Certifications

Teaching Certification

K-12 Educational Leadership- Building Level

7-12 Mathematics

4-12 Health and Physical Education

PK-12 Teaching English as a Second Language

7-12 Coaching: Basketball, Volleyball, and Soccer

Training

Harvard Graduate School of Education – Leading People Training

Harvard Graduate School of Education – Leading Learning Training

Science of Reading

Structures- Phonics First Dyslexia Program

AVID through Fayetteville Public Schools

RTI with Solution Tree

Aspiring Assistant Principal Cohort through Fayetteville Public Schools

Pre-AP Certified through College Board

CM Mathematics through the University of Arkansas STEM

Committees

Course Proposal Committee – Lead – SSHS

Hiring Committee – Lead – SSHS

Digital/Remote Learning RTI Leadership Team at Lincoln Junior High School

Student Handbook Committee at Lincoln Junior High School

Reading Coalition at Lincoln  Junior High School

ESL department for Bentonville Public Schools

Courtesy Committee at Lincoln Junior High School

RTI Team at Lincoln Junior High

Staff Culture Committee at Fayetteville High School

AVID leader for 9th grade math teachers at Fayetteville High School

District Course Approval at Fayetteville Public Schools

Crisis Planning at Fayetteville High School

RTI-A at Fayetteville High School

Cultural Relevance at Fayetteville Public School- ESL Department

Sustainability Planning at Fayetteville High School

Collaboration PlanIT at Hellstern Middle School

Conferences

“Inspiring Instructional Leader” – Presenter at ACT Summit on growing leadership capacity during a time of high teacher burnout (June 15)

“How to RTI in Secondary” – Presenter at NWA Coop on how to effectively implement RTI time at the secondary level (June 13)

ALA School Empowerment – Leading a team of teachers and instructional coaches to build a guiding coalition at SSHS (postponed until Fall 2022)

“Teaching, Learning, Coaching” Conference Fall 2021

AAEA Summer Conference – “Resilient Leadership: Better Than Ever” Summer 2021

ESL Playbook Co-Writer for Arkansas Department of Education

Grading from the Inside Out – Book club with fellow educators

STRIVE 2020 teacher participant- Summer- bringing STEM related lessons to students

“A New Approach to Homebound Education” Presenter at Innovative Institution June 2020- Postponed until 2021

“Photo Voice: Empowering Students Through Images” Presenter at Innovative Institution June 2020- Postponed until 2021

Educating for Empathy: A Book Study April 2020

ARKTESOL in Hot Springs October 2019

Phonics First/Structures training Fall Semester 2019

Attended AVID training in Dallas Texas June 2019

“Distance Education in the Digital Age” Presenter at Hot Springs Technology Institute June 2019

“Increasing Positive Staff Culture at FHS” Presenter at Fayetteville High School Collaboration Day March 2019

Attended Northwest Arkansas EdCamp at the Farmington Co-Op in February 2019.

Rethinking Grading- Meaningful Assessment for Standards-Based Learning Book Study Spring 2019

“Engaging Strategies for the ESL Math Classroom” Presenter at the ARKTesol Conference in Rogers AR November 12, 2018

Attended the RTI at Work conference by Solution Tree in New Orleans, LA November 7-9 2018

Attended the Northwest Arkansas Math Conference in Fayetteville June 2018

“ESL Strategies for the secondary math classroom” Presenter at Fayetteville Public Schools in June 2018

“Plickers- clickers with paper! A new way to do formative assessments” Presenter at Fayetteville Public Schools September 2017

Arkansas Alternative Education Conference in Hot Springs Summer 2014

Attended a Texas Instrument Training at Fayetteville High school Summer 2013

Organizations

NASSP- member since 2018

AAEA- member since 2018

ASCD- member since 2018

Junior League of NWA since 2018

AEA- member since 2017

FEA- member since 2017

NCTM- member since 2012