Setting Student Goals

  • Social Studies: My personal goal is for students to write increasingly complex, detailed, and comprehensive blog posts that connect the social studies projects they do in class to their knowledge of the past, so they can reflect at the end of the year on how they have grown as informational writers and historians from month to month.

  • Writing: My personal goal is for students to have records of the evolution of the writing to accompany a completed writing sample that is polished to the best of their ability, so at the end of the year, students can that reflect on the evolution of their writing.

  • Reading: My personal goal is for 50% of students to make growth of some kind in the reading component on the MAP Assessment, and 10% of students to make growth in excess of 5% (Data Analysis).

  • Grammar: My personal goal is for 75% of students to make growth in the grammar component on the MAP Assessment, and 33% of students to make growth in excess of 5% (Data Analysis).

Being a Lifelong Learner

These are the books that I have read about education that continually inform my practice. I try to remain active in the GoodReads community to find the best, newest commentary on education.

Adding Teaching Fields

My teaching certificate is from the Georgia Professional Standards Commission in the USA. Below are descriptions of the teaching fields on my teaching certification.

  • (G.9-12) High School

Attending Trainings

Below are descriptions of the additional training that I have attended from organizations like AP College Board, International Baccalaureate, and NWEA.

  • International Baccalaureate

  • Gifted Education

  • NWEA

    • MAP Assessment Foundations Series

      • 3 hour training for “Essential Reports for Teachers” held at Westlake HS in Spring 2015.

      • 3 hour training for “Student Goal Setting and Growth” held at Westlake HS in Spring 2015.

      • 3 hour training for “Differentiating Instruction” held at Westlake HS in Spring 2015.

  • WIDA

    • C.L.I.M.B.S. Course (ELL/ELD)

      • 24 Hour Training for ELL/ELD C.L.I.M.B.S. (Content and Language Integration as a Means for Bridging Success) held at Ruamrudee International School from 9/12/16 to 12/28/16.

Attending Conferences

Below are descriptions of the conferences that I have attended while teaching internationally.

  • EARCOS

    • “Adolescent Literacy Conference”

      • Held by the International School of Bangkok in Thailand from 3/17/17 to 3/19/17.

    • “Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Common Core Social Studies Nonfiction Literacy Standards”

      • Held by Mont’Kiara International School in Kuala Lumpur from 11/5/16 to 11/6/16.

    • “From Basics to Blastoff” Getting Started with Reader’s Workshop

      • Held by International School Eastern Seaboard in Thailand from 9/10/16 to 9/11/16.

Attending Professional Development

Below are descriptions of the conferences that I have attended while teaching internationally.

  • Understanding By Design

    • “Creating an Understanding-Based Curriculum & Assessment System for 21st Century Learning”

      • Held by Chapters International from 10/28/21 to 11/11/21 for 6 hours with Jay McTighe.

    • “Designing and Using Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects”

      • Held by Knowledge Source Institute (KSIPD) for 2 hours on 8/26/21 with Jay McTighe.

  • Educational Collaborative for International Schools (ECIS)

    • “ECIS Middle Leaders Certification: Building and Leading Teams”

      • Held by ECIS online for 12 hours from 9/28/21 to 10/19/21.

    • “Create Positive: The Elephant in the Classroom: Processing the Pandemic”

      • Held by ECIS online self-paced from PENDING.