EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT |  ASKMYCLASS

September 2018-Present

A Classroom helper on Alexa, giving teachers an extra pair of hands, and engaging students, screen-free.

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• The first employee of Y-Combinator backed startup. Led projects across product development, marketing & sales, content creation, and partnerships to support company growth

• Increased the customer base from 265 teachers to 2,300+ (750%) through community building, social media outreach, and email campaigns ($0 marketing budget)

• Regularly observed classroom across the country, interviewed students/teachers, met with consultants, and industry leaders to develop and refine content leading to an increase of daily usage

• Simplified product through user feedback and created an implementation guide to help teachers find value 50% faster 

• Studied effective pedagogy and evaluated competitors in Social- Emotional Learning marketplace leading to the rebranding and repositioning of both AskMyClass’ product and messaging

COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGER | MATHS PATHWAY 

December 2016-July 2018

Startup whose data driven learning and teaching model is doubling the rate students learn through personalized learning.

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• Built an engaged community of 1,892 teachers; improved satisfaction to 89% by providing resources to innovate classroom practices and lift teacher profile

• Increase customer retention 19% by identifying customer needs and creating personalized professional development through gap analysis, using support tickets and teacher focus group data to drive better performance for districts

• Product and project management for Community Hub (online teacher portal) including conception, design, product build and launch with on-going analysis to continually iterate and improve user experience

• Manage cross functional team of marketing, development, and learning to create webinars for teachers, increasing visibility from 120 views to over 900

• Execute data driven social media initiatives including A/B testing of creative to different audiences to reach new prospects through social along with increasing engagement from the current community by 40%

• Responsible for presenting key findings to CEO on the health of the teacher community and provide recommendations to senior leadership to drive engagement

• Develop content (lesson plans, resources, PD) by employing a teacher-center designed process that is doubling student growth in mathematics

• Orchestrate all parts of event planning process for conferences from finding presenters, creating sessions, handling logistics and managing an $80,000 budget with 98% satisfaction rate from attendees

ESL TEACHER | PATRICK HENRY ELEMENTARY

August 2013- August 2016

K-6 school trying to innovate classroom practices to improve student outcomes.

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• Drove academic performance through data driven feedback that resulted in 1.8 levels of growth on average in language proficiency

• Improved student academic self-confidence 32%, by creating a culture where students took ownership of their learning to adjust to their skills, curiosity and goals

• Increased student attendance 20% by designing learning experiences around deep understanding of both academic and non-academic (e.g., social, cultural and emotional) needs, interests and strengths

• Created dynamic student learning profiles updated biweekly through information gathering and analysis

BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS PILOT LEAD | LEAP INNOVATIONS

August 2014 - August 2016

Nonprofit connecting innovation and education to reinvent the one-size-fits all system.

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• Awarded $280,000 LEAP grant by implementing innovative teaching practices that increased student growth leading to the creation of a school-wide personalized learning model

• Selected as model classroom for regular observation for teachers, administrators and curriculum designers to study innovative classroom practices 

• Implemented blended learning programs with fidelity through consistent data analysis and reflection which increased standardized test scores 28%

• Evaluated effectiveness of programs ability to support paced progressions, communicating findings to tech companies for program improvements

• Coached and provided strategic guidance to school-wide colleagues on using personalized learning to improve student outcomes

CURRICULUM LEAD | PATRICK HENRY ELEMENTARY

December 2014 - August  2016

School-wide curriculum development and roll out across entire K-6.

• Presented monthly professional development workshops and coached all teachers on Understanding by Design (UBD) which led to 100% of teachers implementing UBD by end of year 

• Developed and optimized a rigorous curriculum through observation, feedback, and Common Core aligned curriculum design products leading to attainment of our program 

• Created a consistent system for measuring student growth which allowed for targeted individual interventions; tracking system successfully adopted and implemented across grade levels