Professional Experience

Educator

Minot Public Schools - Minot, North Dakota

September 2015 to May 2023

• Optimized student academic, social, and emotional success through personalized instruction and interventions, continuously monitoring progress and leveraging research data to allocate resources effectively, resulting in an improved positive culture and alignment of business goals and objectives.

• Developed and implemented a curriculum and assessment strategy with state standards. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, refined assessments based on feedback, and enabled students to articulate their learning progress independently.

• Led cross-collaborative growth among colleagues through facilitating presentations and meetings to ensure best practices, data-driven insights, and instructional innovations.

• Promoted a positive atmosphere by flexibly connecting teams, fostering creativity, collaboration, and teamwork, and aligning efforts with a clear product strategy to ensure that initiatives were effectively coordinated and aligned with business requirements.

• Innovated and piloted new district-wide initiatives while communicating with clients to ensure their needs and feedback were integrated into the process.

• Led the testing and implementation of a new product idea aimed at promoting youth mental health and suicide awareness within the school district, utilizing a research strategy to identify effective interventions and measure program outcomes.

• Organized initiatives to enhance the culture through engaging activities and events.

• Implemented and successfully introduced a program that was adopted district-wide, demonstrating strong product leadership by aligning the program with district goals, engaging stakeholders, and driving its adoption through strategic planning and execution.

• Ability to understand and influence aspiring educators by providing intuitive methodologies, management techniques, and planning strategies to support their professional growth and development.