Melanie Santana Santana **** Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 1

MELANIE SANTANA SANTANA

Educator • Arts Administrator

OVERVIEW

Innovative, experienced, and bilingual arts administrator leader with more than twenty years of administrative and academic experience. Strategically minded with strengths in program development, curricular design, financial stewardship and fundraising, community outreach, digital media communication, and the development-implementation of innovative local-international programs. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Education, ESL education • Music education at the community, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

• Innovative program development • Community and alumni relations

• Higher education • Arts administration • Private-public funding models • Creative direction

• Communications and marketing to raise the institution’s prestige

• Vision-casting • Maximizing others’ creative potential • Team-based/creative leadership CURRENT POSITION

World Language – Spanish Teacher – Certified (August 2020-to present) Thomas A. Edison High School (Philadelphia, PA)

Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish for Native Speakers, AP Spanish-Language and Culture, AP Spanish-Language and Literature (9

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Grant Writing, Research & Management (January 2022-to present) Ágora Cultural Architects (Boston, MA)

Research, draft, and proposal submissions that help organizations or individuals receive grant funding. Work with leaders in the organization to identify financial needs and ensure they reach their annual goals.

Science Teacher-bi-lingual teacher (October 2018-2020) Roberto Clemente Middle School (Philadelphia, PA)

General Science 6

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, 7

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and 8

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Appointed as Bilingual Elementary Teacher (K-8)

Teacher (January-October 2018)

Washington Irving Elementary School (Tarrytown, NY) Appointed as Building Substitute, 3rd to 5th grade English Language Arts, Math, Science, Spanish, English Language Learners. Assistant Professor (2013-2018)

Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Department of Music Education and General Studies Courses: Philosophy of Education, Sociology of Education, General Instructional, Methods, Technology in the Music Classroom, Teaching Music in the Elementary School, Student Teaching Practicum Seminar and Supervision, Current Trends in Melanie Santana Santana 5303 Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 2

Music Education Departmental Seminar, History of Western Music. Academic Advisor (2013-2018)

Academic and career advice of students of the Education Department. Grant Manager (1998-2018)

Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (San Juan, PR)

planning and implementing outcomes-oriented grant programs, preparing budgets, work plan monitoring, researching funding opportunities, supervising grant staff, monitoring expenditure, identifying support agencies, tracking results, and analyzing financial data. Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (1998-2014) San Juan, Puerto Rico Dean of Academic Affairs (2001 – 2014)

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (1998-2001)

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (1998-2014) San Juan, Puerto Rico Dean of Academic Affairs www.cmpr.edu Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (1998-2001)

● Executive over all academic and performance studies programs at one of the largest music conservatories in Latin America. The Conservatory was established in 1959 and operates as a publicly-funded corporation with its own Board of Directors. I report directly to the Chancellor of the Conservatory and present quarterly to the Board of Directors.

● Develop academic affairs office with revamped assessments of student learning, and course development and evaluation as part of the Institutional and Student Learning Assessment Plan started in 2008.

● Supervise financial planning –academic deanship- and monitor use of, the conservatory’s approximately $11.4 million annual budget.

● Create community outreach and collaborative arts programs including children’s music programs, monthly and Holiday community concerts, and international exchange programs with Venezuela, Perú, Colombia, and the United States of America schools of music, and conservatories.

● Oversee review process and ensure successful compliance of institutional accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Music, The Middle States Council for Higher Education and the Puerto Rico Council for Higher Education. Coordinate efforts to document needs assessments, and curriculum activities as well as host and respond to accreditation surveys.

● Recruit, supervise and evaluate a faculty of 90+ professors. During my tenure the student population grew from 200 to over 500 undergraduate and graduate students including a new Master’s degree program.

● Direct ongoing regular curricular assessment, beginning with a needs assessment and complete overhaul of existing academic programs in 1998-2000.

● Directed new program development efforts with, an expansion of career tracks in Music Education, new undergraduate and graduate programs in Jazz and Caribbean Music, Performance, and Conducting. A total of 14 new and accredited programs.

● Direct institutional concert and artistic programming, including guest artist negotiations. Expand program of Visiting Professors and Master classes and engage renowned US and international faculty to teach in our new Master’s degree program.

● Supervise the Office of Student Admissions and Recruitment, including the development and monitoring of cross-cultural institutional student recruitment activities, including an expansion of international recruiting initiatives in the Caribbean region and Central and South America. Melanie Santana Santana 5303 Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 3

● Represent the Conservatory in conferences and symposia in the US as well as Guatemala, Venezuela and the United States.

● Co-Chaired planning committee with diverse institutional and community stakeholders and funders to develop and implement the Conservatory’s 2010-2015 PRCM Strategic Plan. This was the third formal Strategic Planning process undergone by the Conservatory. Previous 2005-2010 Strategic Plan was accomplished in a 90%.

Selected Achievements

• Spearheaded 4 new degrees & programs, including Puerto Rico’s first Master of Music degree in Music Education, both a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma in Performance and a Graduate Diploma in Jazz & Caribbean Music performance. Designed of new Master of Music programs in Piano Pedagogy, Collaborative Piano, and Jazz & Caribbean Music Performance, as well as Bachelor of Music Degrees in Performance and Recording Arts, Music Business and Music Theater and Kodaly Certificate program (approved).

