Curriculum Vitae
OBJECTIVES
My goal is to eliminate the achievement gap with focused work in creating a truly collaborative environment through an educational renaissance. In order to better equip modern students with the knowledge to succeed, there is an inherent prerequisite to redesign educational flow. This statement means that subjects must truly interrelate, with a primary focus on problem solving skills, in order to provide the necessary foundation for our minds.
My goal has always been, and always will be, to teach students how to think. What they choose to think is up to them entirely; that is the song of ultimate freedom.
CURRENT RESEARCH
2019 - Current Reviving the Artistic Journey for the "Songs in Distress" Series: Creating a Record of the Transformation for a Visual Art Series and the
Potential for Promoting Dialogue through the Impact of Visual Arts as Social Commentary
2011 - Current Creating and Enhancing neural plasticity through multiple sensory activities during key learning sequences.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2005 - Current Adolescent Development in Learning and Cognition: A longitudinal study to inform future instructional practices
2014 - 2016 Project-based inquiry and development as a primary method of testing knowledge acquisition in a secondary science classroom setting.
(Science subject utilized in the developmental process: High School Astronomy; Standards aligned with TX TEKS)
GRANTS & AWARDS
2018 HESA Teacher in Space, NASA Flight Campaign, Flight school & Acting Mission Control Director for simulations, Hunstville, AL
2013 Teacher Quality Grant for Science, TX Weslyan University, Fort Worth, TX
2013 Model Schools Convention Science Delegate, Washington, DC
2012 – 2013 Fort Worth Teaching Fellows, TNTP Academy & Teaching Portfolio Completed
2011 – 2012 PTA Secretary for Boone Elementary
2011 SOURCE Symposium, Environmental Research Project Selected for Exhibition
2011 Awarded P.E.O. Grant for Continuing Education
2009 – 2011 Dean's List-Five Consecutive Semesters, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
2010 – 2011 Stillwater Art Scholarship Recipient
2003 NASA Student Flight Campaign, Original Experiment Conducted aboard KC-135
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EDUCATION
Texas Teacher Certificates: Science 8-12, Science 4-8, Art EC-12
Web-Centric Alternative Certification Program, Fort Worth, TX, July, 2013
This SBEC-endorsed alternative certification program begins with a summer training seminar focused on building student achievement through reading curriculum intervention. Etools4Education, the Web-Centric Program, currently approves my probationary certificates for science 4-8
Texas Teaching Fellows Summer Institute, Fort Worth, TX, July, 2012
This rigorous, district-endorsed alternative certification program begins with a summer training Institute focused on raising student achievement and includes intensive coursework in classroom management, high impact teaching strategies and differentiated instruction coupled with a field experience component teaching World History and Algebra I B during the summer school session at Trimble Tech HS.
BA Psychology, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, Dec. 2011
BA Fine Arts, St. Edward's University, Dec. 2011
Minor in Education, St. Edward's University, Dec. 2011
Psychology specialization in learning and cognition. Visual arts major with emphasis on therapeutic applications for post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as EC-12 arts education training and certification. Created unit plans for primary and secondary arts classrooms. Served in both middle and high school classrooms as a student teacher for two semester internships.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Teacher, Science 8th Grade August 2016 – current
Culpeper Middle School, Culpeper, VA
Currently instructing multiple 8th grade classes, including honors sections, and ELL courses.
Teacher, AP Physics & Astronomy August 2013 – June 2016
Crowley High School, Crowley, TX
Currently instructing multiple Physics classes, including honors sections, and teaching the upper-level, project based astronomy course.
Teacher, Science 8th Grade August 2012 – June 2013
Wedgwood Middle School, Fort Worth, TX
Taught two 8th grade Honors/Pre-AP and two regular science sections during the 2012-2013 school year. Logged over 357 hours of district-endorsed training through TNTP and HCM Champs/Classroom Management training. Spent significant time preparing lesson content, working with parents to ensure best possible outcomes for their students and preparing students for the rigor of High School science classes.
