Customer Service High School
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Gabrielle Whitlock
***** ****** ***** • Spring, Texas 77373
Home 281-***-**** Cell 281-***-**** ********@***.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Decisive, results-driven person offering 24 years of work experience in education, retail management, and childcare. Strong organizational and management skills with a willingnes to learn, in order to expand my career potential. Proven capabilities in management positions as well as compassion for employees and students. I am looking for a change from the public education field and looking forward to a great opportunity in a new career in the corporate training field.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
SPRING ISD
2004 – PRESENT
SPRING HIGH SCHOOL 2004 – 2006 / 2011 – PRESENT
• World Geography Team Leader Advanced Placement United States History, On-Level and Co-Teach World Geography.
• Responsible for leading a team of six World Geography teachers as we plan for the new End Of Course Test and help make the transformation in our curriculum for TAKS to EOC, focusing on the new TEKS requirements.
• Responsible for creating lesson plans, power point presentations, assignments for daily lessons and exams. Responsible for data analysis comparing student performance, as well as teacher performance based on exam results.
• Responsible for planning and conducting team meetings.
• Responsible for rewriting the entire World Geography curriculum at the district level in 2006.
• Responsible for grading essays and other assignments for 185 students, as well as making parent contact for failing students, special education paperwork, failure reports, etc.
Carl Wunsche Sr. High School Career Academy in Spring 2006 – 2011
• Team Leader for The United States History Team
• Advanced Placement United States History, On-level United States History in the Medical Tower.
• Responsible for planning curriculum for the entire junior class, consisting of approximately 650 students.
• 100 % pass rate on the TAKS test for the last four years as well as the highest commended rate in the department, reaching over 50% from 2008 - 2011.
• Responsible for planning and facilitating team meetings.
• Responsible for planning lessons and leading rotations at our district wide in-services.
• Received Three Educator of Distinction awards where students nominated me as “The Teacher that made the biggest difference in their entire twelve years of public education”.
• Received the Claus NOBEL Educator or Distinction award from the National Society of High School Scholars. This award is given to approximately twenty teachers nationwide each year whom are nominated by their students and awarded by the NOBEL family / organization.
• Responsible for interviewing potential students wanting to attend Carl Wunsche Sr. High School Career Academy.
• Committees:
o Worked on the Campus Improvement Committee which created and implemented the policies and procedures for teachers and students to follow throughout the school year.
o Worked on the Attendance Committee which made decisions as to which students would receive credit for their classes based on confidential information such as medical needs, family issues, etc.
o Worked on the ACE Committee which is the Superintendents committee that works on the district calendar and textbook adoption decisions for the Spring Independent School District.
o Worked on the Time Committee which looked at the potential bell schedules that the district would follow. Responsible for researching what other school districts were implementing throughout the state and nationwide and then making the proper recommendations for SISD.
Sheldon ISD - C.E. King High School 2003 – 2004
• Teacher – World Geography, Speech and Debate Coach, Speech and Debate team.
• Responsible for ordering curriculum for the speech and debate class as well as collecting tournament fees, scheduling tournament participation, chaperoning students for tournaments, along with preparing for the district UIL tournament on our campus.
• Due to medical complications of a coworker I assumed primary responsibility of his classroom and curriculum, including but not limited to; grading, planning, contacting parents, copies and completing special education paperwork for over 300 students.
Paper Plus 1995 – 1997
• Assistant manager
• Responsible for special orders, customer service and inventory.
• Responsible for daily reports and deposits.
Wal-mart 1991 – 1995
Spring, TX and Huntsville, TX – Department Manager, Optical Department Invoice Clerk, Sales and Layaway Associate.
• Responsible for checking in inventory as well as correcting billing statements in the optical department.
• Responsible for ordering, managing staff, pricing inventory, customer service and special orders.
• Jewelry sales associate responsible for counting inventory daily, ensuring the inventory books were accurate and each piece was accounted for prior to being put out on display.
• Lay-a-way associate responsible for putting items into lay-a-way and running monthly reports to pull merchandise and return to inventory. Called customers to inform them of their lay-a-way / account status.
Learning Ladder Childcare 1989 – 2001
• Responsible for supervising up to 35 children in a classroom, on a playground or on summer field trips. This also included driving the daycare van and following all state regulations set forth for each age group.
• Prepared weekly lesson plans for the classes.
• Communicated with parents professionally on a daily basis.
• This was my first job and a job that I returned to when I was home from college or when I was in between jobs.
EDUCATION _______________________________________________________________________________________
Sam Houston State University: Huntsville, Texas 1990 – 1993 / 2001 – 2003
• Bachelor of Arts: Social Studies Composite with an emphasis in History
• National Deans List: Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002
• SHSU Deans List: Fall 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2002
• Special Recognition for achieving a 4.0 grade point average in spring 2001.
• Approximately 30 additional college hours of business classes when I was an accounting major while attending 1990 – 1993
• Minor in Speech Communication
Additional information
Texas Education Agency Teaching Certification for Secondary Schools Specializing in Social Studies.
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