School District Salt Lake

Laurie Perry

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Chandler, Az 85226 435-***-****

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EDUCATION and Utah experience (general)

University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah B.A. 1988 English/Child Drama (Taught at U of U after school drama program, 1st grade class. Improvisation teacher and administrator Theatre School. Enrolled 30 graduate level courses for minor. Secondary endorsement from SUU May 2000 in English/Theater. Created Cedar City Youth theater program 10 years 1994-2004, non-profit corp, 11 member board of community artists.In association with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Iron county school district. Southern Utah University Cedar City, Utah B.S. Elementary Education 1988 Utah Professional Teaching certificate, Level 2 Utah ages 1-12. Taught in various places, Salt Lake Wasatch front and Cedar City, Utah K-3 years, 1st-7 years, 5th 1 year, private school, charter schools, high school Shakespeare, College Prep. Administrated/taught 1997 private school Indian students tutoring and preschool ages 4-16, 1 year. 23 students. Hired preschool teacher. Taught two students in home school, one year from Bolivia. Trained in Core Knowledge, Integrated education, Writing Road to Reading, various math/literature programs. Hobby: family history, gardening.

Montessori training 2008-2010,1000 training, full time two summers, Gateway Preparatory charter school. Taught as Montessori teacher 6-9 environment two years. Special assignment: leader of Title One team reading assessment all students grades K-8th. Taught English 4 years SUU 2011-2015, as ESL instructor to international college classes in Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing.

CURRENT LICENSES: (Moved to Arizona 2019)

AZ professional teaching license 2019 with Az Constitution, US History Summer online 2022. Elementary, grades K-8 and grades 6-12 English/Theater. TESOL certificate from TESOL professional organization January 2014. 60 credit hours

(Teaching English to Students of Other Languages) required for my university job. ARIZONA WORK EXPERIENCE

Montessori Teacher ages 6-9 2023-2024 Mission Montessori charter (private)school, Scottsdale, AZ 1 year contracted. Also extra assignment: resource and homework help, three months one on one specialist.

Roosevelt School District: 2022-23 Contracted Third grade teacher at Southwest Elementary school 1111 West Dobbins Rd. Principal Juan Sierra. Group of Covid K kids, behind. My students passed the state test. We had excellent intervention that 4 students went to at noon. I worked with HMH language curriculum and other district curriculum given. Our school speciality was project based computer instruction such as children creating a Keynote presentation on the 22 Nations of Arizona and nutrition with our garden. Students were English speaking but coming mostly from Hispanic home cultures.

Queen Creek Unified School District: 1 year contract 2021-22 Permanent Substitute teacher full-time salary position for Desert Mountain Elementary. Administrative assistant Michelle was my supervisor: Taught mostly k, 1st,2nd and then 6th, 5th with some 3rd,4th days. Also worked in the Library. Worked a month at Queen Creek elementary in k, 1, 5 and gifted school assignment.

Catapult Reading Intervention:

2020 four monthsTaught 15 students k-5th grade small groups using Catapult curriculum. Kelly Services sub 1 year Phoenix school district.

(DETAIL) UTAH WORK EXPERIENCE

Alpine Gems,Family business partner: 2015-2019 Cedar City Decision making, customer service and sale of alabaster carving stones to artists, large supply houses, businesses. Human resource management, shipping, organization of orders, supervise cut shop, web site management, creation, posting, communication, accounting, mining paperwork. My brothers now currently mine the stone and run the company. Southern Utah University, ESL instructor Cedar City,Utah English for adult international students:(28 hours per weekplus prep) May 2012-Dec. 2015 Designed Canvas classes. Each session 7 weeks long.

I taught 5 classes each 5 week term in Listening Speaking Levels 2,7,8 Reading Writing Levels 3,5,7,8 and Grammar 4,5. Community program which became part of SUU. Listening Speaking Levels 7,8,6,4,3 and Reading Writing 8,7,6,4,3 with Grammar was at first separated and then integrated into other classes. I taught Level 6 for one year and then was the Level 3,4 teacher in 2013-2015.

