Marshall Franklin Medrano
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
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OBJECTIVE
To collaborate within a school-based student services team where I can work to guide students developmentally and educationally.
Focusing on their future, to assist them in the best suited preparatory investment. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Extensive experience in student assistance programming, restorative practice trainer, mediator using restorative practices, test coordinator for state examinations, created scheduling scenarios to advance a student’s standing in order to meet promotion and graduation criteria. Additionally, performed as a behavior specialist, conducted student groups focusing on grief, gang violence and bullying. Possess extensive experience in parent, community involvement resulting in partnership development. Coordinated Title I and Middle States evaluations as a member of the school administrative cabinet.
EDUCATION
Masters in Counseling in Education
Duquesne University
Graduation: December, 2006
Bachelors of Science in Education
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Minor: Vocal Performance
Graduation: May, 2003
Degree in Mortuary Arts and Sciences
Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science
Graduation: February, 1985
WORK EXPERIENCE
Summer Dreamers, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania June, 2016- Present
• Member of the Camp Leadership Team (CLT), Behavioral Specialist for Campers specifically counsel campers through Restorative Practices, assist campers in developing behavioral strategies that would prepare them to meet social and academic needs, prepare excel spreadsheets for camper Behavioral Referrals.
ASCI Achievers Hybrid Hub, As Second Chance, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September, 2020-June 2021
Site Coordinator facilitating homework help and tutoring during Covid-19 Closure.
Student Services Assistant, Pittsburgh Board of Education, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
October, 1996-Present
• Implement the behavior policy set by school administrator
• Provide support for the counseling staff
• Support the educational program set by school administrator
• Restorative Practices Trainer
• Student Assistance Program (SAP) Team Member
• Conduct mediation through Restorative Practices methods
• Implement prevention and intervention strategies for bullying packets, Clayton Academy, and Student Achievement Center
• Transportation Coordinator: one of my many duties I have had the pleasure of was transportation coordinator for the following schools: Allegheny Traditional Academy 6-8, Sterrett Classical Academy, Dilworth Elementary, and Miller African- Centered Academy. My duties included: arranging transportation, receiving bus referrals and creating an action plan for those students that received bus referrals, coordinating transportation in collaboration with the Transportation Department and Special Education Department.
• Testing Coordinator – meeting the standards of Pittsburgh Public Schools and the State of Pennsylvania, creating an action plan that test administrators implement, completing the required paperwork for the school district and the state of Pennsylvania, creating a journal that would be kept for 3 years for the state assessment coordinators to review.
• After-School Enrichment Coordinator at Allegheny Traditional Middle School, Sterrett Classical Academy, and Faison Elementary School – Tutoring program that would give students additional academic assistance. My duties were to create a weekly schedule of classes, prepare payroll, create a permission slip to parents for student to participate. Organist/Director, Warren United Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October, 1996-2008
• Prepare the choir for morning worship ministry in music, prepare hymns for morning worship service, maintain the proper order of scared music with the United Methodist liturgy.
Vocal Coach, An American Dream, Los Angeles, California April, 1992-December 1992
• Trained actor/actress in all musical aspects of the Jackson Five production, supervise musical aspects during filming, set schedules for rehearsals with the music team, cast as an extra specific during musical segments of the movie
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Dean’s List throughout my Bachelor’s Degree
Vice President of Academic Affairs: James C. Holmberg, PhD. Reader’s Digest Scholarship Recipient
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1984 Outstanding Young Men of America
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh house choir for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Robert Page, Director
Pittsburgh Opera
Member of Chi Sigma Iota – Counseling Fraternity
Professional Certificate Educational Specialist I Elementary and Secondary School Counselor PK-12
International Institute for Restorative Practice: Licensed Trainer, Pittsburgh Public Schools
Licensed Funeral Director