Objective: My goal is to pursue a career to improve the lives and outcomes of my students. My experiences and knowledge in this area will allow me to promote problem-solving skills, ideas of equity, multiculturalism, the importance of education and citizenship to all students.
Administrative Experience
Associate Principal
Culler Middle School; Lincoln, NE; Fall 2012- Spring 2023
- Collaborating closely with administrative team to promote a positive, high achieving learning environment.
 - School Improvement Team Leader and developed systems to improve this process.
 - Helped to lead and improve our Tier 2/3 and All Tiers Teams.
 - Working closely with district personnel and Culler staff during the initial Technology Pilot for Lincoln Public Schools focusing on Go Math! Curriculum.
 - Developing and implementing significant changes to behavioral interventions in conjunction with BIST, PBIS, and Restorative Justice.
 - Directly involved in human resources in the building including appraising and coaching half of the Culler faculty on their teaching practices as well as hiring new staff.
 - Led major changes to the master schedule and how information was received from teachers and inputted using the AS400, Pinnacle and Synergy information systems.
 - Managing the facilities and maintenance of the building including overseeing Standard Response Protocol.
 - Developed, researched, and administrated an innovative summer program Culler Summer Investigators (CSI) for transitioning new students to Culler.
 
Instructional Coordinator
Culler Middle School; Lincoln, NE; Fall 2010-12
- Facilitated BIST building-wide, including teaching workshops for staff, developing intervention plans for students. Assisted organizing BIST a consistent grade level, team approach.
 - Collaborated with staff as an instructional leader and appraiser.
 - Worked closely with students and families for discipline issues.
 - Designed and implemented the Hope Program, a program designed to pair Doane College education majors with Culler students to teach about the promise of post-secondary education.
 - Began using Learning Together, a peer-to-peer reading intervention/mentoring after school program.
 - Developed master schedule.
 - Appointed lead administrator for Summer School
 
Teaching Experience
Professional Teaching
Bryan Community High School; Lincoln, NE; Fall 2001-05, 06-10.
- Taught a variety of math and social science classes to at-risk students with great disparities of ability and motivation.
 - Developed curriculum and team-taught multiple lesson units through multi-disciplinary and theme-based approaches.
 - Member of School Improvement, Professional Learning Community, Advisement, Assessment and Evaluation teams.
 - Involved in discipline and behavioral intervention process with the administration.
 - Participated in department and building liaison meetings, including the respective Multicultural, Equity, Instruction, and School and Community Intervention Program teams.
 - Coached Girls Junior Varsity and Reserve Soccer teams and Boys Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Reserve Soccer teams at Lincoln High School.
 
Professional Teaching- Sun Prairie High School; SOAR Program; Sun Prairie, WI; Fall 2006-07
- Developed a night high school program for at-risk students.
 - Taught multiple English classes to students who had been expelled from the larger Sun Prairie High School.
 - Implemented several interdisciplinary mini-units for school-wide curricular experiences.
 - Started using BIST as a behavioral plan and program philosophy.
 - Work Experience
 - Leadership Lincoln- Program Director; March 2025-present
 - Developed and implemented curriculum to Executive, Flagship, and Youth cohorts
 - Curated and implemented systems to better the feedback and response to feedback loops
 - Continued to recruit, train, and supervise program volunteers, staff, and committee members.
 - Developing a staff development plan for the following fall/year with the Interim Executive Director/Board.
 - Research longitudinal data for effectiveness of program- quantitative and/or qualitative.
 - Recruit and market to all past, current, and future stakeholders.
 
Education
- Doane University- Fall 2015- December 2018
- Finishing Educational Specialist Degree in December of 2018
 - G.P.A.: 4.00
 - Will pursue Doctorate of Education
 
 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln- Spring 2007- Fall 2010
- Masters of Educational Administration
 - G.P.A.: 4.00
 
 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln- Fall 1997- Spring 2001
- Bachelor of Science in Education, Secondary Education- Social Sciences.
 - G.P.A.: 3.70
 - Researched the application of fostering resiliency for at-risk students in public schools through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program and the Department of Educational Psychology.
 
 
Scholarships/Awards
- Superior Scholar Award- Graduated in the top 3% of the Teachers College
 - UNL Dean’s List- Fall and Spring semesters 1997-2001
 - UNL Honors Program
 - UNL Honors Program Textbook Scholarship
 - Moreland Scholarship of Distinction in Social Sciences
 - Canfield Scholarship
 - Jessie E. Keller Scholarship
 
Organizations/Activities
- Leadership LPS Cadre 2016
 - Lincoln Public Schools Leadership Cadre 2010-2011
 - Teacher’s College Honors Board- 1998-2001
 - Community Civil Rights Activism Group (SEAC)-1998-2002
 - Lincoln High Girls and Boys Soccer Coach- 2001-10
 - Asian Community Center Citizenship Class Teacher-1999-2001