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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
July 1, 2006-June 30, 2008. Principal, Halifax (VT) Elementary School, grades K – 8, Windham Southwest Supervisory Union.
July 1,2001-June 30, 2008. Curriculum Coordinator, Windham Southwest Supervisory Union.
- Responsibilities include coordination and alignment of curriculum in a six-town, six-school district, as well as the developing professional development programs
- March 28, 2001-August 3, 2001. Mass Insight Education, Member, site visitation team, purpose of which is to determine replicable characteristics of high performing schools. Authored several reports
February 16, 2001 – June 2005. Consultant for Curriculum and Instruction, Community High School of Vermont, a facility which adjudicated youth under the age of twenty-one must attend to complete their high school educations in accordance with Vermont Department of Education curricular Standards.
July 1, 1999 - January 19, 2001. Principal, Metropolitan Learning Center. Bloomfield, Connecticut. The MLC is a start-up public global studies magnet school, serving six communities, students chosen purely by lottery.
Responsible for:
- Recruiting staff
- Evaluation and supervision of staff
- Recruiting students
- Developing curriculum
- Developing policies and procedure
July 1, 1994 - June 30, 1999. Co-Principal and Director of Professional Development, Brattleboro Union High School. Brattleboro, Vermont.
Specialization in:
- Leadership
- Instructional Supervision and Evaluation
- Professional Development
Program Development Administrative duties include:
- Joint development of budget and curriculum
- Responding to daily and ongoing discipline issues
- Oversight of Special Education, Section 504, Title I Programs
- Administrative responsibility for departments of:
o English
o Social Studies
o Foreign Language
o Fine Arts
o Music
- Liaison with Community Agencies
Special Projects:
- Implementation of Discipline Study Committee and Attendance Policy Committee resulting in implementation of new policies and approaches to these issues
- Development of External Communication Committee
- Initiation of Community Speaking Engagements
- Development and Implementation of Student Evaluation of Teachers
- Development of Feedback/Communication Instruments between Faculty and Administration.
- Development of:
o Student Teacher Program
o New Teacher Program
o Professional Development Committee
o Peer Presentation Series
o Teacher to Teacher Peer Supervision Program
- Development and Implementation of Alternative Learning Programs
o Alternative Program Drop-out Prevention
o Work Sabbatical
o G.E.D. Program
o Job Corps Linkage Agreement
o Tutoring
- Training Faculty and Staff in Crisis De-escalation Techniques
- Work with District Diversity Committee and newly formed Cultural Advisory Group to address issues of acceptance and tolerance in a rapidly changing community
1989 - 1994 English Department Chair, Brattleboro Union High School.
1977 - 1989 English Teacher, Brattleboro Union High School and Middle School.
1975 - 1977 English Teacher, Chapin School, Princeton, New Jersey.
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