Educational Services
As Covid-19's traumatic effect on schools continues to linger; education requires dynamic solutions.
School Based Services
High impact tutoring
Coaching and professional development
Curriculum design/alignment
Educational program monitoring and evaluation
sample lesson plans wb.pdfEvery child needs a unique success story.
Structured Lit short a sample plan .docxThese lesson plans highlight a structured approach to teaching phonics to an individual or small group. I also have experience implementing Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI); Reading Recovery; and meeting individual IEP goals.
Fatima, a 9th grade student learning English, reads a poem she wrote about women. Merging relevant content with language objectives makes learning both more meaningful.
PHRE Final paper.pdfThe curriculum sampled here uses a gradual release and project-based-learning modality to teach peace. Students begin by learning techniques for inner peace, then apply this learning to their classrooms, and eventually to the broader world by selecting a community problem and working together to solve it.
Professional Development 9_30.pptxTeacher Certificate Workshops ongoing.docx - Google Docs.pdfOur teachers and schools are just as diverse as our students. How we coach needs to reflect this diversity. These two PD samples, one from a single session in Southeast DC, and the other from a series in rural Ethiopia; both highlight English language instruction but in very different ways.
International Baccalaureate Primary Years
A sampling of 4th grade curriculum
Living a Healthy Life
Revolutions and Comparative Governments
This 4th grade IB unit covered why people engage in revolutions and what the consequences of our organizations might be. Students concluded by creating their own systems of governments that required students to agree upon and write a constitution, set of rights and responsibilities, as well as an anthem and other cultural identifiers. I developed and taught units in comparative government and the US Revolution in conjunction with teachers who taught the Haitian and Bolivarian Revolutions.
DC Social Studies Standard: 4.8. Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.
Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Organize Ourselves
This 4th grade IB unit covered why people engage in revolutions and what the consequences of our organizations might be. Students concluded by creating their own systems of governments that required students to agree upon and write a constitution, set of rights and responsibilities, as well as an anthem and other cultural identifiers. I developed and taught units in comparative government and the US Revolution in conjunction with teachers who taught the Haitian and Bolivarian Revolutions.
Next Generation Science Standards:
4-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment
4-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
4-LS1-2 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Organize Ourselves
Empire, Colonization, and Energy
This unit for 4th graders at a multilingual immersion school discussed how people moved across the world and the consequences of these movements. Students specifically looked at how energy sources and types had consequences on the planet and the people who lived in the new and old worlds. Students ended by designing energy sources for a future impacted by climate change.
DC Social Studies Standard: 4.7. Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.
Transdisciplinary Theme: Where we are in place and time