Resume

Vickie Anne Young

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position as an assistant principal to utilize my skills and proficiency in leadership and management

Dynamic, talented educational leader Excellent interpersonal and people skills Highly self-motivated and tenacious in completing projects Extensive experience in education, executive management

practices, workshop instruction, and mentoring students

EDUCATION

CURRENTLY ATTENDING MASTER’S IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, HOUSTON, TX – EXPECTED GRADUATION 12/2015 (4.0 GPA)

MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, HOUSTON TX, 2012 (4.0 GPA)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, ONTARIO, CA, 2001 (3.78 GPA)

CERTIFICATIONS

Principal (Provisional, pending completion of internship/practicum 5/2015)

Instructional Leadership Development

Generalist 4-12

Special Education EC-12

 

SKILLS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Cypress Fairbanks ISD, Houston, TX – 10/06 – PresentCampbell Middle School - Case Manager and Special Education Adaptive Behavior and Basic Resource Teacher Grades 6-8 – 8/2012 - presentCampbell Middle School – Special Education Life Skills, Instructional Aid – 11/11 – 06/12Labay Middle School - Special Education Life Skills, Instructional Aid – 06/12 – 08/12Cypress Fairbanks ISD Substitute Teacher - Grades K–12 multiple facilities – 10/ 06 – 11/11

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Berlitz Language Center, Houston, TX – 06/08 - 05/10 English as a Second Language Instructor - Students

originated from Africa, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, and Spain

Texas Tutor Professionals, Houston, TX – 11/06 - 2/10

Designed and facilitated GED and ESL workshops for students and parents

PUBLIC SERVICE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Bank of America Community Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA 05/81 – 01/97Team America Volunteer and Speakers’ Bank - Designed and facilitated over 100 leadership business forums, career fairs, conferences, internships, mentoring relationships, and workshops for youth, adults, and Special Olympics in Los Angeles and San Diego, CA

 

BOSS The Movement Christian Business Ministry, Ontario, CA – 05/95 – 06/05Master Trainer for entreprenuerialship training workshops for youth and adults. Implemented innovative programs to teach business skills and provided consultative advice for new business ventures

Workshops

BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WPS National Inc., Riverside, CA and Phoenix, AZ – 1/97 – 5/05Chief Financial Officer of a family owned & operated Janitorial Service. Managed 1000+ accounts averging $3,000,000 USD annually.

Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA – 05/81 – 01/97Vice President & Senior Property Manager, Corporate Real Estate Management Department. Responsible for managing and directing a comercial real estate portfolio of over 10,000 properties in Northern and Southern California valued at $15,000,000 USD.

NOTABLE AWARDS AND COMMENDATIONS

“ESL Instructor of Year” Berlitz Language Center, Houston, TX – 2008 “Commitment to Excellence” Inland Empire Minority Business Development Center

Ontario, CA - 2004 “Platinum Scholarship Sponsor” San Antonio Regional Occupational Program,

Riverside, CA - 2004 “Working Together: Succeeding as a Couple and Partners” Riverside, CA Press

Enterprise Article - 2000 “Making It Minority Success Stories” Featured Interview Channel 5 KTLA Los

Angeles, CA - 1999 “Affirmative Action Award” Security Pacific Corporation/Joint Network Council Los

Angeles, CA - 1998 “STAR Diversity Supplier Award” Bank of America Los Angeles, CA – 1998 Listed among "100 Most Promising Black Women in Corporate America" Ebony

Magazine Chicago, IL -1/91

BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW - INTRODUCTION

Pete Hall, principal of Sheridan Elementary School in Spokane, Washington (winner of the 2004 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Outstanding Young Educator Award) and Alisa Simeral, literacy coach at Anderson Elementary School in Reno, Nevada collaborated to write, “Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders.” They met at Anderson Elementary School in Reno, Nevada. Hall was the principal and Simeral was hired as the instructional coach. Over a two-year period, the staff and leadership team at Anderson made monumental changes, both structural and philosophical. These changes resulted in successful school improvements and is the foundation for their book.

BOOK REVIEW - OVERVIEW

Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success provides a road map to help site-based administrators and instructional coaches bring out the best in every teacher and achieve greater academic success as a result. The quality of the teacher is the “X Factor.” Everything in education depends on it. Teachers are the field agents of educational change and building the capacity for their success is vital for Strength-Based School Improvement. Hall and Simeral’s model of Strength-Based School Improvement is an alternative to a negative, deficit-approach focused on fixing what is wrong. Instead, they show school leaders how to achieve their goals by working together to maximize what is right. They offer proven strategies organized around two easy-to-use tools, the innovative Continuum of Self-Reflection and a feedback-focused walk-through model.

BOOK REVIEW – PART I

Opening a Window of School Improvement

Introduces the foundation for the Strength-Based School Improvement. This model is based on identifying teachers’ strengths, maximizing teachers’ potential, and building teachers’ capacity. This is a collaborative effort with the partnership established in a triangular relationship between the teachers, administrators, and instructional coaches. Together they build a professional learning community based on continuous learning and improvement.

BOOK REVIEW – PART II

Coaching Along the Continuum

Defines the roles and responsibilities of the instructional coaches and offers a framework for taking meaningful action to build teacher capacity and collegial relationships. Effective coaches have strong interpersonal and people skills. They have to have empathy, patience, and the ability to discern where a teacher is in their professional development. They need to work along side the teacher to build respect and trust. The teacher builds strength through the continuum of self-reflection on their daily instructional practices and positive changes to improve student learning.

BOOK REVIEW – PART IIIThe Enduring Work of the Building Administrator

Establishing meaningful relationships in schools requires strong leadership. Hall and Simeral introduced the definitions of leadership and management as they relate to school improvement. Marcus Buckingham (2005), a noted expert on leadership and management, shares this advice: "You can play both roles, of course, but if you do, you must know when to change gears. When you want to manage, begin with the person. When you want to lead, begin with the picture of where you are headed" (p.71). In their pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement, school administrators face challenges, obstacles, pressures, constraints, and unexpected impediments. The administrator is the most influential variable in education today. The administrator has the ability to inspire, encourage, and activate the potential and output of every single teacher on staff. He or she must tackle cultivating relationships and building teachers' capacity for success.

BOOK REVIEW - RECOMMENDATION

I highly recommend this book for aspiring administrators. It was easy to read and easy to relate to my current role as a special education teacher. There are many ideas I gleaned from the lessons learned in this book. I believe in the practice of the self-reflective continuum and it is something I do on a daily basis. Self-reflection has made me a better teacher and it is very encouraging to go back and review the writings and lessons that I have learned for self-improvement. I also learned the importance of instructional coaches and have one on my campus who is like Simeral. She is excellent in building relationships based on respect and trust. I have seen her work with many of the “change resistors.” This is a skill I want to strengthen as I develop best practices to become an effective administrator.

BOOK REVIEW - REFERENCES

Buckingham, M. (2005). The one thing you need to know … About great managing, great leading, and sustained individual success. New York: Free Press.

Hall, P. and Simeral, A. (2008). Building Teachers' Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders. Virginia: ASCD.

QUOTE

“To excel as an administrator you must never forget that each of your direct reports is unique and that your chief

responsibility is not to eradicate this uniqueness, but rather to arrange roles, responsibilities, and expectations so that you can capitalize upon it. The more you perfect

this skill, the more effectively

you will turn talents into performance.”

Marcus Buckingham

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