Richard E. Peterson

• Plan and schedule all testing to keep students on track for graduation. Working closely with special education department and the ESOL department to insure accuracy of all accomodations in Sea-Stars and ELPH
• Enhanced testing efficiency by streamlining test coordination processes and procedures.
• Scheduled Testing to maximize participation and minimize loss of instruction. Increased communication to all stakeholders in an effort to improve overall participation. Increased WIDA completion rate from 50% before I started the position to 97% in two years.
• Increased communication with staff and students about testing.
• Worked with a testing team to develop a new SOL schedule to allow time for teachers to remediate students prior to testing. Provided a structured transition that included seating charts for students, which was communicated to students prior to testing. Transition time was cut to approximately 15 minutes, even in our larger testing area of 250+ students.
• Work with ESOL department to develop a structure for identify which students would benefit form multiple day testing based on their ML level. This new identification process saw a 95% pass rate.
• Provide in pearson as well as self paced video training for staff for testing, collecting and managing all documents for testing.

• Focused on Chronic absenteeism and tiered interventions.
• Worked closely with administration to identify students struggling to get to school and or classes.
• Served as a liaison between students, parents, faculty, and administration to facilitate communication and resolve attendance issues.
• Promoted a positive campus culture by fostering collaboration among faculty, staff, and students.
• Worked with other Deans in developing an attendance CT, where we worked with students to improve attendance. We identified these students analyzing attendance data on a daily bases. Students rotated in and out during the school year with the goal of helping 5 to 8 students per quarter.

• Taught AP Calculus, Ap Stats, Geometry and Algebra I.
• Developed a analytical tool to break down common assessments by SOL curriculum and strands and by teacher. Using this information for the CT team to improve instruction.
• Algebra I CT lead, worked with team to develop common assessments making sure to evaluate the curriculum in a fair and consistent maner.

• Taught Algebra I and Geometry, and dual enrollment Math class.
• New teacher Mentor.
• Developed all assessments with team aligning assessments to curriculum.
• Robotics coach, working with students to build a robot to compete in state wide competitions. The robot was designed per set guidelines to meet certain tasks.

Taught remedial Math, this class is designed to improve basic math skills for students to be successful in college.

• Lead credit recovery teacher, developing curriculum in Compass learning for credit recovery in all subjects.
• PBIS trained, and implemented a tier two intervention with staff and students to improve attendance.

• Develop schedule for classes based on enrolment, staffing for classes, handle budget and acquire supplies for staff. Handled all disciple.

• Math Teacher for night school Alternative education program Geometry.

• Math Teacher for night school Alternative education Math.