I enjoyed learning about the many different cultures that came into this intensive English program. Arab, Chinese, Mexican, Brasil,Japanese, Mongolian, French, Korean, and Swiss. I joined in professional development at the end of each 7 week session. We were working on Projects for experiential learning. We had many ESL homestay students in our basement apartment of our house, which got me into this teaching assignment while it was yet new at SUU.

Gateway Preparatory Academy Aug. 2008-2010. Cedar City I worked as a Montessori elementary teacher in the Primary level for two years with a mixed age group of 6-9 yr. olds. In working with small groups, individuals and a whole group circle we covered social skills, geography, math, language, reading, botany, zoology, and history lessons through curriculum we made in addition to the 1000 hours of training. We also put on Festival days using cultural themes to share with parents what we were doing. I was asked to head up a reading recovery team of 4 teachers, 5 aides in 2010 to test all the students in the school to see where they were at. We administered an IRI to all students grades K-8, one on one. We grouped students according to phonic/comprehension needs by skill level and found they were not reading where we wanted them to be. So we invested in an auditory program that could be used outside the classroom in pull out groups during a regular class day by the teacher’s aide. The scores improved dramatically until today, eight years later, the students are testing well. We found this method worked well with our Montessori program even though it wasn’t Montessori which is more visual.

I have been working on a book I am writing called Conversations with a Child. I discovered music was a way to teach children one on one to learn to read. I used this in my ESL classes at SUU and it worked well with adults also.

American Heritage School of South Jordan, Utah 2006-2008 Taught a gifted 1st grade classroom with reading levels from 1st to 4th grade. Instructed students for growth on individual levels, with cultural work in theater and poetry as enrichment. Taught all subjects. Directed Macbeth for the high school. Trained in choral/response with Riggs The Writing Road to Reading, ages preschool to adults. Received training in Thomas Jefferson Leadership and classical education.

American Leadership Academy 2005-2006 Spanish Fork,Utah Taught a general first grade classroom of 28 students how to read,understand math concepts, and love science and history. Trained in Core Knowledge and Thomas Jefferson education as well as integrated education. Cedar City, Utah 1994-2004 Cedar Children’s Theater artistic director/founder. Created a youth program for kids ages 8-22. Hired staff, Directed and produced 15 plays at the Heritage center, Thorley Recital Hall, Randall theater, local schools, and other venues in town. Wrote a pioneer play for the Chamber of Commerce in 1997 to promote the Iron Mission museum. Organized Youth Arts non-profit board of artists to work with youth. They were: Sandra Stiglinski, Lee Montgomery, Adrian Tawa, Troy Allen, Wendy Turner, all professional people. Parents and community volunteers helped in the productions as volunteers as well. Same kids were in it from 7 up to 18.

Cedar Hills private school Cedar City 1 year When the administrator left for California, I was hired to manage the students who were left. There were 16 Paiute students from social services ages 4-16 on individual programs. Hired a preschool teacher for 5 of them. There were some behavior extremes from poverty situations, from the reservation with some cultural barriers, but the youth were able to start public school the next year after I decided to liquidate the school.

Cedar Mountain School and Provo Academy: These schools were classified as drug treatment boarding schools. I worked at the first for one year as a full time teacher in American Literature/Shakespeare/College Prep. We performed a Midsummer Night’s Dream for parents. In the second I was a long term sub for three months through Kelly Services at the boys school in English.

Kelly Services substitute teacher: 1 year Provo school district in Utah. REFERENCES: From supervisors in Az,and peers available upon request. Amber Christensen, literacy advisor Phoenix Christian school, letter Catapult. Utah: Robert Goodman, Teaching supervisor Southern Utah University, 435-***-**** See letter from Andrea Stiefvater letter, director of ESL at Southern Utah University Rob Lee, Principal Gateway Preparatory (Montessori) charter school, deceased Covid. 2020 Tiffany Team supervisor) Gateway Preparatory charter school. Letter

*Montessori reference on training:Letter from coworker Melody Jett, Gateway. She said call her

(2023) if needed.We were trained in Montessori together by Julie Wand, Dayspring (private school) Montessori in St. George, Utah. Certified trainer with the Gateway contract. Also reated her own charter school for K students, currently operating.

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