Work Experience

With over 22 years of experience, I am dedicated to fostering effective language acquisition and promoting innovative, standards-based educational practices.

Roseville, California

World-Language Department Chair (2019-2023).
Taught Spanish levels 1, 2, and 3 within the IB Middle Years Programme.
Created highly-engaging, student-centered lessons based in comprehensible input in the target language.
Active member of a variety of grading and assessment committees for the district.
Facilitated Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) for my World-Language Team.
Active member of PBIS and Safety Teams.
Maximized use of multiple modalities to enrich and reinforce the learning experience of students.
Contributed to my department's use of a standards-based grading system.
Worked to cooperatively utilize and support school-wide learning strategies.
Continually refined my standards-based, communicative approach along with creating various formative and summative standards-based assessments.
Presented professional development sessions/workshops for the school and the district.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Create highly-engaging, student-centered lessons based in comprehensible input in the target language.
Contributed to the development of a vertically-articulated, Spanish-language program designed to complement the different learning pathways at VTCTA (law enforcement, 911 dispatch, computer forensics, CSI, and EMS).
Maximize use of multiple modalities to enrich and reinforce the learning experience of students.
Implemented a standards-based grading system in my department.
Work to cooperatively utilize and support school-wide learning strategies.
Continually refine my standards-based, communicative approach along with creating various formative and summative standards-based assessments.
Presented professional development sessions for the school and the district.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Created highly-engaging, student-centered lessons based in comprehensible input in the target language.
Maximized use of multiple modalities to enrich and reinforce the learning experience of students.
Contributed to my department's use of a standards-based grading system.
Worked to cooperatively utilize and support school-wide learning strategies.
Continually refined my standards-based, communicative approach along with creating various formative and summative standards-based assessments.
Co-sponsored the Spanish Club providing students with the opportunity to explore the Spanish language and culture outside of the classroom.
Presented professional development sessions/workshops for the school and the district.

Arcadia, California

Created highly-engaging, student-centered lessons based in comprehensible input in the target language.
Maximized use of multiple modalities to enrich and reinforce the learning experience of students.
Contributed to the writing of the standards-based Spanish curriculum in 2002
Actively promoted the Electronic Portfolio project within my classroom.
Continually refined my standards-based, communicative approach along with creating various formative and summative standards-based assessments.
Sponsored the German Club providing students with the opportunity to explore the German language and culture outside of the classroom.