Professional Leadership

Since 2006, I have been involved with several state, district, and school-wide projects implementing the CLC framework to implement SIM components in a vriety of different school settings and environments.  Following is a list of projects I have been involved in:
Team Leader – Springfield-Chicopee Striving Readers Project in Springfield, Massachusetts
June 2006 – June 2010
Mentor:  Sue Woodruff

Team Member – Portland Striving Readers Project in Portland, Oregon
June 2006 - June 2007

Site Coordinator – Midwest Content Literacy Continuum Project focusing on 17 sites in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana
June 2007 – December 2010

Team Member - Michigan Striving Readers Project- Several schools in Michigan
June 2010 – December 2011

Response to Intervention Demonstration Grant – Implementation of SIM Writing Strategies through a Tiered Approach in Yonkers, New York
July 2010 – July 2011      

Project Manager - Statewide Secondary Literacy Project: North Carolina State Department 
June 2011 - Present            

CLC Building Teacher Leader at James River High School from 2005-2011. 
During this time, I mentored under the following Site Leaders:  Dr. Rosemary Tralli, Dr. Diane Dixon, Jerri Neduchal, and Project Coordinator, Diane Gillam. 

• Lead school’s adolescent literacy team
• Coordinate, organize, and administer school-wide diagnostic reading assessment
• Develop and maintain an assessment system for analysis of student achievement and diagnostic reading assessment data to determine student services in levels of CLC     
  
• Serve on comprehensive school improvement planning team (CSIP)
  
• Examine Virginia Standards of Learning results and other data points to develop Professional Learning Plan to meet state and federal expectations, increase graduation rates, and improve school-wide tiered instruction through CLC    
• Coordinate and provide SIM Professional Development and coaching for teachers and administrators      
• Plan, coordinate and facilitate teacher leader meetings, department meetings, and cross-curricular department meetings      
• Provide instructional coaching to teachers and administrators
• Track teacher professional development and coaching participation
  
• Plan, coordinate, organize, and present at state demonstration site visits for the Content Literacy Continuum
• Mentor potential SIM Professional Developers  and new SIM Professional Developers    
  
• Collaborate with other teacher leaders     
• Serve as liaison between central office administration, building administration, University of Kansas staff, College of William and Mary Evaluation Team, and Virginia Department of Education   
  
• Facilitate tiered instruction for general education students, students with disabilities, and other learners
  
• Facilitate monthly data review sessions for progress monitoring of students who were receiving strategic reading and writing instruction and/or interventions
  
• Review and update Professional Learning Plan
• Work with principal and adolescent literacy team in developing continuity across evidence-based instructional practices
  
• Present information to parents and the community regarding CLC
• Coordinate and administer the CLC and SIM school improvement literacy initiatives at the school and the division level
• Provide leadership, professional development, and support high-quality implementation of SIM and lead change efforts
• Proactively support all levels of the CLC
• Integrate and align planning and professional development of SIM and CLC into division and school infrastructure
  
• Facilitate integration of literacy into all content areas
• Worked as the CLC Building Lead at James River High School which was the 2011 recipient of the SIM Impact Award  
  

Project Coordinator for KUCRL from 2011-2012 working with other CLC sites in Virginia.

• Collaborate with schools and project staff to ensure expansion of CLC
• Provide leadership and guidance to schools and central office CLC teams    
• Facilitate integration of literacy into all content areas     
• Support and recruit the growth of the Strategic Instruction Model ™ (SIM) Professional Developer’s Network
• Integrate planning and professional development of SIM and CLC into existing division and school infrastructure
• Guide schools in the utilization of technology tools such as Hoxie to support data collection and data-based decision making       
• Collect and prepare data from project sites for research and evaluation purposes by Center for Research on Learning researchers
• Monitor teacher implementation and fidelity data of SIM
• Plan and deliver SIM Professional Development and coaching to teachers and administrators
• Organize student classroom performance and achievement data
• Plan, organize, and facilitate sessions at the JMU CLC Leadership Academy
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders including the Virginia Department of Education, the College of William and Mary Evaluation Team, Training and Technical Assistance Centers, and the CLC Sites to prepare written reports showing project progress
• Facilitate integration of literacy into all content areas
• Recruit and mentor potential SIM Professional Developers
  
• Mentor new SIM Professional Developers

CLC Site Leader for Tazewell Middle and Tazewell High School 2012-2014.

• Collaborate with schools and KUCRL staff to ensure expansion of CLC      
• Provide leadership and guidance to schools and central office CLC teams  Examine Virginia Standards of Learning results and other data points
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders including KUCRL staff, The College of William and Mary Evaluation Team, and staff from the Virginia Department of Education to prepare written reports showing project progress
• Plan and deliver SIM Professional Development and coaching to teachers and administrators
• Guide schools in the utilization of technology tools such as Hoxie to support data collection and data-based decision making       
• Collect and prepare data from project sites for research and evaluation purposes by Center for Research on Learning researchers
• Monitor teacher implementation and fidelity data of SIM
• Support and recruit the growth of the Strategic Instruction Model ™ (SIM) Professional Developer’s Network
• Integrate planning and professional development of SIM and CLC into existing division and school infrastructure
• Recruit and mentor potential SIM Professional Developers
  
• Mentor new SIM Professional Developers

I have nine continuous years (2005-2014) of work and ongoing learning with the Content Literacy Continuum. My experiences include the school and division level, KUCRL, and the Virginia Department of Education.

This is the preview presentation that I created and gave to them to begin the conversation on how we did business in the school using SIM and CLC.  The school continues to use CLC as their MTSS model and it is going well.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_1Dyzl26ya-RVFxYkY1RGFWVFU/view?usp=sharing