OBJECTIVE
To benefit a school that can use an entrepreneurial, caring and versatile teacher with a record of success for helping to improve a wide range of outcomes. These positive outcomes include academic achievement, attendance, and drastically increasing graduation and post-secondary education placement rates.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
•Several years experience in teaching, college admissions counseling, interdisciplinary career-based curriculum and job development.
•Certified SIOP instructor to ESL students.
•Created educational and behavioral interventions designed to address the needs of all students.
•Selected by the Superintendent to serve on the 13 member, District Performance Excellence Steering Committee and to participate in Oklahoma Quality Award Examiner training.
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATES
Minnesota Pre K-12 Teaching License # 373099
Oklahoma Pre K-12 Teaching License # 215493
SIOP (ESL) Instructor Certificate, October 2004
Entrepreneurship Instruction Certificate, June 1998
EDUCATION
M. S. Guidance and Counseling, University of Wisconsin-STOUT 2001
•Guidance and Counseling with School Counseling K-12 Certificate
•Selected to serve as Student Adviser to the Dean on the Performance Excellence Steering Team
•3.96 GPA
•UW-STOUT was the first four year university to receive the Malcolm Baldridge Award
B. A. Vocational Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-STOUT 1997
•Business Administration Minor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERENCE
PBIS and Wrap Around Coordinator/Life Skills Coach, Associated Centers for Therapy
March 2007-present
•Developed interventions designed to improve student reading, writing, spelling, mathematical, interpersonal relationships, depression, motivation, memory, organization, listening, speaking and behavior problems.
•Successfully implemented Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) with a large and diverse student body.
School Counselor/ Partners in Education Coordinator, Academy Central Elementary
August 2004-June 2006
•Taught ESL pull-out classes, 50 minute Life Skills Lessons to 250 students, and provided small group counseling daily.
•Responsible for teaching all grades, providing special education support services, academic and behavior counseling, and follow-up services to high investment urban students, with diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds.
•Assisted building principal in a range of building and district level responsibilities including curriculum design, staff development and evaluation, scheduling, school improvement planning and student discipline.
•Led the Child Study Team and wrote educational and behavior plans to solve specific learning and retention problems.
School Counselor, Will Rogers High School
July 2001-June 2002
•Served as primary school counselor to 400, 9th grade students.
•Initiated Career Pathway, work-based learning and after-school tutoring programs and established a support network for 9th grade and all ESL students and their families.
•Responsible for academic advising that included credit analysis, transcript translation, proper course selection, and post-secondary planning.
•Worked with faculty and students in designing and implementing a standardized test preparation plan to better prepare and motivate students to perform well on standardized tests and benchmark exams.
School Counselor/Work Coordinator, The Education Place - An alternative school for teen-parents ages 10-22.
August 1999- July 2001
•Taught Scholarship Writing at grade levels 8-12 and developed original lesson plans aimed at intrinsic motivation.
•Co-facilitated a project-based, ¡°Beyond High School¡± course with an English teacher that taught college entrance exam preparation, career planning, life skills, technology skills, and money management.
•Created and implemented a Career Major program that helped increase post-secondary school placement from none to every graduate with the exception of two, who were involved in apprenticeships.
School Counselor Harding High School
March 1997-August 1999
•Created and taught an experiential project-based entrepreneurship course that gained national recognition.
•Initiated and co-taught an interdisciplinary, community-based agriculture summer school course.
•Authored winning grant proposal that provided a revolving business loan fund for students.
•Assisted in the start-up of Entrepreneurial Advantage a Community Development Corporation and served as board member along with a State Senator and business leaders, to enhance success of student owned businesses.
Welfare-to-Work Consultant, Skills First, Saint Paul Port Authority
March 1999-August 1999
•Provided grant writing services and helped to develop a city-wide program to provide barrier removal, skills training, college and career planning, counseling, placement and follow-up services for hard to employ high school seniors and welfare recipients.
Career Placement Specialist, Projects with Industry
January1992-May 1996
•Provided job placement, career planning services to high school seniors and persons with disabilities.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
President, Tulsa Counselors Association (TCA), 2005-2007
•First Vice President, 2004-05
Member, District Performance Excellence Steering Committee 2005-present
Member, American School Counseling Association (ASCA) 1999-present
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
*Customer Service: Kids, Parents & Community *Preparing the Village to Raise Our Children *Child Study Team/504 *Education and Behavior Intervention Plans *Breaking Barriers to Student Success Institute *Working with the Business Community to Invest in Change *Violence Prevention *Tapping Community Resources *GLBT Outreach Training
*Alternative Assessment Training *School to Work Training Institute *Academic/Vocational Integrated Curriculum *Developing Literacy Standards & Benchmarks *SIOP Sheltered Instruction Training *Creating Work-Based & Project-Based Learning Environments *School Counselor and the Minnesota Standards *Performance Excellence: Strategic Planning & Alignment *Tribes * Building Accountability for Student Achievement & Program Success Documentation
References available upon request
Lisa Grimm Phone: 918-402-5531 Email: grimmlisa@gmail.com
