Cindy Fortier

Experience

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  Registered Home Preschool

  Feb 2001 - Sept 2005

  Owner/Operator Growing Years Preschool/Child Care

  Owner/Operator of Registered Home Preschool. Coordinated and planned my own business. Planned preschool curriculum and arts and crafts activities for children ages two through thirteen. Social/emotional curriculum. Completed "Child Care Business Inititatives" course including cash flows and break even analysis. Designed an extensive parent handbook. Interact and engaged parents on a professional level daily.

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  Rutland City Public Schools

  Aug 2005 - Jun 2009

  Para-Educator

  Worked directly with children with Autism Spectrum disorder in an inclusive model in the classroom using discrete trial learning and augmentative communication techniques.

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  Rutland County Head Start

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2018

  Supervise Teachers; Oversee Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment scoring system; Public Pre-K Oversight; Kindergarten transition; Ongoing monitoring; Child Outcomes Reports; Classroom scheduling; Recruiting/hiring classroom staff; Teaching Strategies GOLD coaching and support; NAEYC re-accreditation; STARS reporting/maintaining; CLASS Reliable Rater observations; Program planning; Teacher professional development; New staff orientation, Leadership team meetings; Lead Teacher meetings; Inservice planning; Policy council and Rutland Community Programs Board Show less Supervise and mentor Site Supervisors and other education staff in the absence of a site supervisor. Interview and hire teaching staff and subsitute teachers. Regularly monitor classrooms using the CLASS tool, Creative Curriculum Physical Environment checklist and conduct Home Visit observations. Monitor classrooms for the purposes of identifying and implementing strategies and techniques to support more effective staff-child interactions and classroom functioning. I act as a coach/mentor to teaching staff to support positive classroom interactions.I assist classroom teachers in developing and implementing child behavioral plans.Develop employee corrective action/discipline plans.Provide mentoring and coaching in order to help staff develop and enhance their supervisory/leadership skills.Develop and monitor teaching staff professional development goals. etc. etc. Show less

  • Education Services Program Manager

    Sept 2014 - Aug 2018

  • Early Education Classroom Coordinator

    Jun 2009 - Aug 2018
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  Vermont Agency of Education

  May 2016 - now

  Panelist

  Responsible for reviewing candidate's portfolios seeking an Early Childhood Education endorsement to be added onto their teaching license or candidates seeking initial licensure. Responsible for ensuring that candidate meets criteria, competencies and common core standards for endorsement or licensure which is done through portfolio review and interview.

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  Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union

  Aug 2018 - now

  Pre-K Teacher/Director

  Pre-K Teacher and Director at Barstow Memorial School and Whiting Primary School. Complete checkpoint assessments on forty children in Teaching Strategies GOLD; Responsible for STARS annual report; STARS compliance; Vermont State Child Care Licensing regulations; Implementation of Happily Ever After curriculum for literacy and Bridges for Mathematics