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Resume:
Laura Lee-Walrond
Email: *********@********.***
Address: ***** ** ***** *****
City: Kent
State: WA
Zip: 98031
Country: USA
Phone: 207-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $80,000
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
Laura Lee-Walrond
11609 SE 193rd Place 206-***-**** Cell
Kent WA, 98031 253-***-**** Home
Target Learning Leadership position supporting literacy development in high needs schools.
Experience
Highline School District
2010 current Site Based Specialist - Literacy: Chinook Middle School
Chinook has an extremely diverse population w/ at least 20 languages, 55% multi-lingual, 75% free & reduced, 48 to 52% meeting standard in Reading. 2009 designated chronically underperforming by USDE which led me to apply for this position.
Coach 8 teachers in Balanced Literacy structures, Readers Workshop approach, and Reading Intervention methodology.
Train 6 of 8 LA teachers & para-educators to use Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessments to inform leveled, small group reading instruction.
Train para-educators to administer the Words Their Way inventory and teach the lessons indicated by results.
Train whole staff in regarding non-fiction writing strategies for content area classes and consultations for using leveled texts for content instruction.
Facilitate District writing, revision and implementation for CCS based Literacy Frameworks.
2004 2010 Literacy Coach: Pacific Middle School
Pacific is a culturally, linguistically and economically diverse school with 33 to 40% of students not meeting standard in Reading or Writing. In my tenure I
Designed and implemented professional development for whole staff
including: standards based teaching, backwards design, & accountable talk.
Trained Departments (small group): GLEs; balanced literacy
content ( metacognative reading behaviors, classroom structures) and instructional strategies (read aloud, shared reading, accountable talk, conferring and other workshop elements), and Looking at Student Work processes and planning based upon student data.
Coached 9 individual teachers toward rigorous Reading Workshop Implementation
including ELL, Sp. Ed. and mainstream Language Arts teachers
2002 - 2004 Literacy Coach: Tyee High School
Tyee is a culturally, linguistically and economically diverse school where 75% of the new Freshman in fall 2004 were below grade level in reading 52% 2 years or more below level. Tyee is converted from one large to three small high schools. I:
Designed and implemented professional development for whole staff
including: conditions for learning, purposeful teaching & backwards design.
Trained Literacy Department (small group): GLEs; balanced literacy
content ( metacognative reading behaviors, classroom structures) and instructional strategies (read aloud, shared reading, accountable talk, conferring and other workshop elements).
Coached 9 individual teachers toward Reading Workshop Implementation
including ELL, Sp. Ed. and mainstream Language Arts teachers
Renton School district
1998 2002 Language Arts Teacher: Lindbergh High School
Taught Freshman, Junior and Senior English as well as Creative Writing.
Implemented literature circles for Freshman English beyond the two shared
novels in use prior to 1999 - secured grant money for leveled books.
Coordinated University of Washington T.E.P. & was a Cooperating
Teacher
Served on the Burien ESD Reading Leadership Cadre 2000-2002
Represented staff during new principal selection process
Lake Washington School District
1991-1998 LA / SS Teacher: Inglewood Junior High
Located in one of the top five average income zip codes in the state with high parent involvement.
Taught Language Arts with US History, technology and Creative Writing.
Differentiated instruction to accommodate honors, and profoundly disabled
in the same class.
Coordinated REACH (Respecting Ethnic and Cultural Heritage) for 8th grade
Achieved Information Navigator status within district technology program. Served as lead author for Inglewoods successful Blue Ribbon Schools application.
Served as district resource person for assessment based upon OSPI
training for aligning classroom assessment and state EALRs
Coordinated Natural Helpers.
Paper Trail
November 2001 renewed: 2010 National Board of Professional Teaching Standards
Adolescent / Young Adult English Language Arts certified
August 1994 City University: Morrisay cadre
Master of Education: Curriculum and Instruction
Presidential Honors awarded
June 1990 California State University, Hayward, CA
Bachelor of Arts: Liberal Studies with Honors.
Expires 2013
Washington State Continuing Certificate
Endorsements: English / Language Arts; Geography; History; K-8
Celebrations
2011 Helped Lead Chinook M.S. out of the lowest 5% in WA for the first time in 10 yrs & Chinook won a Washington State Achievement Award.
2006 Washington State Literacy Leadership Cadre
2005-07 SPU adjunct faculty: Implementing Readers Workshop in Secondary LA; City U online instructor for Literacy Masters and Literacy in Mathematics.
2002 Ahead of the Class: Renton Chamber of Commerce educator
Network
Joanna Michelson (HSD Literacy SBS coordinator) **********@*******.*** 206-***-****
Mark Demick (Chinook Principal) ****.******@***************.*** 206-***-****
Robyn Wiens (Chinook A.P.)*****.*****@***************.*** 206-***-****
Cecilia Beaman (Pacific M.S. Principal)*******.******@***************.*** 206-***-****
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