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My educational background, along with my professional experience, makes me an excellent candidate for any position that allows for planning, managing, developing, editing, writing, proofreading lesson plans, and other documents, as well as educating students/adults of all ages, requiring leadership of programs/classes, communication, or administrative responsibilities. I currently hold a BA in History and have completed my Master’s in Public Administration. The positions that I have been fortunate to obtain and as a recent owner, director, planner, decorator, interior designer, educator/teacher, mentor, colleague, friend, and active citizen within my community, I consider a privilege. I currently enjoy flexibility in being employed by Varsity Tutors and certified to teach, as well as qualified in over 150 subject areas, including TEFL, SPED, dysgraphia, dyslexia, and other learning challenge areas. Events that I have planned and expertly executed have been with professionalism, uniqueness, and overall design aspect. Courses and classes that I have taught, activities completed, and programs that I have been able to implement all required administrative skills/knowledge and development of budgets/programs and allowed for the implementation of unique ideas that would prove beneficial to many. Involvement in so many various programs has given me the platform to be able to teach, speak, develop grade-appropriate curriculum and activities, courses, and other classes. The classes, and special speaking engagements, often led to success and personal development for the attendees. It was gratifying to be able to work as a pre-k teacher, followed by later teaching long term for James City County Public Schools. While teaching, I enjoyed writing and creating lesson plans for various grade levels with unique activities, creative presentations, and more.
Travel allowed for growth and development in my leadership skills, as I had the privilege of being on the board for Cal Ripken Baseball, the co-director for two separate MOPS groups, and directed many church organizations, as well as a Girl Scout troop leader, swim coach, softball coach, and more. For three summers, I was a camp counselor at the “Fresh Air Home” in GA, with its rich history, located on Tybee Island in GA for underprivileged children, then as a leader/mentor/counselor for “The Living Vine,” in Savannah, GA, my senior year of college. I found myself learning from unique experiences and developing personal fundamental leadership skills. Volunteering as President for PTA and PTO’s respectively, being an Ombudsman for multiple USCG units, teaching piano; holding the position as team mom for well-respected an extensive high school football program at Warhill High school in Williamsburg, VA, being President of “Wellington Estates Homeowners Association” and working at a large University, has only enhanced my role as a leader. More recently, it was rewarding to own an event planning venue. The venue, “Lighthouse Historical Venue,” required me, as the owner, to ensure every aspect of each event for every client (from birthday parties, showers, graduations, reunions, weddings/receptions, rehearsal dinners, homeschool events, and community engagement events), were well planned, designed and executed in the most professional manner. Each of these jobs or volunteer experiences have required a high degree of both educational and financial knowledge, computer skills, creating documents, newsletters, public speaking, communication with others, website design and management, making important decisions while ensuring budgets are adequately maintained and reviewed, and signing many requisitions and purchase orders. The volunteer positions that I currently hold or have held, as well as previous jobs, including those that allow, or have allowed for keeping active in the community and engaging/networking with others in the business world as well as my church and with family and friends throughout Effingham County. The most important job, being a dedicated wife mother, close to my family, my church, and ensuring overall personal goals are met, as well as jobs and volunteer positions chosen are enjoyable.
As a wife and mom of a college graduate and a daughter whose passion is “horses,” 4-H, etc., I find myself immersed in these things as well. I consider myself to be a very extroverted person and feel I have the leadership training, knowledge, and personality to enhance and lead any program that I’m blessed to be a part of. I thoroughly enjoy planning, teaching, evaluating, implementing programs, and have many ideas for programs. Teaching and learning skills, earning certifications, expanding my vocabulary daily, allow me to keep my education, technological advances, and skills as well as knowledge of social media current. Finally, having the privilege of being a Coast Guard wife and traveling the continental United States for the past 22 years, as well as being a stay-at-home mom for 20 years, allowed for volunteering, leading, directing, owning my own businesses, and starting/directing many programs. I believe there is not a more significant way to learn about such a diverse nation than to share in the many amazing experiences that were presented. I do enjoy editing, writing, and reading reports, thesis papers, articles, stories, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as have a deep love for literature. English as a second language has become something that I find myself enjoying teaching, writing lesson plans, and executing them as well. The most recent being the completion of the TEFL certification course and currently working on becoming a certified Google Classroom Educator.
I have more than 26 years of experience in the fields of Education and Administration. One will find that my resume shows consistency in working hard, mostly in volunteer organizations, and having always increased my responsibilities. The credentials that I have are a direct result of my expertise in the fields listed, as well as my commitment to personal and professional excellence, and continually striving to learn and even further develop excellent written and oral communication skills.
I have taught in classrooms having 15-30 students while adhering to both public school and private curriculum guidelines. As a result of my instruction and supplementary tutoring, my students achieved well on tests taken, and their study skills and knowledge of each subject were remarkable.
I maintain this high standard of academic achievement at each school that I have been privileged to teach in across the continental U.S. However, my impact as a teacher extends beyond scores to focus on each individual student. I have held supplementary tutoring sessions with struggling and special needs students and regularly integrate new classroom technologies into a lesson to excite my students. Given my years of experience and passion for teaching, I am confident that I would make a positive impact as part of the professional instruction team in your remarkable educational setting.