Yancy Unger

Experience

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  Mitchell Community Schools

  Aug 1999 - Jun 2005

  Teacher
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  Indiana Humanities Council

  Jul 2005 - Oct 2007

  Professional Development Consultant

  *Orchestrated face-to-face and online trainings for the smartDESKTOP web *Collaborated with administrators at various educational entities.*Designed functional requirements for educational portal software.

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  Indiana Department of Education

  Nov 2007 - Aug 2012

  Innovative Learning Advisor

  Provided school district partners with coaching, training, and creating digital resources. Assessed and supervised the implementation of e-learning grants. Coached and influenced bright spot leaders in modernizing curriculum, instruction, assessment, and collaboration in learning.Key Accomplishments:*Designed and delivered online learning and training and support to 2,500 beginning teachers in creating digital portfolios for licensing requirements.*Spearheaded a statewide community of superintendents, curriculum and technology directors, principals, and lead teachers in implementing 21st-century learning spaces.*Evangelized modernizing learning and curriculum by visiting over 450 schools and presenting at conferences and events.*Evoked awareness of digital literacy as a member of the Indiana Adolescent Literacy Planning Committee. Show less

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  Five-Star Technology Solutions

  Aug 2012 - Apr 2017

  Grew sales using consultative approach in educational technology services supporting schools.Recruited people with experience and expertise to join integration/learning team.Negotiated proposals with potential and current partners.Collaborated in educational network including presentations at conferences and member of SXSWedu advisory board. A leader in Indiana from making the shift from textbook curriculums to digital resources providing expertise in leading and managing complex change.

  • Director/K-12 Strategic Advisor

    Mar 2014 - Apr 2017

  • Director of Innovative Learning

    Aug 2012 - Mar 2014
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  Modern Teacher

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Vice President of Network Membership

  Promoting membership and partnerships with schools to engage in a framework and platform managing complex change in modernizing learning. Startup culture. Consultative sales.

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  North Lawrence Community Schools

  Aug 2018 - now

  Supporting and serving the people who care for our students.Created and nurtured a HR vision, mission statement, and core values that align with North Lawrence Community Schools.Improved recruiting and hiring practices for leadership positions.Supervised support staff handbook revisions.Adopted and implemented a project management system to track HR assistance requests, tasks, and projects.Created, collected, and analyzed culture/climate surveys to impact retention.Improved new teacher onboarding. Show less I returned to teaching to be spend more time with my family as our children graduated from high school and to maintain emotional proximity to students and the teaching profession as I finished my M.A. in leadership and learning.Rated as a highly effective educator serving seventh and eighth-grade students in a largely rural district with a 50% social-economic disadvantaged population.Key Accomplishments:*Developed, implemented, and measured an English Language Arts (ELA) spiral curriculum.*Implemented data-driven ELA instruction to 92 students with a result of a 5.5% higher passing rate than the district average. Show less

  • Director of Human Resources

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Teacher

    Aug 2018 - Jul 2023