Lisa M Grimm
119 S Harvard Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 74112
Phone: 918-402-5531 Email: grimmlisa@gmail.com
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.
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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
Member, Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) 2001-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
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