Experience

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  Bellingham child development center

  Sept 2010 - Feb 2015

  Co-teacher

  Planned and executed small-group lessons, led sensory experiences, and assessed student work in math, writing, and language in ECEAP standards. Monitored children on the playground, in the swimming pool, during field trips within the community, etc. STARS registered.

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  Mount vernon school district

  Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  Full time student teacher

  Taught in a title-1 school with large ELL/ multilingual population of students. Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) trained. Raised levels of student engagement and academic language usage. Created a classroom culture where academic participation was the “norm”.

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  Wade king recreation center

  Jun 2014 - Apr 2015

  Shares flow-style teachings with a varied demographic of students. Incorporates anatomical and energetic information in order to prevent injury and maximize feeling while providing space for mental and physical transformation. Provides a safe, energizing workout while fostering a sense of community and coaching students to reach their individual health goals.

  • Registered Yoga Teacher

    Jan 2012 - Apr 2015

  • Certified Spin Instructor

    Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
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  Ferndale school district no. 502

  Sept 2015 - Aug 2018

  Teacher

  Piloted district SEL curricula, classroom “peaceful places”, tier-2 behavior interventions, and trauma-informed teaching practices; served on school PBIS team and district-wide math curriculum teams; created grade level practices of student led conferences, data binder usage, and a "no homework" policy; fund-raised to provide alternative seating for every student in the classroom.

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  Bellingham public schools

  Sept 2018 - Aug 2019

  Teacher

  Integrated school-wide Positive Discipline practices, Mandarin language, and International Baccalaureate framework. Concluded weekly whole-school assembly “community gatherings” with self-regulation strategies. Served on social-emotional team responsible for gathering data, making the school’s supervision decisions, and tracking student needs throughout the school year within a new system.

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  Seattle public schools

  Sept 2019 - Aug 2023

  Looping teacher

  Served as Building Leadership Team co-chair, overseeing facilitation and development of the Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP), staff professional development, and the school budget. Served as Racial Equity Team PD lead, raising staff participation in SPS’s Racial Equity Action Plan, creating and assessing developmentally-appropriate activities to determine community progress on the Social Justice standards, and perpetuating practice of valuing educational justice, specifically in conjunction with academic and social emotional outcomes, access to school resources, and student agency. Served on Shared Leadership Team, cultivating trusting and positive community relationships, developing a unified vision for the school's future, and collecting leadership groups’ commitments to racial equity work for the coming year with community-developed indicators of success for said goals. Show less

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  Northshore school district

  Jul 2023 - Jun 2024

  Employs feedback systems to support student conduct and well-being in collaboration with building administration, staffulty, and families. Implements Social-Emotional Learning and tier-1, -2, and -3 interventions. Provides timely communication to families, and information, coaching, or professional development to building staff. Identifies and proposes solutions for data trends in student needs. Building experience in six core competencies: shaping culture and leading change, building instructional capacity, marshaling resources and improving systems, advocating with students, families, and communities, and committing to ethical practice.

  • Dean of Students

    Oct 2023 - Jun 2024

  • 1500 Hour Principal Intern

    Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
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  Seattle public schools

  Aug 2024 - now

  Assistant principal

  Drove comprehensive high school into safety compliance: creating and implementing a safety drill calendar and protocols, developing expectations and instruction around student/ staff/ admin/ security expectations, developing and facilitating safety team with monthly meetings, developing and posting evacuation maps through the classrooms/offices, organizing emergency supplies, building partnerships with district safety and security, community organizations for emergency preparedness; Built instructional capacity in certificated and classified staff: conducting regular eValuations and walk throughs in instructional spaces, giving feedback and taking data on classroom walk throughs, conducting pre and post observation meetings, holding staff to high levels of professionality, guiding staff towards culturally relevant instructional practices, overseeing Distinct and Focus programming; Developed staff capacity: new staff orientation and monthly follow up meetings, PD during staff meetings; Athletics: partnering with Athletic Director to support culture and sports as a continuation of the learning environment, supporting coaches to manage students and families, supervision of KingCo and Metro events, developing schedules, overseeing budgets Show less