In this position, my primary job goals were:

❖ to refine the current appraisal instrument used to evaluate school principals,
❖ to evaluate principals
❖ to create and provide training on the principal evaluation tool,
❖ to create and implement a year-long training program, Level II, to cultivate the skills and knowledge necessary for aspiring administrators to successfully lead schools in the future (leading to certification in School Principal),
❖ to provide professional development and support to current school principals
❖ to create and maintain a webpage to house resources for the day-to-day operation of the school principal
❖ to create and maintain a webpage to archive the School Principal classes
❖ to author an evaluation tool for administrators who serve at the district level, and to create and maintain training on that instrument as well.
❖ Additionally, I have supported administrators in a myriad of situations and filled in for those who may have emergencies or are otherwise unable to completely fulfill their school-based responsibilities
❖ Other duties, as assigned by the superintendent or designees.

Primary Responsibilities and Job Goal:

❖ Responsible for all site-based decisions, such as budgeting, hiring, teacher evaluations, collapsing of positions (ending employment).
❖ Progress monitoring for curriculum elements in our School Performance Plan, disaggregating data for data-based decisions so that all students can be taught for their greatest growth, ensuring that our teachers have the training to bring their practices in alignment with the needs of our students as reflected by our data.
❖ Responsible for all programs affecting student achievement, customer relations/”branding” and marketing our school in order to reach more families, resource management, school performance, and faculty and staff organization and training.
❖ Job Goal continued to be the maintenance of A+ status and APY designation of our school.
❖ I worked with our feeder elementary school principals to discuss areas of common interest and to find ways to facilitate a smoother induction into middle school (including the assimilation of all fifth-graders onto our campus).
❖ Creating an environment in which young people learn content, technological skills, and interpersonal skills to lead them through high school, college and career is of great importance to me. Our future rests in preparing them for success.
❖ During each of the years I was at Destin Middle School, I arranged and hosted a national middle school conference at my school, the Nuts & Bolts Conference, which was a 4-day conference with internationally renowned writers and speakers such as Rick Wormeli, Debbie Silver, Jack Berckemeyer, Mark Macleod, and Bill McBride.

In this capacity, I served directly with the Superintendent and the Chief Officer of Quality Assurance to provide appropriate, timely information to our schools relevant to student performance and legislative mandates, and I provided many relevant training initiatives. In addition, I often worked collaboratively with other departments to work on initiatives such as a new teacher evaluation tool, a new school-based evaluation instrument, and innovative programs. I wrote the Leadership Development Plan for our district, which was a model for the state for a couple of years, as well as the district’s K-12 Reading Plan. I also assisted with the district’s Pupil Progression Plan, EOCs, and other major initiatives such as the Strategic Plan and accreditation efforts.

Primary Responsibilities and Job Goals as Director of Curriculum, Assessment & Instruction (K-12) included:

❖ District SACS Accreditation
❖ Reading Initiative-Literacy
❖ Reading K-12 Plan
❖ Middle School Issues
❖ OK Writes K-12
❖ Principals Meetings & Community Groups – updates & Power Point presentations, per the request of the Superintendent & Chief Officer of QA
❖ Assessment Programs (GRADE, G-MADE, Learnia, FAIR, etc.)
❖ Student Teacher Placement
❖ 3rd Grade Reading Camp
❖ 3rd grade Retention and Promotion
❖ Credit Recovery Programs
❖ Oversight of curriculum specialists (to include textbook adoption cycles, and grade-level and department specific initiatives, K-12, and minority/closing the gap)
❖ School visits for monitoring purposes (Curriculum initiatives, SPPs, Literacy Initiative, and others)
❖ Assisted with the district’s first EOCs (and coordinated with Hillsborough county on the item bank)

Primary Responsibilities and Job Goal:

❖ Responsible for all site-based decisions (as listed with Destin Middle School)
❖ Progress monitoring for curriculum elements in our School Performance Plan, disaggregating data for data-based decisions so that all students can be taught for their greatest growth, ensuring that our teachers have the training to bring their practices in alignment with the needs of our students as reflected by our data
❖ Responsible for all programs affecting student achievement, customer relations, resource management, school performance, and faculty and staff organization.
❖ Job Goal continued to be the maintenance of A+ status of our school.
❖ I began quarterly meetings with our five feeder elementary school principals to discuss areas of common interest and ways to facilitate a smoother induction into middle school. This initiative assisted with matriculation and vertical alignment for the greater success of all our schools. I did the same with our local high school so that our 8th-graders transitioned more easily into that next level.
❖ Key ‘opportunity’= a new charter school opened up behind this school the year before I came; I had to brand and market this school’s programs so as to recruit back students who had left to attend the charter school
❖ In addition, I previously franchised and served as the Director of Okaloosa Online (virtual school) for our district (simultaneous to being a principal for several years). In this capacity, I was responsible for coordinating with the Florida Virtual School and other online entities to provide appropriate online courses and services for the schools and students of Okaloosa county.
❖ I also worked with our EETT grant to further promote distance learning programs for our district.

