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Project Management SME Collaboration

Project Management: Higher Education Viewbook

As part of my role as the Marketing Supervisor, I was tasked with the full project management of the annual Viewbook. The viewbook was targeted to ALL potential students and their parents in hopes of recruitment and matriculation. I am most proud of this project because of the intense collaboration I facilitated between the learning, college advancement, and advisement teams. My main mission was to show potential students what their pathway could look like while starting bite-sized credentials at NWTC. This took hundreds of meetings, revisions, beta tests, and more. This methodology transferred to the website, individual program brochures, and all branding deliverables used in recruiting. In addition to this collaboration with SMEs for critical information, I managed a team of designers (tried to keep them happy and calm), our internal printing department, and leadership above me all the way to our president. Please see the table of contents and individual program pages to get a feel for the level of coordination involved.

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Adobe Illustrator Marketing Design

Poster: Health Fair

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Adobe Illustrator Marketing Design

Poster: Belly to Baby Expo

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Infographic Job Aid

Infographic: Medicare Plans

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Articulate Rise Assessments Elearning

Articulate Rise: Fictitious Course for Embody Gaming Chair

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Curriculum Design Instructor Led Presentation K12

Lesson designs: K4

Through my undergrad in Educational Studies, I focused on Special Education and Elementary Education. I had full semesters of assessment writing, research, diversity and inclusion, and reaching all learners through learning theories and multiple modalities. Below are some examples of lessons created during this time. When I moved into my Masters in Learning and Technology, I began to focus on how human beings respond to learning with technology, where burnout can emerge, and how to balance instructor-led training with AI.

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Research Writing Sample

Research: The Crash of Public Education

Public schools are stuck in the storm. Both mysterious and multifaceted, the lightning and thunder act together and apart. The people are divided. Administrators are divided. Policies are misconstrued and lend to more pressure and a deeper divide. And, every side is claiming to battle for student success. Who gets left out in the rain? Who are the innocent bystanders? At a pivotal moment of scarcity and survival, the elements of public policy, high-stakes assessments, diversity, and inclusion, teaching core curriculum standards, and instructional delivery are on the top of everyone’s mind and all over the media. The data feeds the news and the news feeds the people and bits and pieces of truth are lost along the way and recycled back. Once evidence-based action can be proven, a new normal for educating children from K12 and into early college can be established. As policymakers step out of the way, initiatives from the inside can take root. Perhaps the entry of free-market education will allow for more freedom of instruction and we can begin to close the achievement gap we hear so much about. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin. It is time to get out of the way of the trajectory of public education and let it be what it wants to be for a while. There will always be passionate parent groups, there will always be research into the shaping of the mind, and there will always be talk about preparing the future workforce. Some things will change and some things will remain the same. The most difficult part of change is the turmoil we hear about in this tumultuous time in education.

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Assessments Curriculum Design Research Writing Sample

Research: Training teachers for Project-based learning

The purpose of the research study is to learn of the successful and unsuccessful attempts at training teachers in the implementation of project-based lesson delivery. This will show any gaps in current teacher professional development training and resources pertaining to it. Further, research related to the increased demand placed on teachers due to barriers (increasing paperwork, IEPs, teaching to test, lower salaries causing second jobs, increasing caseload and class sizes) will shed light on the fact that the current model of education in the United States is due for a shift in order to meet the needs of the modern learner in the age of multi-media information delivery.

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Research: Inquiry Meets Technology

The purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of Achieve3000 Intensive Intervention (inquiry-based lesson) would have an impact on the reading comprehension of high school students in the Special Education English Language Arts instructional setting. The
problem is that High School students in the Special Education ELA (English Language Arts) instructional setting demonstrate low reading comprehension skills and a lack of motivation to read. Low reading comprehension skills will hinder student learning in post-secondary education and future occupations. The action research methodology asks a pertinent question about a way to affect reading comprehension, addresses, and experiments with an inquiry-based lesson plan paired with technology. Outcomes were evaluated, and recommendations were made. As a data collection tool, students received an Achieve3000 article with multiple-choice questions to measure Reading Comprehension at the beginning of each lesson and a post-assessment following the intensive lesson. Students are in 9th through 10th grade and come from varied ethnic backgrounds. Students have an IEP with a Reading Comprehension goal. Findings of the study indicate growth following an intensive, inquiry-based reading lesson, although more research is recommended in the area of learner fatigue and academic burnout.

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Assessments Curriculum Design Research

Assessments Examples

Assessment Analysis

Assessments should be free of bias and should never aim to trick the learner. When a clear roadmap is used while delivering content, formative checks are made along the way and testing parallels the flow of learning, students will have a successful learning outcome. Multiple measures must always be considered so that all learners can demonstrate learning regardless of testing anxiety, language gaps, or learning disabilities.

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