JENNIFER THURBER KOHL

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EXPERIENCE

**** – 2007

READING EDITOR, houghton Mifflin (harcourt) Company

Worked collaboratively with writers and editorial teams inside the company, and vendors outside the company, as well as with design and production to meet deadlines and make high quality books for Grades Pre-K to 6 customers in various states.

Edited different Reading Programs. For example: Science Support Readers, Vocabulary Readers (with Irene Fountas), and EL for Social Studies (Houghton Mifflin History-Social Science Access for English Learners).

Edited teacher and student editions, as well as online support materials and art.

Proofread the Reading Department’s Style Guide.

Attended conferences on guided reading and writing to pass on information to improve our teachers’ and students’ editions: 1. Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading: Teaching Readers to Comprehend Within, Beyond and About the Text. (Lesley University) 2. Bonnie Singer, PhD’s writing method EmPOWER TM(Evaluate the Assignment, Make a Plan, Organize, Write, Evaluate, Re-write) which can be used for every student and every educator and every expository writing assignment from the elementary grades throughout college.

2003 – 2004

PROOFREADER, houghton Mifflin (harcourt) Company

Proofread a variety of student products in different K2 to Grade 6 disciplines, such as Math, Reading, and Science to make quality books within production deadlines.

Proofread the Everyday Math student editions.

Proofread Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts content (Before and After Reading Questions for The Call of the Wild, for example) on the website, Education Place: www.eduplace.com

2001 – 2003; 2004

WRITING TUTOR, fisher college

Assisted students in all aspects of the expository writing process.

Helped with reading comprehension, critical analyses, research papers, speeches, ESL assignments, psychology, resumes, and college essays.

2001 – 2002

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, boston university

Proofread Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics articles.

Met production deadlines, and worked with the managing editor and work-study students to produce a quality book.

Managed a comprehensive database of 800 subscribers.

Processed subscriptions, and kept and maintained detailed records and subscriber information.

Recorded, acknowledged, and processed submissions, and communicated and resolved problems for authors, subscribers, and all customers.

Obtained cover art for Arion.

Supervised and trained work-study students to complete projects accurately and on deadline.

Researched and found extensive archival materials to contribute to the editor-in-chief’s confidential film projects.

Coordinated and planned international travel for the editor-in-chief.

2001

SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, MuriEl Sutherland snowden international school

Briefly substitute taught at this Boston Public High School in English, Science, and Language Class.

2001

WRITER AND EDITOR, mazer digital media

Rewrote grammar exercise instructions, making 5,491 interactive exercises from Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar: Communication in Action, grades 6-12. Worked in a team of writers, editors, graphic and web designers, production staff, and testers.

Edited instructions, Excel templates, and XML; tested interactive grammar exercises.

1998 – 2001

ESL INSTRUCTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR, vietnamese-american

civic association

Taught basic English, Vocational ESL, and computer skills to recently arrived Vietnamese and Haitian (adult) refugees and immigrants.

Wrote ESL curricula and contributed to ESL program design.

Evaluated and placed new students in the ESL program, using the BEST (Basic English Skills Test).

Started up the Structured Job Search program. Wrote and implemented a pre-employment curriculum.

Conducted pre-employment workshops that focused on the cultural and communicative aspects of American workplaces.

Created instructional and evaluative materials.

Helped clients overcome academic, personal, and employment-related obstacles by problem-solving with them, as well as with case managers, other teachers, and job developers.

Monitored the successes and challenges of the Structured Job Search and Massachusetts Refuge and Resettlement programs by gathering data and writing qualitative and quantitative monthly and quarterly reports to funders.

Solved administrative problems and improved the case management system in tandem with the Department of Transitional Assistance and the Office of Refugees and Immigrants.

1998 – 2001

POETRY READER, Ploughshares

Read, screened, and passed on quality poetry to editors of this poetry and fiction journal.

EDUCATION

1998

MFA, CREATIVE WRITING AND LITERATURE, Emerson college

1994

BA, ENGLISH/FRENCH, University of new hampshire

1992-1993

FLUENT IN FRENCH, university of burgandy

2000

PROOFREADING, cambridge center for adult education

SKILLS

Editing

Proofreading

Publishing

Teaching (Adult ESL and Job Readiness) and Substitute Teaching (BPS, high school and Catholic Elementary)

Writing Tutor

ESL

Libraries: Circulation and Information Services

French

Poetry: reading, writing, publications, workshops, and events

Customer Service

Retail, business, administrative assistant

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

My library experiences were at the Emerson College Library (Interlibrary Loan and Information Services), the French Library and Cultural Center (administrative assistant), and The Boston Public Library (Copley) in Circulation. They do not fit on the resume, or seem very relevant, but I am happy to speak about them. The business experience was updating databases and general work concerning Mass Health at The Public Consulting Group in Downtown Crossing. The retail experience was a retailer in Coolidge Corner; LL Bean Canadian and International Customer Services in Lewiston and Portland, Maine; LL Bean retail store in Freeport, Maine (3rd shift); Macy’s Department Store in South Portland, Maine and Newington, New Hampshire; Rich’s department store in Falmouth, Maine; Calvin Klein Outlet Store in Freeport, Maine; and The Village Square Mall in Freeport, Maine. I also worked as a teenager at Day’s Crabmeat and Lobster in Freeport, Maine—picking crabmeat. I’ve been formally working since I was 14 years old (with a work permit, of course!).

ACTIVITIES

I currently love to read, walk, swim, ski, volunteer, watch Netflix and news, and (most of all) spend time with my husband, kids, family, and friends.

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