Brian O’Quin Dawson

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Belton, TX 76513

512-***-**** (cell/personal)

adrpf8@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Concordia University

Ed. D., Educational Leadership – August 2019

Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

M.Ed., Educational Administration – May 2002

The University of Texas at Austin, Texas

B.S, Applied Learning and Development – August 1997

Professional Goal:

To consistently seek to learn and utilize my knowledge and leadership skills to encourage and promote innovative ideas to advance instructional and educational practices for any learning community I serve, as well as build capacity in all I serve. I want to serve in a learning organization that believes that all students can learn and believe it is our ethical responsibility to do whatever it takes to allow all learners to reach their personal and maximum potential.

Career Pathway:

Area Executive Director

to Support Teaching and Learning

- 4 Years

Adjunct Profession for Teacher Preparation

- 7 Years

Campus Principal

- 14 Years

Campus Assistant Principal

- 4 Years

Classroom Teacher

- 3 Years Public Education

- 3 Years Private Education

Education Consulting

- 20+ Years

Youth Ministry Work

- 20 Years

Experience

Educational Leadership

Pflugerville ISD July 2018 – Current

Area Executive Director to Support Teaching and Learning:

●Support and oversee a learning community that includes 10 campuses (1 high school, 2 middle schools, and 7 elementary schools).

●Collaborate and support the building of 3 new campuses (2 elementary and 1 middle school)

●Provide personalize support to campuses and build stronger learning communities

●Provide support and intentional coaching to all campus principals in the learning community.

●Oversee the implementation, alignment, and timing of all curricular functions within the respective campus group learning community.

●Provide managerial and curricular support for the campus principals within the respective campus group learning community to ensure a rigorous and equal opportunity education for students while maintaining a safe and fair working environment for staff members.

Special Knowledge/Skills:

●Knowledge of Federal, State, and local laws and Board policy in the area of education, curriculum, school finance, budgeting, accounting, auditing, data processing management systems related to public school districts

●Knowledge of multiple campus operations on a large-scale basis

●Knowledge of rigorous and aligned curriculum in an educational system that is functioning within and responsive to high stakes testing and accountability systems

●Knowledge of the core curriculum content areas: math, science, language arts, social studies and other special education content areas and testing and assessments

●Visionary leadership ability in public schools to work with diverse students, staff, families, and communities and communicate with and supervise professional and support personnel

●Skill in using data-driven decision making to determine effectiveness of various programs and initiatives and develop strategies for improvement

●Skill in short- and long-term master strategic planning

●Skill in working collaboratively and cooperatively with others across a complex organization with numerous stakeholders and facilitating groups to consensus

●Skill in gathering/organizing/analyzing/interpreting data, utilizing various statistical techniques, applying concepts to assist in formulating conclusions and developing recommendations and solutions

●Skill in managing staff, team building, operations, projects, and budgets on a large scale

●Skill in troubleshooting issues, making sound judgment, decisions, and recommendations

●Skill in presenting information in a variety of formats

●Skill in maintaining confidentiality of privileged and sensitive information

Georgetown ISD July 2000– July 2018

Principal, Tippit Middle School – February 2011-July 2018

●Supervision of campus leadership team and instructional staff to provide leadership opportunities, professional development, and coordination of campus programs to meet learner needs.

●Facilitation of state and district discipline systems, providing guidance through research and consultation, providing expectations in development of campus expectations to adhere with Texas Education Code.

●The campus (in less than a year’s time) had decreased serious behavior infractions by 40%-not using a punitive measure, but by initiating and embracing Positive Behavior Supports. Tippit went from having the worst discipline challenges in the district secondary campuses to decreasing the serious discipline infractions in less than a year by more than 40%. Establishing and maintaining a culture of continuous learning and improvement

●Tippit went from not meeting AYP 2 years in a row and entering a school improvement plan (SIP) to making so much academic progress that our campus was highlighted at the administrator retreat. Tippit went from a campus in crisis to a campus that was making significant positive impacts on student learning.

●The campus has been spotlighted by ‘No Place for Hate’ and our staff have been asked to lead informational training at their state level conventions. Tippit was also spotlighted for their approach to positive behavior supports and efforts to implement restorative justice.

●Supervision of federal programs for the campus, including planning, needs assessment, budgeting, approval of expenditures, auditing functions, justification, and coordination with all funding sources and campus budgets, as well as training and support for peers. Supervision of Bilingual/ESL programs to provide coordination and direction for campus model and support, as well as district level planning, development of staff and programs, district strategic goal and defined learner outcomes

●Hiring and supervising teachers and other campus personnel that best fit the profile established by site-based leadership team and identified program needs

●Participating in campus reconstruction – 3-year construction project

●Recipient of KLE Grant to implement a blended learning model on Tippit Campus

●Tippit Middle School chosen as a ‘Raise Your Hand Texas Blended Learning Showcase Campus’

●Collaboration as campus principal with all levels of district leadership in administrative functional areas to organize systems and facilitate campus functions that directly align with district goals and non-negotiables.

●Collaboration and Facilitation of secondary Curriculum and Instruction development, scope and sequence, teaching and learning focus.

