Educational Consultant, Cuyahoga Educational Service Center, Independence, OH, 2010 to Present

• Created and provided professional development workshops for educators across multiple counties focusing on effective literacy strategies, formative assessment, curriculum mapping, common assessment design, and infrastructure management
• Lead and coached District Leadership Teams (DLT), Building Leadership Teams (BLT), and Teacher Based Teams (TBT) designed around best practices in instruction to develop collaboration amongst grade-level and grade-span teams 
• Modeled lessons incorporating highly engaging, research-based strategies in a variety of urban, suburban, rural, and charter schools to increase student achievement
• Developed, facilitated, and monitored district-wide Writing Across the Curriculum initiative in multiple districts
• Created K-12 cross curricular standards-based rubrics and professional development to be used during collaborative teaming and to support vertical alignment of content literacy standards 

 
MAX Teaching Consultant, 2007 to Present

• Provided professional development workshops focusing on standards-based content-literacy activities to be implemented in classrooms K-12 and across all subject areas in hundreds of schools across the United States
• Planned and modeled lessons using content-literacy activities in K-12 classrooms in urban, suburban, rural, charter, and career tech schools in all subject areas
• Observed and coached teachers while providing specific and timely feedback for refinement and reinforcement of teaching practices
• Created new MAX Teaching strategies now shared around the country as part of the MAX Teaching professional development workshop
• Incorporated use of technology and 21st Century Learning skills into MAX Teaching lessons including critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity

Adjunct Professor, Ashland University 2009 to 2016  

• Taught Content Area Literacy course focusing on literacy strategies across all content areas
• Developed a syllabus to include 20 literacy strategies to share with educators taking the course
• Incorporated current educational research and articles as the readings for the course
• Assessed participants in their abilities to create literacy-based lessons and present lessons to the class

Solon City Schools, 2003 to 2010

• Taught Social Studies 7th grade World History, 8th grade American History, 9th grade World History and HS Sociology
• Served as the Literacy Coach for 5th Social Studies 2008-2009 
• Provided the district with professional development on content literacy and United Streaming

Highland Local Schools, 1996 to 2003

• Taught HS Social Studies including; Advanced Placement U.S. History, World History, Civics, and History of Sports in America
• Served as the Social Studies Department Chair 1999-2003
• Conceptualized and developed the curriculum for History of Sports in America which aligned to state standards and was adopted by Medina County in 1999
• Piloted a class using Highland’s Distance Learning Lab where students corresponded with nationally recognized historians and authors
• Wrote a grant to bring Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father and Cambodian Genocide survivor to speak with my world history students after we read her book
• Advisor for Close-Up Washington 1997-1999 and recruited, organized, fund raised, and chaperoned students on a one week in-depth study of Washington D.C.
• Coached football, baseball, and softball for 8 years of combined coaching

• 4.0 GPA  in Masters of Education
• My Reading History published in Reading and Learning to Read (7th edition) Vacca and Vacca
• Recognized by Cleveland Plain Dealer (11-20-97) and Medina Sun Banner on two occasions (2-6-03 & 12-2-99) for innovative teaching practices
• Presented Max Teaching at the 2010 Association of Middle Level Education Conference, Baltimore, MD 
• Presented Multi Media Family History Project at the 2003 Ohio School Net Technology Conference, Columbus, OH