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PROF IL E
A dedicated and passionate educator and lifelong learner with many years of
experience leading in schools as a teacher, teaching artist, mentor, and administrator.
Possesses dynamic teaching skills, and a strong ability in leading and collaborating with
others to foster cohesive teams and communities based on being heard, seen, and
valued. A flexible worker, with strong organizational skills and a great ability in calmly
and strategically solving problems.
ED UCATION
Master of Fine Arts: Puppet Arts 2015
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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BASIS Ed
K-9th Head of School, BASIS Pflugerville, Pflugerville TX-2022-Present
• Oversaw student support programs to ensure students needing academic or
social/emotional help were getting the services needed.
• Key point of contact for the parents, ensuring they were a very important
component of their student’s education.
• Fundraised with the operations teams to ensure we meet our Annual Teacher
Fund goals (for teacher bonuses).
• Collaborated with the parent Booster organization and developed events,
fundraising programs, and campus culture builders through engaging their
active involvement.
• Analyzed data collected by my directors to ensure students needing support
were receiving it.
• Craft coached teachers on best practices in the classrooms to ensure the
students are constantly growing.
• Facilitated the staff meetings weekly, ensuring content presented was aligned
with the needs/goals of our campus.
• Cultivated a monthly virtue program to ensure students understood and could
demonstrate important virtues of being a young adult.
• Planned events, such as the Fall Festival and International Festival, to create a
robust community within our campus.
• Hiring Manager for all faculty and staff at this campus.
• Onboarded new teachers upon starting the new job.
• Evaluated and assessed teachers and staff on campus.
• Documented and shared progress on new school construction through Phase 1
and Phase 2 of construction.
• Coordinated and conducted enrollment events to attract new students and
families to the school.
• Gave weekly tours of our campus for prospective families.
• Attended and assisted with grade level events held after school.
• Developed uniform school rules and procedures to be implemented across
campus.
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K-4th Grade Art & Engineering Subject Expert Teacher, BASIS Austin Primary, Austin,
TX-2020-2021
• Shaped the visual arts and engineering program as a founding member.
• Mentored new BASIS teachers on best classroom practices, online educational
platforms including gradebook, and curriculum guidance.
• Developed 5 curriculums for visual arts and 5 curriculums for engineering.
• Taught students both in engineering and art classes on using 21st Century
thinking skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and
creativity.
1st-2nd Grade Drama & Music Subject Expert Teacher, BASIS Chandler Primary North,
Chandler, AZ —2018-2020
• Developed curriculums and taught first and second grade drama and music
classes.
• Facilitated providing a collaborative environment where students learned
through process drama, creative drama, and theatre aspects including
storytelling and basics of acting for young performers.
• Directed over 300 students in fall and spring musicals.
• Managed the technical aspects (lighting, sound, set) of school performances.
1st-4th Grade Engineering Subject Expert Teacher, BASIS Chandler Primary North,
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Chandler AZ-2017-2018
• Created curriculums and taught 1st-4th grade engineering courses.
• Developed exciting hands-on projects and activities to explore aspects of
engineering.
• Prepared materials and orders for projects.
• Revitalized the engineering courses through blending arts integration into the
program.
TEACHING ARTIST
Teaching Artist, ChildsPlay Theatre Company, Tempe, AZ —2018
• Developed and taught summer drama classes for ages 4-6.
• Implemented using puppetry, creative drama, process drama, and young
performer techniques to teach basics of theatre.
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• Created and facilitated an after-school program for two different elementary
schools that explored different forms of puppetry and puppet history.
• Guided youth in discovering their own puppet design process.
• Directed youth in staging their puppet shows.
• Mentored students on using Growth Mindset as part of the creative process and
learning to apply mindset techniques in their academics and in life.
Teaching Artist, Through My Lens: Youth Film Club-Bright Futures, Ypsilanti, MI —2015
• Developed and facilitated an after-school curriculum that explored the art of
film.
• Taught film-making techniques, storyboard development, film terminology,
critical analysis performing for the camera, and screen writing with youth in
grades first through fifth.
• Mentored youth in the developmental process of writing original short films,
performing, directing, and in the filming of their productions.
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HIGHER ED UCATION TEACHING
Guest Presenter, Theatre Industry Professionalism, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH —
2008
• Taught a professional networking and development class for theatre majors.
AD M INISTRATION
Assistant House Manager-Nutmeg Series Connecticut Repertory Theatre 2013
Storrs, CT
• Oversaw the front of house upkeep and cleanliness.
• Welcomed and provided theatre patrons with a warm and inviting experience.
• Facilitated organizing ushers and assisted patrons to their theatre seats.
• Managed theatre program numbers and distribution.
TECHNICAL D IRECTOR
• Taught high school students technical theatre aspects while working on
productions at the school including building sets, lighting design programming,
sound programming, and in prop design.
• Maintained the sound and lighting equipment of the theatre.
• Mentored students interested in technical theatre majors for college.
• Built flexible stage for BASIS Pflugerville.
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• Hung/programmed lighting each rehearsal (with my trained students) since the
portable stage was in the lunchroom. Standard stage lighting was designed,
hung and programmed in a proscenium theatre as well.
• Oversaw live sound/lighting operations during the shows.
• Facilitated and constructed with the students sets and props.
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Desdemona University of Toledo 2005
Studio Theatre
M USEUM EXPERIENCE
Curator, Exceptional and Uncommon: The Puppetry of Dick Myers, Ballard Museum
of Puppetry, Storrs, CT —2013
• Curated and designed an exhibit highlighting the life of puppeteer Dick Myers
and his puppets.
• Spearheaded the restoration of puppets and puppeteer’s items donated to the
museum’s collection.
• Researched and developed exhibit information placards.
• Hosted events based on the exhibit.
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CONF ERENCE & SYM POSIUM PRESENTATIONS
New Publications in Puppetry, National Puppetry Festival, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN —2019
The Life of Puppeteer Dick Myers, Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry Storrs, CT, —
2013
• Presented a lecture at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry about the
life and puppet works by Dick Myers.
Puppetry For the Very Young, National Puppetry Festival, Concordia University, St. Paul,
MN, — 2017
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• Trained students on the skills needed to operate machinery within the shop.
• Managed the paint and dye shop by ensuring materials were kept stocked,
cleaned, and
properly stored.
L ANGUAGES
• Fluent English
• Introductory French
REF ERENCES
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