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A highly qualified educator/leader with more than ten years of experience. Experienced in developing and implementing new opportunities for student engagement through curriculum development, staff development, and administrative support. Impact-driven, forward-thinking, passionate about instilling lifelong learning to improve the vertical mobility of children and youth in SSA and conflict regions. |
 Contact Blene Betemariam
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Professional Experience: |
Provide professional development training for in-service teachers to help create a culture of continuous improvement in their teaching and learning experiences.
• Developed a mobile application-based tool to help teachers gauge their performance, track progression, provide feedback and maintain a portfolio.
• Global mentoring and coaching to develop the expertise, knowledge, and motivation of teachers working in conflict areas in Kakuma refugee camp, Kalobeyei settlement in Kenya, and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
• Promoted investigative social-emotional learning and brain-based learning strategies that emphasized independent thinking.
Develop youth advocacy programs that promote community involvement, partnerships, engagement, creating opportunities to encourage innovative solutions and leadership skills.
• Focused on transferable skill development strategies to promote students’ success.
Provided technical support in assessing environmental and health impacts on funding through insightful program evaluations. Responsible for conducting challenging research to support grant proposal requests.
• Coordinated focused group discussion in rural Ethiopia to gather information about the gap in the health services and mobilized community-based planning and monitoring activities.
• Expand quality improvement action plan to promote community-based partnerships.
Supervised and managed a team of environmental scientists engaged in compliance work for EPA’s hazardous toxic waste removal, remediation, and mitigation contract.
• Monitored compliance indicators, provided technical assistance to ensure compliance and generated reports.
• Revised the Standard Operating Procedures to meet Quality Assurance/Quality Control requirements.
• Responsible for coordinating quality control and quality assurance efforts to meet contractual requirements.
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Education: |
Doctor of Education, Lynn University,
Boca Raton, Florida. GPA 3.97
T R A I N I N G S
Education Policy, Leadership, Curriculum, Action Research, Qualitative and Quantitative Research, Social Psychological and Philosophical issues, Program Evaluation, Budgeting and Funding, Student Motivation and Cognition (Social, Emotional Learning), Multicultural Organization, Comparative Education, and Global Perspective, Diagnosis of Professional Performance and Feedback, First Aid, Crisis readiness and management.
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Professional Memberships: National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD and FASCD); The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), The Comparative and International Education Society, Education, Conflict & Emergencies SIG, Youth Development and Education SIG.
Publication: Generating Evidence – The evaluation of the teacher continuous professional development framework, in the case of Ethiopia.
Website: chelota.academy
T E C H N I C A L
S K I L L S
Microsoft products (Word, Excel Access, Publishing) Infographics, Focus Group Discussion, Quality Assurance/Control, Data Analysis, QuickBooks.
Certifications: Resource management, Teaching Biology 6-12,
Earth Science 6 – 12,
Chemistry 6- 12, Next Generation Science, Project 2061, Diagnosis of Professional Performance and Feedback.
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Years of Experience:
5-10 years |
Highest Qualification:
Doctorate |
Languages:
English, Amharic |
Nationality:
United States
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