Leadership Experience 

January 2020 - Present: American International School Vietnam 

Coordinator: Reading PLC 

● Plan, coordinate, and lead professional learning meetings. 

● Facilitate communication between administrators and educators 
● Assist teachers in finding academic resources in order to explore research based reading programs 

August 2015 – June 2018​: A

​ l-Bayan Bilingual School (BBS), Kuwait 

Grade Level Head: Grade 2 

● Plan, coordinate, and lead collaboration meetings to develop a rigorous curriculum with common 
assessments 
● Facilitate communication between administrators and educators 
● Assist with PD planning and delivery 

Orientation Team Coordinator – Bayan Bilingual School, 2017 

● Planned for the arrival of new teachers 

● Responded to questions, checked apartments, and welcomed arriving teachers at the airport 

December 2013 – June 2015: American Baccalaureate School (ABS), Kuwait 

Head of Department: English 

● Contributed to the development of student centered common assessments with a focus on literacy 
● Collated and distributed standardized assessment data to better drive instruction 
● Led monthly collaboration meetings 
 
Leadership Goals 
I will develop my leadership in Professional Development.  
○ GOAL: Participate in the Teach-Meet sessions offered at my school by leading a session. 
○ RATIONALE: Choice boards will assist lower elementary teachers in differentiating student led inquiry 
online. (​Differentiating with Choice Boards​). 
○ NBPTS: Proposition 5: Teachers are members of learning communities.​ 
○ TLMD: Domain 3. Promoting Professional Learning for Continuous Improvement. 
○ OBJECTIVE: Provide a teach-meet session to my colleagues about choice boards. 

I will develop my leadership in Curriculum.  

GOAL: Ensure the selection of reading curriculum that includes a school wide scope and sequence for direct 
instruction in phonics.  
○ RATIONALE: According to the N ​ ational Reading Panel​, systematic phonics instruction produces significant 
benefits for students in kindergarten through 6th grade and for children having difficulty learning to read.” 
○ NBPTS: Proposition 2: Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to 
students. 
○ TLMD: Domain 2: A ​ ccesses and Uses Research to Improve Practice and Student Learning 
 ○ OBJECTIVE: Ensure that the reading program selection PLC has access to strong evidence of the efficacy 
of systematic instruction in phonics. 

I will develop my leadership in Professional Development.  

GOAL: Ensure the implementation of preservice and inservice professional development to enable teachers to 
use a program of systematic phonics instruction.  
○ RATIONALE: According to the N ​ ational Reading Panel​, teacher inservice professional development in 
techniques for explicit reading instruction leads to greater student gains in reading. 
○ N​BPTS: Proposition 5: Teachers are members of learning communities.​ 
○ TLMD: Domain 3. Promoting Professional Learning for Continuous Improvement. 
○ OBJECTIVE: Research school wide training programs and present them to the reading PLC.