My goal is to eliminate the achievement gap with focused work in creating a truly collaborative environment through an educational renaissance. In order to better equip modern students with the knowledge to succeed, there is an inherent prerequisite to redesign educational flow. This statement means that subjects must truly interrelate, with a primary focus on problem solving skills, in order to provide the necessary foundation for our minds.
My goal has always been, and always will be, to teach students how to think. What they choose to think is up to them entirely; that is the song of ultimate freedom.
CURRENT RESEARCH
2019 - Current Reviving the Artistic Journey for the "Songs in Distress" Series: Creating a Record of the Transformation for a Visual Art Series and the
Potential for Promoting Dialogue through the Impact of Visual Arts as Social Commentary
2011 - Current Creating and Enhancing neural plasticity through multiple sensory activities during key learning sequences.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2005 - Current Adolescent Development in Learning and Cognition: A longitudinal study to inform future instructional practices
2014 - 2016 Project-based inquiry and development as a primary method of testing knowledge acquisition in a secondary science classroom setting.
(Science subject utilized in the developmental process: High School Astronomy; Standards aligned with TX TEKS)
GRANTS & AWARDS
2018 HESA Teacher in Space, NASA Flight Campaign, Flight school & Acting Mission Control Director for simulations, Hunstville, AL
2013 Teacher Quality Grant for Science, TX Weslyan University, Fort Worth, TX
2013 Model Schools Convention Science Delegate, Washington, DC
2012 – 2013 Fort Worth Teaching Fellows, TNTP Academy & Teaching Portfolio Completed
2011 – 2012 PTA Secretary for Boone Elementary
2011 SOURCE Symposium, Environmental Research Project Selected for Exhibition
2011 Awarded P.E.O. Grant for Continuing Education
2009 – 2011 Dean's List-Five Consecutive Semesters, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
2010 – 2011 Stillwater Art Scholarship Recipient
2003 NASA Student Flight Campaign, Original Experiment Conducted aboard KC-135
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EDUCATION
Texas Teacher Certificates: Science 8-12, Science 4-8, Art EC-12
Web-Centric Alternative Certification Program, Fort Worth, TX, July, 2013
This SBEC-endorsed alternative certification program begins with a summer training seminar focused on building student achievement through reading curriculum intervention. Etools4Education, the Web-Centric Program, currently approves my probationary certificates for science 4-8
Texas Teaching Fellows Summer Institute, Fort Worth, TX, July, 2012
This rigorous, district-endorsed alternative certification program begins with a summer training Institute focused on raising student achievement and includes intensive coursework in classroom management, high impact teaching strategies and differentiated instruction coupled with a field experience component teaching World History and Algebra I B during the summer school session at Trimble Tech HS.
BA Psychology, St. Edward's University, Austin, TX, Dec. 2011
BA Fine Arts, St. Edward's University, Dec. 2011
Minor in Education, St. Edward's University, Dec. 2011
Psychology specialization in learning and cognition. Visual arts major with emphasis on therapeutic applications for post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as EC-12 arts education training and certification. Created unit plans for primary and secondary arts classrooms. Served in both middle and high school classrooms as a student teacher for two semester internships.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Teacher, Science 8th Grade August 2016 – current
Culpeper Middle School, Culpeper, VA
Currently instructing multiple 8th grade classes, including honors sections, and ELL courses.
Teacher, AP Physics & Astronomy August 2013 – June 2016
Crowley High School, Crowley, TX
Currently instructing multiple Physics classes, including honors sections, and teaching the upper-level, project based astronomy course.
Teacher, Science 8th Grade August 2012 – June 2013
Wedgwood Middle School, Fort Worth, TX
Taught two 8th grade Honors/Pre-AP and two regular science sections during the 2012-2013 school year. Logged over 357 hours of district-endorsed training through TNTP and HCM Champs/Classroom Management training. Spent significant time preparing lesson content, working with parents to ensure best possible outcomes for their students and preparing students for the rigor of High School science classes.