Frequently serve as adjunct instructor and guest speaker in the departments of Curriculum & Instruction and Foundations & Technology, and well as with Foundations of Education Department. Two-time presenter for UWF’s “Technology and All the Jazz” conference.

Adjunct instructor for Technology and Education course; worked collaboratively with Dr. Anne Southard and Dr. Goldstein.

Primary Responsibilities and Job Goal:

❖ Responsible for all site-based decisions and programs affecting student achievement, customer relations, resource management, school performance, and faculty and staff organization.
❖ In addition, I also served as the Director for Distance Learning for Okaloosa County. In this capacity, I was responsible for coordinating with the Florida Virtual School and other online entities to provide appropriate online courses and services for the schools and students of Okaloosa county.
❖ I was the first to implement distance courses in our district and initiated our franchise with the Florida Virtual School (Okaloosa Online). I put online courses in place to expand opportunities for our students, as we were the smallest and most geographically remote school in our district, located near the Alabama line.
❖ I also worked with our EETT grant to further promote distance programs for our district.

Primary Responsibilities and Job Goal:

❖ To improve instruction through the increased and effective utilization of technology and library media materials in all subject areas
❖ Automation of all library procedures to the extent possible, county-wide
❖ To enable teachers and library media specialists to insure students’ academic and personal success. This goal is accomplished through many objectives and corresponding strategies.
❖ In this capacity, I coordinated and directly supervised district Technology & Media staff (20 individuals) as well as 40 library media specialists in schools;
❖ I served as a member and as secretary of the Okaloosa Communications Foundation;
❖ I coordinated school library media programs and corresponding training opportunities for teachers and staff through the use of our district training lab OR by bringing our portable lap-top lab to the building levels;
❖ I coordinated the Title VI federal grant, EETT, and the Extended Access Grant application process for our district.
❖ I had sole and direct oversight of the courier services division (to include hiring, purchasing vans, tires, fuel) and monitoring for route efficiency
❖ I helped work with the FCC to purchase additional licenses and begin our Instructional Television programming for the district. In addition, I served on the state FAME Legislative Committee, among other responsibilities.

Position: Library Media Specialist

Primary Responsibilities: Primary designer of the layout of the media center and its outlying areas; selection of materials for the new collection (both print and non-print), as well as selection of equipment for the studio areas and equipment collection for circulation to teachers; planning & delivering both formal and informal training for teachers on use of technologies now available to them in our new school (i.e., TekNet, data projectors, Internet, InfoTrac, and others); designer of fair booth for DMS; Chairman of the Honors Committee; School Improvement Committee; FAME Legislative Committee; Technology Contact; train and monitor students on the operation of the closed circuit television studio and editing suite; equitable duty committee chair; safety committee; discipline committee; assemblies coordinator; community news liaison, as well as curricular duties.

Position: Media Specialist

Primary Responsibilities: Automation of complete collection; develop and maintained knowledge of new and emerging technologies; structured and informal workshops for teachers on use of available technologies (interactive laserdics, FIRN, LUIS, ERIC, InfoTrac, Internet); train and sponsor students on the morning show (CCTV)—a daily live broadcast; team leader of the electives; technology committee contact; up-date of print collection in support of curriculum areas and leisure reading; developer of and teacher of multi-media productions course for middle school students at RMS; facilitator for distance learning programs at RMS; Regional Director for Odyssey of the Mind; writer of distance learning grant (Project HEART) for the district homebound department and facilitator of this program for 1996-97.

Position: Language Arts Teacher

Primary Responsibilities: Instruction of gifted and advanced Language Arts for 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade students; yearbook sponsor; founder and sponsor of the Richbourg Review (newspaper); founder and sponsor of the RMS-TV Morning Show.

Position: Social Studies Teacher

Primary Responsibilities: Instruction of a wide range of social studies courses to 7th through 12th-graders (I was the Social Studies Department), including American history, World History, Economics, and Geography, Beta Club sponsor.

Position: Language Arts Teacher

Primary Responsibilities: Language Arts instruction, all levels (functional basic to advanced), 7th through 12th grades; cheerleader sponsor; Beta club sponsor; concession stand coordinator; basketball program coordinator; basketball scorekeeper.

Frequently serve as adjunct instructor and guest speaker in the departments of Curriculum & Instruction, Foundations & Technology, and Educational Leadership