Jacqueline Gregory

Nashville, TN | 615-415-1006 | jackiebgregory7@gmail.com

QUALIFICATIONS

• Efficient problem-solver able to see the big picture as well as focus in on details.
• Perceptive and able to develop strong professional working relationships.
• Love learning new technologies and researching ways to help improve education.

EXPERIENCE

Glenview Elementary School, Nashville, TN August 2013-Present

Librarian
• Manage library including selecting, cataloguing, circulating, and maintaining library
materials, and providing reference, bibliographical, and readers’ advisory services.
• Plan and teach classes on topics such as information literacy, digital literacy, library
instruction, books and authors, and technology use.
• Design, create, and present training to faculty during meetings, planning days, and
informally during team meetings on topics such as using Twitter to develop your
personal learning network, library resources, Limitless Libraries, databases, Thinking
Maps, Clever, using iPads in the classroom, Kahoot, Newsela, Actively Learn, and
more.
• Plan and deliver professional development for faculty, support school technologies,
and produce programs for special groups.
• Communicate and advocate for the school library program through print and social
media.
• Collaborate with teachers, instructional coaches, and other librarians to design lessons
and programs.
• Supervise full-time library clerk.

Akiva School, Nashville, TN August 2011-June 2013

Librarian
• Directed a school library program for kindergarten through sixth grade students.
• Provided training and information to other staff via presentations at weekly meetings,
planning days, email, and the library’s website.
• Planned weekly library lessons to encourage a lifelong love of reading, ethical use of
information, research skills, and critical thinking.
• Collaborated with teachers and provided resources and professional development for
staff.
• Managed collection, including development, cataloging and processing, and weeding.

Tusculum Elementary School, Nashville, TN August 2010-June 2011

Kindergarten Teacher
• Taught a class of English Language Learners and general education students.
 • Also completed a practicum in the school library in the evenings, working on weeding,
writing library curriculum, creating bibliographies, and other projects.

Brentwood YMCA Preschool, Brentwood, TN August 2007-August 2010

Preschool Coordinator (Assistant Director)
• Taught in pre-kindergarten classroom daily and assisted director before and after
school with daily operations.
• Lead monthly staff planning meetings, trained new teachers, and created teacher
training documents and materials.
• Created developmentally appropriate lesson plans for all 4-5year old classrooms,
assisted in tuition payment processing, event planning, and fundraising.
• In 2009 won the S.E.A.L. Award (Service-Enthusiasm-Attitude-Leadership) voted for
by peers.

Chapman’s Retreat Elementary School, Spring Hill, TN August 2006-July 2007

Kindergarten Teacher
• Instructed students in all subjects; developed lesson plans to coordinate with weekly
grade level themes.

EDUCATION
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN August 2009-December 2011
Master of Information Science

Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN August 2004-May 2006

Tennessee Teacher License, area of endorsement-Elementary K-6
Post Baccalaureate Teacher Education Program

Fordham University, Bronx, NY August 2000-May 2004

Bachelor of Arts Majors: Political Science and Environmental Studies

PROFESSIONAL / LEADERSHIP
• Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL)
o Highland Rim Regional Representative 2017-2018
o Presented “Helping the English Learner (EL) in the Library” at TASL
Conference 2015
• American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
o Won travel grant from Bound to Stay Bounds Books to attend the national
conference in Louisville, KY November 14-16, 2019
• Educators’ Cooperative (2017-present)
o Advisory Committee Member, Marketing Team
§ Experience using MailChimp email marketing, Kindful CRM, and
Trello project management
§ Presented “Digital Interactive Cross-Generational Book Club” at The
EdCo Summer Collective June 24, 2019
• Member of Nashville Public Education Foundation (NPEF) Teacher Cabinet 2018
• Glenview Instructional Leadership Team, 2013-present