QUALIFICATIONS
Established 26 years of success as a School Psychologist with key competencies focused in psycho-educational evaluations.. Effectively demonstrates sound leadership, training, and grant writing skills. Expertise in collaborating with teachers, parents, and outside agencies to meet student needs. Deeply committed to cultivating ongoing, professional development.
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS
⦁ National Certification in School Psychology
⦁ Florida Licensure-School Psychology
SKILLS & PROFICENCIES
⦁ Educational Psychology: Assessment, instruction, multi-disciplinary team evaluations Pre-K through high school, human learning, child growth and development, behavior analysis and modification, mental health, social/emotional/IQ/ASD, ADHD, Developmental measures, Gifted testing and special education staffing.
⦁ Organizational Skills: Scheduling, planning, setting priorities, coordinating multiple tasks, and time management.
⦁ Communication Skills: Proven ability to develop interpersonal relationships and work as part of a team.
⦁ Human Services: Crisis intervention, guidance, group/individual counseling, developing parent and family contacts, building networks and resources, liaison with outside agencies, and community outreach.
⦁ Cultural Integration: Experience working with multi-cultural populations as well as high and low socio-economic groups including homeless students.
⦁ Pro-Active Consulting: Accomplished skills consulting with school principals and teachers to continually assess specific population needs.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Programming
⦁ Teach 2nd Step classroom intervention and prevention curriculum.
⦁ Implement the Cogmed Working Memory Program with students.
⦁ Train psychologists, speech pathologists, and educational diagnosticians with the Battelle II Developmental Inventory and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-II (ADOS-II). Workshop on Cogmed Working Memory Training.
⦁ Teach workshops for divorcing parents on the Effects of Divorce on Children.
⦁ Provide supervision for psychologists seeking licensure.
⦁ Provide trainings on evaluation instruments for members of the Pre-K Team.
⦁ Co-chair the 2009 Florida Association of School Psychologists Annual Conference, Coach for Cogmed Working Memory Training..
⦁ Prepare grants for material and special projects.
⦁ Liaison between outside agencies and school personnel.
⦁ Serve as team leader for community schools assistance team providing classroom intervention for all levels (Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3), and special education/outside agency referrals.
⦁ Participant in pilot program “pay for performance” to establish salary based on achievement of yearly goals and objectives.
⦁ Developed special programs for homeless population including clothing and gift drives, counseling for students and assessing a wide variety of individual needs.
Assessment / Counseling
⦁ Successfully conduct social, emotional, cognitive and achievement evaluations using a variety of assessment tools ages 3 through college age.
⦁ Implement counseling and human services objectives for multiple socio-economically and culturally diverse elementary schools.
⦁ Supervise and train counseling interns at school; perform weekly consultations addressing student needs, treatment plans, and student grouping.
⦁ Provide individual student counseling and group counseling including crisis intervention, parent education, problem solving, enhancing self-esteem, goal setting, and behavior modification.
⦁ Consult with principals to assess population needs and work with teachers and parents to identify individual student needs and interventions.
⦁ Coordinate Special Education staffing.
EDUCATION
1996 M.A., Education Psychology, University of Colorado, Denver
1994 B.A., Psychology, Metropolitan State College, Denver
Additional Graduate Study
1999-2000 Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
Graduate Studies in Education and Psychology
WORK HISTORY
School Psychologist 1997-2001
Denver Public Schools
⦁ Psychology Intern 1996-1997
School Psychologist 2001- 2023
Pinellas County School Board
⦁ Pre- K Assessment Team 2003-2023
⦁ Admissions Diagnostic and Placement Team 2001-2002
School Psychologist
Family Psychological Services 2003-Present
St. Petersburg College - 2003 - 2018