Resume

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Cell Phone: (570) 350-5956
E-mail: cafe@ptd.net

2001 – 2005

1999 – 2002

1994 – 1999

1992 – 1993

1989 – 1992

1987 – 1989

• Develop and customize workshops on all Diversity Issues including Diversity as prevention to Sexual Harassment, Spanish for a specific purpose, Latino Culture, Gender.  Deliver Leadership Workshops, Keynote, Corporate Diversity Training, Cross Cultural Communication. All levels of participants and may also be presented in Spanish.

National Education Association Minority Leadership Cadre Trainer (NEA)  Nationwide, USA

• Deliver nationwide workshops on Deliver on Power Language, Decision-making, Assertiveness, and Communication Sending and Receiving Workshops, Community Partnership, Message Development

Associate Professor.
Keystone College, La Plume PA

• Teach traditional and Weekender Program courses in interpersonal communication, sociology of social diversity, Spanish, language Arts and Literature, Multicultural Edu, Perspectives on ESL and college preparedness

Diversity Coordinator and Associate Professor.
Keystone College, La Plume PA

• Direct and maintain the college wide Strategic Plan Diversity Initiative.
• Create and deliver diversity programs on campus, and in the community.
• Project Teach Instructor at the College’s off-site campus in Philadelphia
• Coordinate recruitment and retention efforts of minority students and staff
• Facilitate grant projects, grant writing, and curriculum implementation
• Sponsor Keystone College’s Multi-Ethnic Cultural Association chapter
  • Represent Keystone College as Board Member of the NEPA Diversity Education Consortium, Recruitment and Retention of Educators Subcommittee, and Public Relations Subcommittee

Director of Northeastern Pennsylvania Diversity Education Consortium, Associate Director of the Diversity Institute, Camp Director of the Diversity Intergeneration Summer Leadership Camp,  Adjunct Spanish Professor, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA

Created, directed and maintained the Strategic Plan and Initiatives for 13 colleges, 5 businesses, and 4 school districts. Maintained budgets secured grants and actively recruited minority students, employees and faculty.

• Collaborated in the writing of a broad based Diversity curriculum
• Planned and Organized Diversity Inter-generational Summer Camp
• Organized, Planned and Implemented Diversity workshops
• Maintained the Consortiums website presence
• Facilitated grant projects

ESOL Coordinator and Teacher of ESOL and Spanish.
Pocono Mountain School District, Swiftwater, PA

• Taught grades K-5 and grades 9-12
• Developed and implemented ESOL programs at all elementary schools,
• Conducted district wide workshops and in-services for classroom teachers and administrators on educating culturally and linguistically diverse students.
• Developed home language survey and protocol for the interpretation of data
• Prepared all government reports, oversaw testing
• Represented Pocono Mountain as a ESOL presenter to the East Stroudsburg School District, Stroudsburg School District, and Schkelly School District

Teacher. Bethlehem School District, Bethlehem, PA

• Collaborated on the district wide development of the English Immersion Program, which included coordination of ESL and Reading programs
• 5th grade bilingual teacher

ESOL Coordinator and Bilingual Math Teacher. District 21 Intermediate School, Brooklyn, NY

• Taught Math to grades 6-9
• Conducted Teacher / Parents Workshops on Adult Literacy, Learning Spanish, The Writing Process, Acculturation “Life in America”, and How to Become Computer Friendly

Teacher.  St. Agnes School, Brooklyn, NY

• Taught 5th grade with specialization in  Math and Computer Science