●During the TEA audit our campus was highlighted for support of struggling students, support of English Language Learners, Use of Response to Intervention, data collection and appropriate utilization to guide student/learner-centered instruction. Campus selected as GISD highlight campus for data driven processes and continuous improvement results. GISD model campus site, utilized for instructional leadership development and PLC initiatives embedded into school processes and functions.

●Co-Lead District Aspiring Principal Academy

●Participant in District Blended Learning Steering Committee

Principal, Annie Purl Elementary School

●As principal of this campus, policies, procedures and expectations had to be established and consistently enforced. The campus learned how and began to function with a common vision, mission, and established goals.

●There was a common understanding of what student success looked like. There was a common theme of NO EXCUSES that permeated throughout the campus. No excuse was good enough to justify why a student was not experiencing success.

●Within the first 3 years of being there, a common approach and established non-negotiables were not only being implemented, they created a campus culture that not only influenced the campus, but the students and our community. By year 4, the campus went from making scores that were unacceptable or marginally acceptable on standardized testing to making scores that were comparable to the scores being made by campuses with student demographics with much higher social economic status.

●The Purl campus began to have visitors from other districts in order to see what we were doing in order to have such monumental changes. Purl was invited to speak many times at the Regional Service Center.

●I was asked to personally present numerous times about our campus, our implementation of Response to Interventions, and our service and support for all learners – the struggling student and the advanced student. Our campus was often highlighted in district meetings and in district school trustee meetings. Our campus went from being... “that campus” to “how can I get my child in at your school?”

Assistant Principal, Tippit Middle School

●At the end of the first year that I served as the assistant principal, our discipline infractions for serious offenses went down more than 80%.

●Our students’ academic successes were directly and positively affected.

●Through the implementation of positive student acknowledgement programs, academic pep rallies, and student led advisory meetings, our campus went from a struggling campus to a very successful campus.

●Students who had never passed the state standardized assessments were not only passing them but passed them with significantly high scores.

●Students gained agency in their learning and many of the students that I had as an assistant principal have intentionally sought me out to let me know of their successes in college and life.

Classroom Teaching Experience

1st and 5th Grades

English/Language Arts and Reading at secondary level; All content areas at elementary level

Pflugerville ISD, 1997-2000

●Instructional team leader

●Gifted and Talented grade level coordinator

●Department head for English/Language Arts

●Grade level Intervention Lead

●Campus staff development co-coordinator in Pflugerville ISD

●Superintendent Advisory Committee member

●Trainer of trainers for PDAS, Cooperative Learning Institute, and Positive Behavior Supports and Interventions

●Gifted and Talented district staff development trainer

●Model Classroom in Pflugerville ISD

●Participated in district planning and delivery of literacy professional learning and development in Pflugerville ISD

●Literacy and RTI trainer for our local Regional Educational Service Center

Other Employment

Huston-Tillotson University,

Austin, Texas

2013 - 2019

Adjunct Professor, Teacher Pre-service Preparation and Alternative Certification

Consulting,

Independent Educational

Leadership and Instruction

1999 – Present

Austin, Texas Area

Region XIII, Educational Resource/ Service Center Southwestern University

Concordia University, Local School Districts, Miami, Indianapolis, San Francisco, San Antonio, Washington D.C., Montréal, Canada

Walnut Creek Baptist Church,

Austin, Texas

Interim Music Minister - 1996 (11 months)

Youth Pastor - 1997 - 2000

Children's Choir Director - 1991-1997

First Baptist Church,

Georgetown, Texas

2001 - 2020

7th Grade Lead Youth Minister (Volunteer)

Ordained Deacon

Interim Teaching Pastor (2013 May - August)

-interim pastor for contemporary service while in between pastors

Professional Tutoring Services

(Private provider)

1997-2009 (12 years)

Fellowships/Grants

●Innovative Leadership-Grant Award: $30,000

●Texas PTA Educational Recognition Award

●HEB Excellence in Education Central Texas Secondary Principal of the Year, 2014.

Top 5 Finalist for the state of Texas 2014

●Texas Education Agency Capital Investment Restructure Grant: $50,000

●Recipient of the Raise Your Hand Texas Fellowship to attend the Harvard University Principal Institute - July 2017

●Tippit Middle School named a ‘Texas Showcase Campus for Blended Learning’ by Raising Blended Learning – Raise Your Hand Texas in 2017

Publications

●Positive Behavior Supports and their effect on Academic Success, 2000; Master’s Thesis

●AERA Abstract:

“Positive Behavior Supports and their effect on Academic Success”, April 2005

●Linked to Leadership: Online Leadership Magazine

“It's ok to make a mistake: learning to change and learn through our mistakes”

Professional Affiliations

●AASA National Principal Supervisor Academy

●Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)

●Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

●Phi Delta Kappa (PDK)

●Texas Association of Secondary School Principals (TASSP)

●Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA)

●Region XIII Professional Learning Community Institute

●The Schlechty Center - Design Coaching Training - Level 2 certification

Personal

●Married to Amy Dawson

●Father to Hannah, 22 and Ty, 13

●Enjoy family time, fishing, snow skiing, camping, and hiking

Professional Licensure / Certifications

●Principal

04/01/2014 - 03/31/2026

Grades (EC-12) - PROVISIONAL

●Elementary English

12/04/1997 - Life

●Grades (1-8)

Elementary Self-Contained

12/04/1997 – Life

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