Project Manager Special Education
Resume:
Tracie Prichard
Apartment 1031
Columbia, SC 29464
abg7hn@r.postjobfree.com
Objective
To improve education by combining instructional strategies and formative
assessment tools with effective decision-making, improved communication,
and positive support for teachers.
Education
University of South Carolina. Ph.D. pending. Major: Education Leadership
and Instruction and Special Education Administration. Minor: Curriculum.
Tennessee Technological University. M.A. Major: Learning Disabilities.
Minor: Special Education.
Tennessee Technological University. B.S. Major: English - Secondary
Education. Minor: Speech
Experience
Education Consultant and Diagnostician 1999 - present
Special Education Teacher 1985 - 1999, 2001 - present
Supervisor of Instruction/Academic Dean 2000 - 2001
Curriculum Coordinator 1999 - 2000
Specialized Knowledge
Special education, policies, procedures and law
Student assessments and education plan development
ADEPT Evaluator
Special education trainer of administrators/general educators
Curriculum design and development
Technology
Writing, editing, and preparing copy for websites
Handbooks/Manuals/Research
Phenomenological Descriptions of Instructional Assessments; Examining
Classroom Communication in the Areas of Dialogue, Reflection, and
Critical Thinking in Title One Middle Schools. (Current working title,
April 2011).
Are We Adequately Preparing Students with Learning Disabilities to
Reenter the General Education Classroom? A Closer Look. (2007).
The Effects of Using a Balanced Literary Approach with Students
Diagnosed with Learning Disabilities. (2003).
Quick and Easy Special Education: The Guide for Administrators and
General Educators. (2000).
Comparing Classroom Cultures of General and Resource Language-Arts
Classes for Students with Learning Disabilities. (1999).
Writing Rangers: Breaking Through the Barriers of Learning. (1998).
Diminishing Disruptive Behaviors in a Child Diagnosed with ADHD. (1996).
Positive Parenting Manual for Parents of Children with Special Needs.
(1993).
Positive Parenting Manual. (1992).
Presentations
Quick and Easy Special Education: Training for Administrators and
General Educators. Manatee County School District, Sarasota County
School District, and Hillsborough County School District. (1999 - 2000).
Writing Rangers: Breaking Through the Barriers of Learning.
International Learning Disabilities Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
(1999).
Writing Rangers: Breaking Through the Barriers of Learning. South
Carolina Council for Exceptional Children Conference, Charlotte, North
Carolina. (November 1998).
Positive Parenting Manual for Parents of Children with Special Needs.
Columbia, South Carolina, (1993 - 1994).
Positive Parenting Classes, Columbia, South Carolina. (1992 - 1994).
Grants
Newborn's In Need: School to Work Transition. Hanahan, South Carolina.
(1993, 1994).
Allowing and Creating Everyone's Success (ACES). Swansea and Columbia,
South Carolina. (1994, 2010).
Students Against Drunk Driving and Organization of Just Say No Clown
Troupes, Spencer and Maryville, Tennessee. (1984, 1988, 1989)
Professional Involvement
Academic Booster Club Board Member. Moncks, Corner, South Carolina.
(2007 -2009).
Learning to Lead. Berkeley County School District Leadership Program,
Moncks Corner, South Carolina. (2008).
Using Thinking Maps in the Classroom. Berkeley County School District,
Moncks Corner, South Carolina. (2008).
ADEPT Evaluator. Berkeley County School District, Goose Creek, South
Carolina. (2004 - 2008).
Principals Task Force. Hanahan, South Carolina. (2004 - 2005).
Newborns-in-Need Project Manager. Hanahan, South Carolina. (2002 -
2005).
Digital Imaging. Charleston, South Carolina. (2004).
SACS Evaluation Committee. Aiken and Hanahan, South Carolina. (1997,
2003).
Low Country Writing Project. Charleston, South Carolina. (2002 - 2005).
Special Education Department Chair. Gaston, South Carolina, Aiken, South
Carolina. (1993 - 1999).
Junior and Senior Class Sponsor. Spencer, Tennessee. (1986 - 1988).
Affiliations/Memberships
South Carolina Association School Administrators (1998 - present).
Council of Special Education Administrators (1998 - present).
Tennessee Administrator Council for Special Education (1998 - present).
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). (1997 -
present).
Council for Exceptional Children (1996 - present).
Delta Kappa Gamma (1985 - present).
Pi Lambda Theta (1985 - present).
Kappa Delta (1985- present)
National Education Association (1983 - 1995)
Teaching
-Special Education
Resource and Self-Contained Classes
English, Math and Reading
Science
American Government
Transition and Job Skills
-Disabilities
Learning Disabilities
Emotional Disabilities
Mild and Moderate Mental Disabilities
ADHD with sub areas ODD, CAPD, OCD
Autism
Student Achievement Data
-While teaching high school, 73% of my resource students and 68% of my
self-contained students passed the English and math sections of the HSAP
Exit Exam.
-While teaching elementary, middle, and high school, 92% of my students
progressed a minimum of one to five grade levels in reading and English
each year based on normative and criterion based testing.
-While teaching all grade levels, 88% of my students progressed a
minimum of one grade level in math every year based on normative and
criterion state testing.
Community Involvement
-Special Olympics
-Sign Language
-Newborns-In Need Charity
-Boys and Girls Club
-Jaycees
-Safe Space
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