Angela

Angela D. has over 30 years serving in education in three different states; Georgia, Florida (26 years), and North Carolina. Presently, she is semi-retired and moved back home to Savannah, GA. She still serves in a part-time remote basis for her former employer, Piedmont Classical High School. She was employed as the Director of Operations at Piedmont Classical High School (PCHS), a Charter High School in Guilford County. Ms. in her position supported the school in an administrative, district roles handling finance and budget, payroll, personnel and benefits, federal programs, instructional technology, assessment and accountability, as well as curriculum and instruction.

Prior to PCHS, Ms. worked for the NC Department of Public Instruction as a Service Support Coordinator in Educator Support Services (ESS)serving districts in the North Central and Northeast regions. In this position, she leads a cross-divisional team to analyze data and provide professional development and other resources to support teacher and student growth. She also served Broward County Schools as a Staff Development Instructional Coach in a feeder pattern of urban schools. In this position, she supported the principals and teachers in standards-based instruction, data disaggregation and analysis, as well as instructional coaching. Prior to her work at NCDPI, she also spent, 14 years as an administrator; 6 years as an Assistant Principal and 8 years as a Principal both in Florida and North Carolina all at highly impacted, majority-minority schools. Ms. has a track record of increasing student achievement as an instructional leader.

My teaching philosophy is simple…All Children can learn! As a professional educator, it is expected that I will provide engaging lessons on the content to be learned using a variety of instructional strategies to support students’ mastery of the content. Since all students learn at different rates or may be missing foundational information to support their learning/mastery, I will provide additional instruction to those students in small groups, starting at their level (differentiated instruction) and build up to reach the current content level. This additional, personalized instruction to those students will support their learning and mastery of the content. I will build into the lessons, ways to assess student learning throughout the day and unit. This data will be used to make any necessary adjustments to my instruction on a daily basis.

"Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire." –William Butler Yeats

Willing to travel: 20 miles

Experience: Since my career in education has been long, I have a wide variety of experiences:
Degrees: BS in Chemistry Education, MS Educational Leadership, Doctorate Educational Leadership (ABD).
I was a classroom teacher for 14 years and have taught, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Physical Science, Anatomy and Physiology
Outside of Teaching:
Instructional Coach
Assistant Principal
Principal
Educational Consultant for the NC Department of Public Instruction
Business Operations, technology integration, professional development

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