Leadership Experience
Denver Public Schools
Robert F. Smith STEAM Academy
Founding Principal
Responsibilities:
Create and refine core content curricula to ensure alignment with Common Core and Colorado Academic Standards and school focus: Blackness, STEAM and Project Based Learning.
Build partnerships with district and external programs to develop pathways to college credit-bearing courses and extracurricular opportunities for students.
Design professional development opportunities for teachers based on individual and school-based areas of focus.
Serve as liaison between school design team and district representatives (marketing, legal, content area specialists).
Facilitate scholar voice through establishing Student Council, workshops, field trips and empathy interviews.
Write, edit and review family and community communication through newsletters and social media presence (Facebook, Instagram. YouTube).
Coordinate facility modifications with shared campus leader, according to district policy.
Engage educators, families and community stakeholders in planning conversations, consensus building conversations and events. .
Define and refine Unified Improvement Plan goals and areas of focus for approval from the school district and release by the State of Colorado's Department of Education.
Oversee the implementation of systems that allow instruction, operations, and school culture to be refined.
North High School
Ritchie Program for School Leaders, Cohort XIV
Principal Resident/Assistant Principal
Responsibilities:
Coach and Evaluator for Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and Special Education (English and Math)
Senior Class Administrator
Unified Improvement Plan Online Pilot Coordinator
Secondary School Assessment Leader
Community Partner Programming Liaison
Restorative Practices
Equity Team
Collegiate Prep Academy
Senior Team Lead
School Team Lead, Culture and Equity
Ohana Step Team Coach
YoungLife Leader
The State of Florida
Office of Mayor Andrew D. Gillum
City of Tallahassee
Program Associate
Facilitated all programming for the Family First Initiative, the signature program focused on early childhood education and resources for families, including:
- Planning a week of events focused on initiative outcomes
- Coordinating citizen-led task forces and planning committees
- Conducting research and critical analysis for a feasibility study of the Pay for Success Program in partnership with the office of Representative Loranne Ausley and the Institute for Child Success.
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
The College of Education, Office of the Dean
Graduate Assistant
- Aligned College of Education student and faculty accomplishments with the College of Education's Strategic Goals, University's Strategic Plan, and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) Standards.
- Coordinated the draft compilation of the faculty handbook
Florida Gubernatorial Fellows
Cohort XV
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Office of Youth and Family Advocacy
Statewide support offered to youth and families through the facilitation of the Resource Hotline, professional development, and planning of focus groups.
