready Literacy

Southern Regional Education Board

Locations as Assigned

2016 -

Present

- lead multi-day presentations and training sessions for educators

to adopt and teach College Ready Literacy course

(based on - SREB’s Literacy Design Collaborative framework)

- provide expertise on school- and state-level implementation

based on MDE/IHL requirements/standards

Common Core Advanced Institute Facilitator

University of Mississippi National Writing Project

2012

- 2013

- facilitated Saturday workshop series on CCSS for H.S. teachers

- coached teachers, led book studies/discussions, and modeled

lessons/activities to deepen participants’ CCSS teaching skills

CCSS Rollout Trainer for 9-12 ELA (MDE)

Oxford High School

2012

- 2014

1 of 2 OHS teachers selected to train with MDE cohort to

redeliver CCSS training for OHS ELA and Social Studies depts.

2009

- 2011

1 of 7 English teacher leaders who served as planner

and presenter of professional development trainings for

all district ELA teachers (representing 22 high schools

and 20,000+ students)

ELA Master Teacher Cadre Member

DeKalb County School System, GA

2008

- 2015

- led monthly 30- to 60-minute tech sessions for ELA

Dept. on applications and web tools for classroom instruction

- presented “Web Questing with Weebly” at OSD’s Summer

Institute of Technology

- led Comic Life workshops at Georgia Conference of Teachers

of English & Georgia Council of Media Organizations Annual

Conference

Instructional Technology Presenter

Oxford High School & Oxford School District (MS)

Dekalb County School System (GA)

Faculty Council Representative

to the Superintendent — Oxford HS

2013

- 2015

ELA Textbook Selection Committee

Oxford HS

2013

- 2014

Apple 1-to-1 Pilot Teacher / Rep

Oxford HS & Oxford School District

2012

- 2014

District ELA Textbook Selection Committee

Decals County School System

2009

- 2011

Model/Master Teacher

Stone Mountain High School

2009

- 2011

ELA Benchmark Committee

Dekalb County School System

2007

- 2009

Test Administrator for SAT/ACT

Stone Mountain High School

2008

- 2011

Coordinator, Teacher Advisory Program

Stone Mountain High School

2008

- 2010