1974 – 2001, South Grand Prairie High School Academies,
Grand Prairie, Dallas County, TX
(SGPHS was a 1999 New American High School Showcase Site and High Schools That Work mentor site)

  Faculty

        Department Chair, Career & Technology, 1992 – 2001

        Academy Vision Team, 1994-2001

        Keystone/Capstone Coordinator, 1995-2001

        Career & College Center Coordinator, 1999-2001
       Department Chair, Fine Arts, 1988 – 1992

 Teaching Areas

        Radio & TV Production, Broadcast Journalism, Media Literacy

        Media Technology, Digital Graphics Animation, Multimedia, Web Design

        Communications – Speech, Debate, Drama

        Academic Decathlon

        KEYSTONE -- 9th grade Freshman Success Class

        CAPSTONE -- 12th grade "Next Step" Transition Course

Adjunct Faculty, Speech Communications
1980 – 2001, Mountain View College, Dallas

Coaching/Consulting/Teacher Training
1999 – present: The Education Alliance at Brown University (Advisories, Personalized Teaching and Learning); Southern Regional Education Board’s  High Schools That Work (Smaller Learning Communities, Freshman Success, School Improvement, Coaching Reluctant Learners); The Center for Secondary School Redesign (Student-Led Conferences; Personalizing Classroom Instruction, Student Personalization Strategies); Performance Learning Systems (Smaller Learning Communities, Teaching ALL Students to Honors Level, Coaching Reluctant Learners); GMS Partners, Inc. (Senior Project, Freshman Success); Career Academy Support Network U.C. Berkeley (Smaller Learning Communities; Freshman and Senior Transitions); Small Schools Workshop (Advisories).

Smaller Learning Community and School Improvement Coaching and Training provided to:
Arkansas:  State Department of Workforce Ed; University of Arkansas – Fort Smith; and Bentonville, Cabot, Conway, Fayetteville, Hot Springs, Little Rock, Mountain Home, North Little Rock, Rogers, and Springdale.
Colorado: Arapahoe-Douglas, Otero, and San Juan Luis Junior Colleges; Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Cortez, Denver, Fort Collins, Loveland, Pueblo
Delaware: State Department of Education
Florida: Broward County, Duval County, Hillsborough County, Manatee County, Pinellas County, and Sarasota County
Georgia: Albany, Atlanta, DeKalb, Macon
Hawai`i: Kamehameha Schools, Kea`au; Kaua`i Public Schools, Lihue
Idaho: CASN Institutes for Smaller Learning Communities (Big Tent Idaho); Meridian
Illinois: Chicago Public Schools Demonstration High Schools; District 303, St. Charles; Joliet Township West; and Kelvyn Park, CPS.
Indiana: State Department of Education
Kansas: Desoto; Salina
Kentucky: Bowling Green, Daviess County, Nelson County
Louisiana: Layfayette, New Iberia
Maryland: State Department of Education (Potomac, Parkville, Glen Burnie, Lackey); Baltimore City Schools
Minnesota: St. Paul Public Schools
Missouri: Jefferson City
Montana: Willow Creek
Nebraska: Lincoln, Omaha
Nevada: Las Vegas
New Hampshire: Nashua, Prospect Mountain
New Mexico: Santa Fe
Oklahoma: Putnam City Schools, Oklahoma City; Yukon
Ohio: State Department of Education; Xenia
Oregon: Portland (Benson Tech); Salem-Keizer
Tennessee: Red Bank
Texas: Alvin, Arlington, Austin Region 13, Burleson, Clear Creek, Dallas, Grand Prairie, Harlingen, Highland Park, Houston, Laredo, Richardson Region 10, Tyler
Utah: Kaysville
Washington: Bonney Lake, Vancouver (Evergreen, Fort Vancouver, Heritage)
Wisconsin:  Appleton, Rice Lake
(Specific references and phone numbers available from above contracts.)

Curriculum Writing
1999 – present:
Advisory Curriculum for: The Education Alliance at Brown University, (The Power of Advisories); Putnam City Schools, Oklahoma City; Baltimore City Schools; and Kamehameha Schools, HI (Ke `Ano o Ka Liko Lehua).  Support Class and Freshman Success Curriculum for:  SREB High Schools That Work; Arkansas Department of Workforce Education; and South Grand Prairie High School. Work-based Learning Curriculum for:  GMS Partners; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Houston Independent School District.  Senior Project Curriculum for: Kamehameha Schools and Ohio State Department of Education – Tech Prep.
(Excerpts available for review.)

Presenter  
National and Regional Conferences include:
*Building Linkages, Salt Lake City
*California Partnership Academies
*Career Academy Institutes for Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
*Colorado Association for Secondary School Principals
*Connecting Classrooms Communities and Careers, Beaver Creek, CO
*High Schools That Work, SREB
*Kentucky Teaching and Learning Keynote Speaker
*National Career Academy Coalition
*Tech Prep – Ohio, Texas, Washington
(Presentation topics and references available from above list.)

  2002 Leadership Award, National Career Academy Coalition

  Twice selected as my high school’s outstanding teacher. 1982, 1990

  Named outstanding teacher for the city of Grand Prairie in 1991

  Outstanding Adjunct Faculty at Mountain View College in 1994-95

  Named by DFW-ABC (Dallas Ft. Worth Association of Black Communicators) as
    Texas Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1989 for work with minority students