Frank Kimitch

Experience

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  Central Oahu Youth Services Association (COYSA)

  May 2003 - May 2016

  Residential Counselor

  Counseled boys ages 12-17 living in group foster home. Instructed clients in community living skills. Promoted healthy recreational activities. Supported positive social skills development and group skills building. Ensured safe interactions between clients. Monitored behaviors of clients, and reinforced positive and negative behaviors. Budgeted recreational expenses. Completed intake and discharge of clients transitioning into and out of facility in custody of Department of Human Services or Family Court. Show less

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  Hawaii State Department of Education

  Jul 2003 - Oct 2017

  Educator

  Special Education Teacher and Inclusion Co-TeacherResponsible for teaching all types of special needs students in elementary, middle and high school. Organized curriculum and instruction, administering formative and summative assessments, collecting data and reporting progress, coordinating Individual Education Program meetings and eligibility, complying with all state and federal laws in the education of students with exceptional needs. Experience includes teaching in fully self contained classroom, resource classroom, and inclusion classroom with a co-teacher.Primarily taught history, sociology, and psychology in high school; math and English in middle school; and all subjects in elementary school.General Education TeacherExperienced teaching a wide-range of ages from various socioeconomic backgrounds. Responsible for meeting individual academic, social, emotional, and special needs of learners in elementary, middle, and high school. Met the educational expectations of families from upper middle-class suburban communities, low-income rural communities, and military communities. Worked under several leadership teams and situations, including schools in restructuring and schools that met adequate yearly progressRobotics Program CoordinatorInitiated Robotics program at elementary school for high-level, gifted and talented, and special needs students funded by federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) grant.Summer School DirectorHired and organized staff for summer school program of 130 students, enrolled all students and compiled classes based on age groups and other factors, scheduled daily program for students in first through sixth grade to rotate through classes Show less

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  Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2014

  Education Consultant

  Education Consultant: Conducted item analyses for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) assessments of Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

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  Leeward Community College

  Jan 2014 - May 2016

  Lecturer

  Lectured Collaboration and Teaming Lab, ED298L, and Foundations of Education, ED 290, in the Associate of Arts in Teaching program at Leeward Community College. Developed curriculum and instruction for potential special education teachers and entry-level teachers. Focus included creating stimulating learning environments, collaboration and co-teaching, social emotional and academic learning, professional development, learning community case study, standards-based lesson plan, and educational philosophy Show less

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  American Institutes for Research

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2017

  Educational Consultant

  Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) Science Grade 4 Item Review CommitteeHawaii State Assessment (HSA) Science Grade 8 Item Review CommitteeCommittees reviewed newly written items for inclusion as embedded field test items on the HSA. Each item reviewed by a committee composed of Hawaii teachers for its freedom from bias, match to the Hawaii standards and benchmarks, its appropriateness for the grade level, the accuracy of its content, and language clarity or ease of understanding the intent of the question Show less

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  Waialua Robotics

  Jan 2017 - Sept 2017

  Waialua Junior Robotics Club Coordinator

  Created robotics program for elementary school students. Secured funding and equipment for program. Recruited students and maintained records of progress in programming, building, testing, teamwork and other work involved in process of learning robotics skills

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  Kamehameha Schools

  Apr 2019 - Jul 2022

  Middle school robotics teacher for 7th and 8th grade indigenous STEM: Introduction to 3D Design and Printing with TinkerCAD, Onshape, Revit, PRUSA and FlashForge printersIntroduction to Computer Programming with Altino self-driving cars, arduino/arduino IDE, ScratchBeginning Robotics with VEX IQAdvanced Robotics with FIRST Tech ChallengeInnovation Lab with KMS Learning CenterArtificial Intelligence (AI) with Oceanit Aloha AICubesats (satellites) with University of Hawaii, Hawaii Space Flight Lab Project POKE Show less

  • Hawaii Science and Engineering Fair School Science Fair Coordinator

    Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Hawaii Association of Independent Schools District Science Fair Judge

    Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Kamehameha Kula Waena (Middle School) Leadership Team

    Jan 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Concurrent Online Distance Learning/Hybrid In-Person Teacher

    Mar 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Community Partnership with Oceanit

    Mar 2018 - Jul 2022

  • Middle School Robotics Technology Teacher

    Oct 2017 - Jul 2022

  • Kealaʻula Institute

    Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Yearbook Teacher/Advisor

    Aug 2019 - Jun 2020

  • Kilohana Mathematics and Hawaiian Culture Based Education

    Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
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  Hawaii Technology Academy

  Jul 2022 - now

  Teacher