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Cancer survivor who helps cancer survivors create a customized "Life After Cancer Blueprint" to take back their power and control of late-stage symptoms and side effects to improve life after cancer.

Skills: Online Marketing · Entrepreneurship · Personal Development · Communication · New Business Development

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High Performance Leadership Coach, Trainer, & Speaker

The High Ticket Sales Company

Director of Sales / Project Manager

Skills: Personal Development · Communication

Pocahontas Catholic School

School Principal (Interim)

After years of health issues resulting from a cancer diagnosis in 2011 and leading to a palliative care referral, I needed to take time to take charge of my health and for multiple surgeries and recovery. The result was a successful transition into living life and experiencing my health on my own terms.

Career Break

Health and well-being

Personnel
☑️ Assist in the recruitment, selection, orientation and mentoring of staff within assigned region.
☑️ Coach employees and teams to reach performance targets.
☑️ Evaluate and conduct performance appraisals.
☑️ Provide leadership to staff to enable them to provide high quality services in conformance with the identified needs, improvement planning, and implementation efforts of local school districts.

Special Education
☑️ Advocate for the educational interests of all children and families.
☑️ Coordinate Special Education Program Reviews in school districts.
☑️ Assign weighting in conformance with agency policies/procedures.
☑️ Perform required compliance activities.
☑️ Oversee corrective actions in assigned districts including citations if necessary for situations not meeting state/federal procedures with opportunities to correct.
☑️ Collaborate with school districts involved in due process or state complaints to coordinate support.

School District Support
☑️ Serve as contact with local school district officials, partnering agencies and families.
☑️ Provide leadership and support to local schools in their school improvement efforts.
☑️ Partner with community agencies in advancing the educational interest of children, schools, and families. 
☑️ Serve as resource to AEA staff, school administrators and school district staff on the collaborative problem solving process, AEA service delivery initiative, and student specific cases.

Serve on committees/taskforces in conformance with leadership directives: 
☑️ Department Chair - Liaison & Leadership & Community Building Facilitator
☑️ Early Childhood Special Education - Liaison
☑️ Family Educator Connection - Liaison 
☑️ Assistive Technology - Liaison 
☑️ Collaborative Team Task Force - Facilitator

Prairie Lakes Area Education

Regional Administrator

Provided leadership and support in projects and initiatives through teamwork:
☑️ Professional Development focused on rigor, relevance, and relationships keying in on higher order thinking skills and student engagement.
☑️ Systematic Communication aimed toward enhancing learning culture and enriching student-parent-faculty relationships.
☑️ Attendance Procedures with an interest in the whole child through teamwork and closely monitoring and addressing unexcused absences.
☑️ Shared Vision and Strong Advisory Program focused upon student ownership, character education, service learning, and 21st century skills.
☑️ Support Services/At-Risk and SPED teams; communication with staff on interventions required for student success.
☑️ Academic and Performance Standards within students'​ end-of-year portfolio project, Titan's J.A.M. (Journey of Academic Mastery). 
☑️ PLC Data Analysis and Academic Intervention Program allowing teacher leaders to guide professional learning and instructional improvement with a focus on student data and remediation and acceleration goals; positive gains in Iowa Assessment and MAP scores.
☑️ MS and HS Schedule to better meet the needs of students by adding a daily faculty PLC period, maintaining an end-of-day intervention period, and reallocating a 40-minute period for intervention and acceleration.
☑️ PK-12 Initiative to promote all programs with focus on academics and student services; in doing so, formed business and community partnerships and enlisted parent, staff, and student volunteers to implement the first annual “FEB FEST” at G-T Schools; over 550 people attended the 1st event; overall goal of the annual program is to focus community support on student learning.

INTERIM PRINCIPAL / DEAN OF STUDENTS, 2010-2011
☑️ Worked closely with principal, school personnel, and students to create and maintain a safe and positive school environment using a "raising the bar" approach

Graettinger-Terril Community School District

6-12 Grade School Principal

☑️ Maintained OS X network (4 servers, 300 client machines, 30 airports, 12 switches, filter, firewall)
☑️ Imaged and updated client machines; manage open directory for Mac environment
☑️ Installed and coordinated district MAP testing, JMC, and Curriculum Manager
☑️ Provided technology support/repair daily and “on call” to teachers, administration, students, and families
☑️ Planned and implemented technology professional development

Technology Coordinator

CURRICULUM ROLE, 2011-2015
☑️ Coordinated design and lead district in professional development priorities: Professional Learning Communities, PBiS, technology integration, reading comprehension, and ‘needed’ instructional strategies as determined by PLCs.   
☑️ Maintained Iowa Common Core State Standards/Curriculum & Characteristics of Effective Instruction progress.
☑️ Managed district data, promote school improvement, and fulfill state reporting: CSIP/APR/AYP/CTE/MAG-Dropout Prevention/BEDS.
☑️ Facilitated ongoing curriculum review .
☑️ Conducted walk-throughs with reflective dialogue on instructional, curricular and management strategies.

LIBRARY ROLE, 2008-2015
☑️ Assisted teachers and students with information literacy projects and requests
☑️ Created a district library information site to support teaching and learning
☑️ Completed state reports and maintained library documentation; prepared outdated library for site visit
☑️ Updated literature (and weeded outdated materials) to make resources relevant to district curriculum

K12 Curriculum Director & Library Media Specialist

☑️ Facilitated student learning of key concepts and skills in World History, Psychology, Sociology, Second Chance Reading, and English Language-Arts
☑️ Effectively carried out professional development, communication with parents, assessment of students, staff meetings, and junior class/prom sponsorship
☑️ Designed curriculum maps for 9-12 High School English Language-Arts
☑️ Used data (MAP/ITEDS/Skills Tutor/Princeton Review) to design goals and modify lessons
☑️ Built strong and appropriate relationships while maintaining high expectations for social, behavioral, and academic success of all students
☑️ Provided individual assistance to students as needed
☑️ Collaborated with co-teacher to provide accommodations for students with special needs to enhance overall atmosphere and learning potential within the classroom
☑️ Became a teacher leader who always desires more and better for her students
☑️ Head Coach for High School Volleyball & Track - Primary focus was on creating space for student-athletes to grow as students, athletes, and leaders

Teresa Alesch