Christi Farmer

Experience

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  Chicago Public Schools

  Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

  Teacher
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  Dekalb County School System

  Aug 2006 - Sept 2007

  Teacher

  Responsible for planning and teaching grade level appropriate lessons. Developed a comprehensive rewards and consequences plan.

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  Perimeter Direct a Divsion of Perimeter Staffing

  Aug 2006 - Jan 2009

  Direct Hire Recruiting Manager

  • Cold call into competitor companies to source candidates to recruit for fortune 500 hundred companies• Source and identify leads for open positions through various channels including internet job boards, internet data research, resume databases, associations, networking, and more• Develop creative sourcing strategies to build appropriate pipelines to meet hiring goals• Evaluate candidates’ resumes against job requirements and qualifies candidates through detailed interviews and assessing skills and technical abilities as required• Call individuals to explore their experience and develop them into “warm” candidates that our recruiters can interview• Scheduling interviews for qualified candidates with recruiters and Interviews, prepares and debriefs candidates as required• Contacts, interviews, prepare resumes and checks references for interested, qualified candidates• Helps to facilitate the hiring of qualified candidates by working closely with Recruiting colleagues, Account Executives and Delivery Executives and by following Perimeter hiring policies and procedures to meet recruiting objectives• Gathers candidate background information, enters information into the database, and maintains database Show less

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  Casa Luisa

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2013

  Area Coordinator

  • Responsible for recruiting and staffing Metro Atlanta Schools tutorial sites (Atlanta, Fulton, Cobb, and Henry)• Developed partnerships with community business owners• Produced all marketing, customer satisfaction, recruitment tracking material with the use of technology• Presented company achievements to target audience (parents and administrators)• Ensured that sites were developed, staff is interviewed, hired and trained as tutors• Maintain quality of tutors by participating in teach-backs, monitoring evaluations, and executing regular performance reviews.• Oversee all tutor payroll processing and approval. • Work closely with owner to upsell tutoring to existing customer base Show less

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  Dekalb County Schools

  Jan 2011 - Aug 2013

  Title I Academic Coach/Data Administrator

  Support principal in day to day operations of the Title I school including but not limited to; curriculum, mentoring teachers, parent relations, facilitating professional development, staff observations, and scheduling of a school comprised of 1,200 students and 61 staff members. • Lead the roll out plan of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment• Developed and implemented a well-articulated professional learning plan to help teachers and administrative team understand the use of data to improve instruction and increase student achievement for our 80% ELL population with over 40 language represented within our 1200 student population. The plan launched the procedures for vertical and horizontal alignment of the K-5 curriculum o Created first school wide intervention program and incorporated it into the RTI process o Trained teachers to analyze the results of student assessments and to use the analysis to guide and improve their teaching programs o Provided coaching support for grades 1st -5th grade as well as grade level coaches o Complete audit of after school programs and re-wrote the after school curriculum to meet student academic needs o Created Student Learning Plans to enable teachers to track and monitor student progress for all students Show less

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  ADEC Abu Dhabi Education Council

  Aug 2013 - Dec 2015

  ESL Teacher/Grade Level Leader

  • Grade chair for two school years and provided guidance to the entire teaching staff through classroom observations o Created baseline assessments and continuous assessments for Reading and Mathematics o Taught the administrative staff how to use ESIS reports to improve instruction in the school o Support teachers in data analysis to influence their planning for school improvement • Supported principals, as well as teachers, through mentoring best practices in teaching and provided professional development of both English and Arabic staff members • Supported principal through planning, developing, and presenting professional development for English and Arabic teachers in Math, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Guided Reading and Kid Watching o ADEC Facilitator for English Language Learner week of PD for teachers of grades K-12 • Complete planning, teaching, and assessing of 2 KG1 classrooms of 40 English language learners (ELL), and 1st and 2nd grade all male classes o Model classroom for 21st Century learning practices when visited by outside schools, teachers, and administrators Show less

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  Rockdale County Public Schools

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2019

  ExpertiseInstructional coaching on creative instructional strategies, student-centered instruction, while providing quality professional development.

  • Assistant Principal

    Jul 2017 - Jun 2019

  • At-Risk Coordinator/Instructional Coach

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2017

  • Instructional Coach

    Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  • EIP Teacher

    Jan 2016 - May 2016
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  Cuter Than Most

  Jul 2019 - now

  Director of Operations