Resume


 * EDUCATION**

**Arcadia University**, Glenside, PA August 2011 (anticipated) Masters of Education, GPA 4.0/4.0 CERTIFICATION: Pennsylvania School Library Media Specialist: K-12

**The Pennsylvania State University**, University Park, PA May 2007 Bachelor of Science in Education, Concentration in Arts and Humanities, GPA 3.42/4.00 CERTIFICATION: Pennsylvania Elementary Education: Kindergarten to Sixth Grade.

**PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE**

**Student Librarian,** //Springfield Township High School// January 2011 – Present Erdenheim, PA • Assist Dr. Joyce Valenza in library responsibilities and obligations. • Collaborate with teachers to create lessons that follow the school curriculum. • Instruct students on how to search, evaluate, and share information. • Observe and reflect upon all aspects of the K-12 school library. • Develop a mastery of the roles and responsibilities of a school library media specialist. • Assist in the management of Teacher Library Ning (TLN). • Write reviews for the PSLA’s Young Adult Top Forty Review Committee.

**Teen Librarian Specialist,** //Haverford Township Free Library// June 2010 – Present Havertown, PA • Create, market, and supervise middle and high school after school programs. • Promote young adult public library use within local schools. • Maintain and develop the young adult fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, and manga collection. • Perform circulation responsibilities. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Research and assist in writing grants for the library.

**Second Grade Teacher**, //Bayard Taylor Elementary School// July 2009 – September 2010 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Selected to be a part of a team-teaching pilot program by the school district. (Co-teaching model.) <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Supervise Temple University practicum students. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Working with students of all abilities within an inclusion classroom. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Creating and implementing lesson plans to engage and captivate children from age 6 to 10. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Chosen to gather and present Census 2010 lessons for teachers K-5. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Coordinate parents-teacher conferences to review their child’s performance and behavior. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Programmed and executed parent teacher night with 100% attendance during and after school. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Perform Comprehensive Student Assistance Process that helps to build schedule for interventions.

**First Grade Teacher**, //Bayard Taylor Elementary School// October 2007 – June 2009 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Develop classroom management strategies that outline responsibilities and rules. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Coordinate a schedule system to fit all lessons within the school day. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Design lesson plan templates, activities, and independent work using technology. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Organize mini-lessons into separate workstations to enhance guided reading.

**Publications**

**Spartan Guide,** //Springfield Township High School// March 2011 //[]//

**NeverEndingSearch: Our New Posters,** //Dr. Joyce Valenza's School Library Journal Blog// March 2011 []

**PROFESSIONAL TRAINING**

**Regional Summer Reading Workshop,** Haverford, PA January 2011 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Keith Curry Lance spoke about Counting on Results: Tools for Outcome-Based <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Evaluation in Public Libraries. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Impacts summer reading has on student academic achievement.

**Delaware County Library Circulation In-service,** Haverford, PA November 2010 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Introduced Millennium ILS updates. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Reviewing catalog system’s essential tools for the public library.

**Co-Teaching and Special Education,** Philadelphia, PA December 2009 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Integrating co-teaching techniques to enhance student’s special needs. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Discussing styles of co-teaching work best for inclusion classes.

**Pennsylvania State Writing Standards**, Philadelphia, PA November 2009 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Learned the PA writing standards for grades Kindergarten through Third. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Reviewing writing rubrics and teaching techniques guided, interactive, and modeled writing.

**Introduction to Co-Teaching,** Philadelphia, PA August 2009 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Introduced to teaching techniques for two professional teachers in the classroom. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Collaborating with another teaching to create lessons, workshops, projects, and field trips.

**Philadelphia District Literacy Curriculum**, Philadelphia, PA July 2009 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Training using Storytown, the new literacy curriculum in the school district. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Training included pre-written lessons in read aloud, writing, guided and shared reading, and phonics.

**Children’s Literacy Initiative**, Philadelphia, PA October 2007 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• "Reading Out Loud To Support Instruction: Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary Development" <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• "Strategies For Establishing An Effective Literacy Environment"

**Professional Data Analysis Professional Development**, Philadelphia, PA October 2007 <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Collecting student performance data and using it to improve teaching and learning. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.6in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Strategies for monitoring student progress in the classroom.

**COMPUTER SKILLS**

**Microsoft Windows/ Apple Mac** <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Destiny & Millennium Library Catalogues <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Microsoft Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, ACCESS, Outlook, and OneNote) <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Adobe Applications (Flash, Photoshop, Dream Weaver, and Image Ready) <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Animation & Web Design

**Online Resources** <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Web 2.0 (Wiki, Blogs, Glogsters, Social Networking) <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.7in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">• Online Databases (Gale, ProQuest, Power Library, InfoTrac, NoodleTools, etc.)

**References available upon request.**