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Brett W. Bennett

Phone: 928-***-****• E-Mail: adra8e@r.postjobfree.com (email is best)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy, Prescott, Arizona High School English Teacher July 2021 to present

• Teach ELA for the freshman class and the senior class

• Crew leader for camping and expeditions

BASIS School Network

History and English classes grade school and middle school

• July 2019 to July 2021 BASIS International School Bangkok, History (World, Classics, Grade 4 History) and ELA (Grade 5-6 ELA).

• July 2016 to July 2019 BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, History classes (World and U.S.); Assistant Coach for varsity volleyball teams.

Learn English Through Conversation (LETC), Muang Loei, Loei Province, Thailand Full time English Teacher, Grades 3-5 at Sangtawan Pattana School December 2014 to June 2016. • Create lessons and deliver content to six classes of students from grade 3-5, two classes at each grade. U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. Program Analyst, Criminal Division, International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), February 2013 to November 2014.

• Manage fund sites, task orders, and travel authorizations for ICITAP law enforcement development programs in the Latin America/Caribbean region.

• Anticipate staffing and funding needs; work with foreign counterparts.

• Top Secret security clearance.

American Red Cross, Hurricane Sandy Disaster Response Deployments Client Caseworker and Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) Driver, November-January, 2012-13.

• Counseled and provided financial assistance to clients displaced from their homes. 12/2012- 1/2013.

• Drove the ERV on Staten Island; delivered hot meals, water, clean up kits, and blankets to people in damaged neighborhoods and at fixed feeding cites. (11/3/12-11/26/12). The Peace Law Academy, Mae Sot, Thailand

Administrator, instructor of legal writing, international law, and English, September 2011 March 2011; research volunteer after moving back to the U.S.A.

• Managed and sought funding; wrote donor reports and funding proposals.

• Created and scheduled curriculum for a small law school; taught classes.

• Planned activities, sports, guest speakers for the students. Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

English Teacher, Faculty of Humanities, May 2011 to September 2011

• Taught freshman English classes along with a second year class about reading and writing effectively.

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U.S. Peace Corps, Loei, Thailand

Volunteer in the Teacher Collaboration and Community Outreach Program (TCCO), January 2009 to April 2011

• Trained Thai teachers to use participatory learning methods and plan lessons.

• Learned to speak Thai; learned basic reading and writing of Thai.

• Implemented recycling programs in my community.

• Worked with other Peace Corps Volunteers to run and/or participate in many English camps, camps about HIV awareness, and Boy Scout camps.

• Coached the girls volleyball team at Ban That Wittaya after school; won two regional tournaments.

• Worked with community members and students to paint two large-scale maps at my schools. We painted a map of Asia at the grade school and a world map at the high school. CTB/McGraw-Hill Publishing, Monterey, CA

Off-site Content Editor, January 2007 to January 2009

• Edited and produced educational and assessment materials for use in classrooms in various states. Wittwer & Parkin, LLP, Santa Cruz, CA

Associate Attorney, April 2006 to February 2008 (Supervisor: Jonathan Wittwer, Senior Attorney)

• Appeared in court for motions and to prosecute misdemeanors for City of Saratoga.

• Appeared before Planning Commissions of Santa Cruz and Capitola to advocate for clients. EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT. J.D. awarded May 2004; member of the California State Bar Association (SBN:236195)

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. M.A. in U.S. History awarded May 1995 Reed College, Portland, OR. B.A. History awarded May 1992 Credentialed teacher in California in Social Sciences, ELA, and World Language Learners (ESL)

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