High School Biology

For seven years I have worked as a science teacher in two incredible locations - the Bronx, New York, and Los Angeles, California. Over time I developed my craft as a pedagogue teaching courses in AP Environmental Science, Biology, and General Science, and creatively delivering lessons in an engaging manner. In my classroom over 90% of students grew on science exams by an average of 35% year over year.

However teaching also required many skills beyond instruction. I managed data for parent communications, student grades, and social-emotional skills through Excel and Google Sheets, automating processes and customizing workflows to suit the needs of my colleagues and students. I regularly participated in an iterative process of data-driven decision making to improve instructional practices and conducted live practice sessions to get feedback from coaches and administrators to improve skills.

In every instructional environment, project management was a key to my success. Providing daily visual slides, interactive materials, and assessments to over 150 students required agile skills to plan a curriculum, adjust for different challenges (from resources to pandemic requirements), and even adapting to specific moments in a lesson such as a student missing key knowledge or taking advantage of a brilliant question. Beyond the classroom I collaborated in my schools with distributed leadership, advancing science curriculum in department meetings, engaging in reflective discussion with grade level teams, or proposing new schedules to improve student outcomes with the entire school staff.