• Developed international exchange programs with institutions such as Columbia College

(Chicago), Berklee College of Music (Boston), Converse College (South Carolina), FESNOJIV

(Caracas, Venezuela), National Conservatory of Peru, Conservatorio de Tolima (Ibague, Colombia), Universidad Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Conservatorio Liceu

(Barcelona, Spain), among others.

• Created the centralized National System of Youth Orchestras and Choruses of Puerto Rico, in collaboration with and modeled after the world famous National System of Youth Orchestras and Choruses of Venezuela (“El Sistema”).

• Initiated, planned and completed – in collaboration with the Conservatory’s Provost & the Office of Development – a successful $3.5 million Capital Campaign which provided more than 100 new pianos and other equipment. This effort transformed the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music into an All-Steinway School.

• Created, in direct collaboration with the Provost and 12 major Puerto Rican arts organizations, arteSanturce, an arts alliance whose mission is to promote, develop and finance interdisciplinary arts projects throughout Santurce, the arts district of Puerto Rico’s capital. Our conservatory is located near the Museo de Puerto Rico and the Bellas Artes Performing Arts Center and arteSanturce helps leverage creative programming ideas to revitalize this area of San Juan. This included joint collaborations with the Municipal Arts Schools (Escuelas de Bellas Artes Municipales), and the Department of Education of Puerto Rico with its 29 schools of this district to incorporate the arts in the teaching of the basic areas. Education fairs for the community that included all arts organizations part of the arts alliance.

• Direct effort to digitize Conservatory’s library which included 70,000 volumes. Direct efforts to design and develop Conservatory’s website and continuously expand online presence of the Deanship and the PRCM in general.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Educational Programs Director (1996-1998)

Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) San Juan, Puerto Rico Developed and coordinated the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Family and Education concert series performances in collaboration Melanie Santana Santana 5303 Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 4

with Maestro Roselín Pabón.

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico (1997-2000) Bayamón, Puerto Rico Adjunct Professor Served as a lecturer of Music Appreciation at the Liberal Arts Department. Coordinator of the Youth Symphony Orchestra Program San Juan, Puerto Rico (YSOP) (1995- 1996)

Director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra Program San Juan, Puerto Rico (YSOP) (1996- 1998)

This program was modeled after Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ and brings music education to five public housing projects in Puerto Rico. I started as faculty at one YSOP site (“Villa España”) where I taught courses in theory, ear-training/aural skills and served as accompanist. Within a year, I was promoted to Director of the site, where I managed personnel and developed and coordinated the curriculum and performance activities including. In 1996, I was promoted to Direct the entire Program, coordinating all educational, performance and administration areas; including a $1.5 million budget. This included activities such as approving and evaluating curricula in all instruments of the orchestra, national concerts, and parent and community relations.

Teacher- Music San Juan, Puerto Rico Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral School (1994-1996) General Music (K-12)

Education

Holy Family University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Master of Arts (June 2021)

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) New York University

New York, New York

Master of Arts Summa cum laude (May 1994)

Music Education

Thesis: Multicultural education: an annotated bibliography (1994) Cognate in Higher Education

Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music

Bachelor of Music in Music Education Magna cum laude (June 1992) Piano

University of Puerto Rico

Río Piedras Campus

Credits toward Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences/Pre-medicine (August 1987-Spring 1989) Certificates

Pennsylvania Department of Education

TESOL (In progress) – December 2023 (expected)

Melanie Santana Santana 5303 Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 5

Pennsylvania Department of Education - Instructional II Music (7205) Pk-12, Effective date - 07/01/2019

Pennsylvania Department of Education - Instructional II Spanish (4490) Pk-12, Effective date - 03/01/2020

Suzuki Association of the Americas

Suzuki methodology certification I & II, PIANO

Zoltan Kodály Methodology

Certificate in Kodály methodology Level I & II.

Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Sáenz Peña, Buenos Aires, ARG) Certificate Instrumentos Autóctonos, Música y Nuevas Tecnologías (2010) Community Service

ArCoNet Board of Trustees, President (2020 to present) Non-for profit organization

ArCoNet Board of Trustees Member (2019-2020)

Non-for profit organization

Volunteer (August 2017)

Music education at Colegio San Gabriel (K-12). Specialized school for hearing impaired students. Other Committees Experience

Curriculum, Accreditation (Academic Programs, General Education, Graduate Education, Assessment of Learning Outcomes, Institutional Assessment, Learning Resources, Non-Degree Programs, Academic Senate (Dean & Senate Secretary), Admissions, Strategic Planning, Total Quality Management-Lean Six- Sigma, Search Committees, Scholarships and Academic Progress, Accreditation Steering Committee, Policies and Regulations (academic and students), and Activities and Concerts. Ad-hoc

Member of the Academic Committee Board of Trustees of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music Professional Associations

National Association of Schools of Music

College Music Society

Pi Kappa Lambda

Suzuki Association of the Americas

Languages

Spanish- native language

English – advanced level

Melanie Santana Santana 5303 Avenel Blvd, North Wales, PA 19454 787-***-**** ad23hc@r.postjobfree.com 6

Computer and software

Microsoft Suite: WORD, PowerPoint, Excel, Access

Prezi

Music Software: Finale, Band-in-a-Box

SPSS (basic knowledge)

Google Suite

Others

Expertise in working with Visa O & P for non-immigrant workers with exceptional talents in the arts, and education.

Working knowledge of Visa I-20

FERPA (Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act) training CONTACT

Melanie Santana-Santana

5303 Avenel Boulevard

North Wales, PA 19454

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