Fort Worth Independent School District,

R. L. Paschal High School, Fort Worth, TX: Professional School Counselor:  July 2015 – July 2020

Applied Learning Academy, Fort Worth, TX: Professional School Counselor:  July 2020 – Present

Working in the capacity of a professional school counselor within the four components of a comprehensive, developmental school guidance and counseling program (Guidance Curriculum, Responsive Services, Individual Planning, and System Support). Provided individual counseling sessions dealing with a wide variety of issues, such as academic concerns, attendance issues, behavior, relationship concerns, family issues, stress, etc., as well as working with students during individual planning sessions. Provided 504 coordination, and collaborated on RTI, SST and ARD meetings. Presented group guidance curriculum and individual guidance as needed. Provided individual and academic planning during course selection and registration, academic planning for failing grades, EOC and STARR retesting sessions. Provided system support through the creation of a student, teacher and support staff recognition program called Panthers of Promise, created remind accounts for all student cohorts and updated/sent out announcements for each as needed to give students and parents timely information regarding attendance restoration, testing, scholarships, etc. TBRI ® (Trust-based Relational Intervention ®) and CISM® (Critical Incident Stress Management®) trained counselor.

 

Arlington Independent School District,

Arlington High School, Arlington, TX: Professional School Counselor Intern: August 2014 – November 2014

 

Under the supervision of a professional school counselor I worked in the capacity of a school counselor within the four components of a comprehensive, developmental school guidance and counseling program (Guidance Curriculum, Responsive Services, Individual Planning, and System Support). Provided individual counseling sessions dealing with a wide variety of issues, such as academic concerns, behavior, relationship concerns, family issues, stress, etc. Provided consultation during 504, RTI, and ARD meetings. Presented group guidance curriculum for juniors and seniors. Provided individual planning during registration, EOC and STARR retesting sessions. Provided system support through the creation of a crisis, grief and loss box for the campus counseling department, preparing the monthly counseling corner column of the PTA newsletter, maintaining the department presence on Facebook and Twitter(AHS Counseling Department, @counselingcolts), and serving as  an Administrative Coordinator with campus Testing Facilitator for PSAT testing.

 

Arlington Independent School District,

Nichols Junior High, Arlington, TX: Master Reading Teacher: August 2012 – October 2012  and Arlington High School, Arlington, TX: Master Reading Teacher.  Advanced Reading (SAT Prep), Dyslexia, Reading Improvement I, II, III, ESL Reading, TAKS (ELA):  August 1998 – July 2012

       Honors:  Minyard First Class Teacher of the Week 2003-2004

 

Consistently plan and implement lessons covering state-mandated TEKs for Reading, utilize SAT software tutorial program with students in Advanced Reading, teach non-credit TAKS  ELA exit level writing class to TAKs retesters, maintain classroom management and accurate records, utilize creativity and organization while improving standardized test scores, teach multi-cultural materials to a diversified student population while encouraging educational opportunities, responsible for reading department budget, responsible for screening students referred for dyslexia testing, work with identified dyslexic students to address educational performance in their courses, provide explicit, direct, systematic instruction that is meaning-based and multisensory using targeted instruction which include the following components: phonemic awareness, phonics, language structure, fluency, and sight words, as appropriate for each student, follow identified special education students IEPs, work with 504 students, attend ARDs as a general education teacher on committee, assess and evaluate student’s RTIs, work with AISD Special Populations department to plan and provide secondary dyslexia professional development for teachers, perform teacher duties as assigned, maintain communication with students, parents, and faculty and staff.

 

 

Harcourt Brace Education & Trade Group Technical Support Center, Fort Worth

Sales Consultant:  September 1997 - November 1997, Senior Support Analyst:  November 1996 - September 1997, HRW Support Analyst:  August 1995 – Present

 

Provide instructional and technical support for Holt, Rinehart & Winston multimedia/technology products to Consultants, Sales Representatives and HRW Customers and prospective customers (School Districts, Teachers, and Students & Consumers).  Maintain knowledge of product library and support database for use in biweekly reports for use by Operating Unit, Sales and Marketing.  Provide cross-training for other Support Analyst on HRW technology products. Competently support HRW technology products in DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Macintosh and various network environments.  Communicate issues in a timely manner with the HRW Multimedia department, Editors and Sales Representatives.  Create Fax-on-Demand documents, update product/solution database for HRW products on Technical Support Website, and continue on-going product training and computer skills.

 

Dallas Independent School District, T. W. Browne Junior High School, Dallas, TX

Teacher: Reading/Reading Improvement and Journalism, 7th and 8th grades: June 1993 - August 1995

 

Consistently plan and implement lessons covering state-mandated essential elements for Reading, maintain classroom management and accurate records, utilize creativity and organization while improving standardized test scores, teach multi-cultural materials to a diversified student population while encouraging educational opportunities, taught newspaper principles and produced student newspaper, participate in student-faculty extra-curricular events such as career fair, provide computer staff development training to campus staff.