Julia McNutt 
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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.

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