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Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months
STRING THEORY HIGH SCHOOL | PHILADELPHIA,
English Teacher Grades 6-12
Differentiated instruction for College Prep and Honors courses based on a vast range of
cultural, academic, linguistic, and emotional needs for classes with up to 28 students.
• Enhanced student engagement and metacognition through a collaborative learning
classroom environment and creating progressive lessons tightly aligned with curriculum,
a specific Student Learning Objective, and PACC Standards.
• Initiated interdisciplinary goal on PLC aiming to develop student writing across disciplines.
Grades 6 - 7
• Collaborated with History and Challenge teachers to create engaging interdisciplinary
and extension lessons
• Pushed in to ISL classes to provide extra support with Special Education teacher
• Designed common, aligned lessons for specific Essential Learning and created materials
to support learning target effectiveness for 7th Grade ELA PLC
Grades 9-10
• Assumed all responsibilities of full-time teacher including, lesson planning, communication
with parents, assessment of students, professional development, and department meetings.
Grades 8-9
• Developed materials aligned to Danielson and with Mastery’s specific, concrete, and
actionable instructional standards and practices.
• Chosen to participate in Professional Instructional Coaching program.
• Analyzed and compared student data on both grade and content teams.
Grades 9-11
• Managed a caseload of 17 students and instructed 3 Special Education English classes.
• Measured progress and adapted lessons using Pearson Success online and benchmarking.
• Taught a 5-week Summer Remediation English course to 28 students in grades 9 - 11.
courses: Special Education with Wilson’s Reading Certification
Education & Communications/
