marissa klein

* Courses taught: eighth grade English language arts (3 years), seventh grade English (3 years), sixth grade humanities (1 year), eighth grade Capstone (2 years), advisory and social-emotional learning (3 years), and drama elective courses (5 trimesters). * Helped lead the effort to create a new middle school advisory program and collaborate to plan and teach daily Advisory. * Coordinated yearlong interdisciplinary Capstone project for eighth grade and co-taught weekly class. * Assistant directed two middle school spring musicals. * Served as MS Logistics Coordinator (1 year) and MS Humanities lead (2 years), leading meetings, events, and planning. * Organized and led two eighth grade curricular service learning trips to Latin America and two extracurricular international summer trips for middle school students and parents.

Create all agendas, schedules, and plans for middle school events and meetings. Run weekly meetings for middle school leadership/administrative team and all middle school staff.

* Supervised 20 counselors and 200+ middle and high school students in four residences over two summer sessions. * Planned and supervised staff training, schedules, and trips. * Mediated and resolved staff conflicts and student medical and disciplinary issues.

* Teach two block classes of ninth grade advanced standing English, serving as an assistant teacher in one class and as the primary teacher in one class. * Work collaboratively with a veteran mentor teacher who provides daily training and feedback. * Conduct short- and long-term planning, designing daily lesson plans and segments and a unit plan. * Create formal and informal assessments to measure student learning. * Work with students on an individual basis to meet student needs and provide support. * Observe other veteran teachers from all subjects on a weekly basis.

* Team-taught one daily enrichment English class for rising sixth graders. * Collaborated to plan instruction and design assessments to monitor student learning. * Led daily small-group reading group discussions. * Received daily mentoring from a veteran teacher. * Observe other summer teachers from all subjects daily.

* Taught a weekly English conversation class at community-based language learning program for adult immigrants. * Designed and modified instruction to meet needs of 10-15 adult students with varying levels of oral proficiency.

* Taught undergraduate English major courses of 35-70 students in oral communication, literature, and writing. * Founded and ran a women’s leadership club for undergraduate English students. * Led a two-week teacher-training program for 150 middle school teachers in rural Chongqing. * Taught a weekly English enrichment class for seven 9-13-year-old English students. * Created an English resource library with grant funding. * Served as editor-in-chief for the Peace Corps China magazine The Rice Paper.

* Tracked and managed weekly and monthly marketing analytics data. * Researched and documented catalogue of 150 * editorial, speaking, and media opportunities. * Wrote blog posts, articles, and weekly newsletters for the editorial department. * Led a project creating 100 * sample trip plans for the product department. * Led company-wide social media engagement initiatives.

Taught math, critical reading, and writing skills to prepare high school students for the SAT. Alternated between tutoring individual students and teaching six-week classes to larger groups at high schools.

* Served as a Resident Assistant (R.A.) and Head Peer Academic Coordinator for 180 freshmen and sophomores. * Mentored residents, planned activities, and served as a role model in the residential community.

* Interviewed entertainers and producers and wrote 35+ news, feature, and short items for the magazine and website. * Updated story archives and helped create a new database of hundreds of publicists and press contacts.

Performed research and checked facts for news and feature articles.

* Wrote 14 news, feature, and business stories, took photographs, performed research, checked facts, edited, and conducted interviews. * Wrote a new intern handbook as a resource for future interns.

* Wrote humorous weekly columns about life as a college student. * Wrote feature articles based on interviews with students, faculty, and members of the community.

* Led the creation of an organizational change management plan, strategic communications plan, and stakeholder engagement tools to support a Department of Navy business process standardization and accountability project. * Created five standard operating procedure documents for Navy commands to use to enact business processes. * Solely conducted final look-and-feel quality check of all client deliverables. * Wrote weekly and monthly project status reports and attended frequent client meetings. * Wrote blog entries for the Multinational Forum, posted on the firm’s worldwide intranet home page.

* Courses taught: ninth grade Advanced Standing (AS)/College Prep (CP) English, tenth grade AS/CP English, advisory. * Plan and instruct heterogeneous classes of AS and CP English students together in one classroom. * Collaborate and co-facilitate weekly Advisory and English teaching team meetings to plan student instruction and curriculum, create assessments, and discuss student needs. * Create interdisciplinary humanities units with history teaching partner. * Advise Girl Up club for weekly meetings and special events focused on girls’ education in developing countries.

Coursework: English literature, European history and art, communications, creative writing, religion, and statistics. Study Abroad: Stanford-in-Oxford, Stanford-in-Berlin, Stanford Overseas Seminar in Geneva

Coursework: Curriculum and instruction in English, classroom management and leadership, teaching and learning in heterogeneous classrooms, adolescent development, educating for equity and democracy, literacies, language policies and practices, and supporting students with special needs. Ten months of student teaching with graduated responsibility.

Coursework: English language teaching, assessment, language acquisition, linguistics, and curriculum design.