Non Profit After School
Resume:
Key Skills
Organization
Adult & Team Leadership
Diversity Equity & Inclusiveness
Communication: Interpersonal, Written, Oral, Active Listening
Facilitation
Time-Management
Contact & Personal Information
Professional Opportunities & Experiences
Community
Advocacy & Empowerment
Partnered with schools, churches and non-profit organizations to establish resources for families enrolled in programs for victims of domestic violence
Wrote and executed programming for community-based literacy classes serving non-literate, employment-seeking adults
Created, directed and managed faith-based after-school tutoring program for 115+ students in grades K-6
Raised $9000.00+ for youth at risk of missing opportunity to attend a leading HBCU
Founder, 9000 Minutes; program built on adolescent brain development that meets students’ physiological needs for cognitive rest and organized play to increase mental stamina
Diversity
Equity
Inclusiveness
(DEI)
Connect organizational program aims to DEI foundations for incoming corps members of large non-profit education organization
Facilitate dialogical spaces around intersectionality of race, gender and class to build cultural competency and socio-political consciousness for proponents of education equity
Apply principals of adult learning considerations for the design and facilitation of DEI sessions
Integrate and align DEI foundations per specific staff roles
Construct consistent network of unwavering change-agent coalitions grounded in DEI-based foundations for education equity
Build educators’ abilities to navigate difficult conversations using effective dialogue skills such as PAIRS, trigger- and identity-mapping
Adult Management & Leadership
Instructional Coach: develop teacher-leaders using proven, evidence-based instruction and classroom management strategies
Lead teachers through five 30-day, progressive phases of management and rigor trajectory using Uncommon School’s, Get Better Faster coaching model
Through ongoing classroom observations, identify high-leveraging action steps to improve teacher development and increase student growth
Facilitate individual and team development conversations that prioritize practice perfect to mitigate classroom management challenges
Plan, lead and facilitate analysis of formative and summative assessment outcomes leaning in on below-mastery data to drive reteach plans
Guide teachers through steps of unpacking academic standards; identifying procedural and conceptual understandings; stamping student errors; plan reteach; script and practice
Embody and enact characteristics for vision of school leader that supports student academic and mindset growth
Augment professional relationships rooted in affirmations, transparency, and shared vision of excellence and equity for all students
Approach difficult conversations with fairness, professionalism and diplomacy
Successfully manage up to improve system integrity, human and capital resources efficiency, and fluid logistics
Cultural Competency
Positively triumphed over racial, gender and socio-economic biases, injustices and discriminatory practices experienced personally and professionally
Led students with unparalleled challenges to actualize academic growth and success
Diversity Equity and Inclusiveness Facilitator Training; The Collective; School Leaders of Color Conference attendee
Community engagement through philanthropical organizing and partnerships with the Center for Leadership Development, Teach For America, The Collective, Indy Inner City Chess, and Indy Black Chamber of Commerce
Schools & Organizations
Classroom Teacher
Paramount School of Excellence
Indianapolis Metropolitan High School
Phalen Leadership Academies
2011 -2018
Adult Leadership
Paramount School of Excellence, Phalen Leadership Academy, Kindezi Academy
2013 - 2019
Education Entrepreneur
9000 Minutes
2013 - 2019
Volunteer Organizer
Light of the World Christian Church
2018 - 2018
Military
United States Navy
1997 - 2005
Education
Educational Leadership
2018 – present
Marian University
Indianapolis, IN
Master of Arts Teaching
2011 – 2013
Marian University
Indianapolis, IN
Communication, BA
2008 – 2010
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Awards & Recognition
Teacher of the Year, Phalen Leadership Academies
2017-18
Educator of the Month/Quarter, Phalen Leadership Academies
2016, 2017
Sue Lehmann Nominee, Teach For America
2013
Teacher of the Month, Paramount School of Excellence
January 2012
March 2013
Parent Leader Award, Louisville Urban League
2011
Summa Cum Laude, University of Louisville
2010
Organizations & Associations
Teach For America, Alumna
National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Kentucky Education Association (branch of the National Education Association)
Indiana State Teachers Association
Professional & Personal References
Renee Wilson
Instructional Coach, Kindezi Academy
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Keith Thomas
Lead Teacher, Paramount School of Excellence
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JuDonne Hemingway
Director, Teacher Leader, Teach For America
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Camea Davis, PhD
Founder & Director, Indy Pulse
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Resheeda Butler
Base Supervisor, Republic Airways
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Toya D. Downs 317-***-**** Student / Educator / Emissary / Challenger / Nurturer / Builder
Preferred Name: TJai (tee-jay)
Louisville, Kentucky
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URL: ninethousandminutes.com
Professional Guarantee
Practitioner of diversity, equity, and inclusiveness to intentionally undergird a culturally responsive space that plans and practices perfect as a strategy towards the actualization and eradication of education inequities.
I am committed to love-centered, high-quality leading, teaching, and learning as a tool for equity within our local, national, and global communities.
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