Louis Wallace

Even though I'm still working with school age children during the day, I've found teaching the Menfis staff of teachers and support staff has been much more effective, efficient, enjoyable, and especially productive.

They have easily understood my grammar based methodical and process driven strategy that has produced the highest level of development and tangible concrete results for many years among many different languages in California. Once you have " buy in" and they're sold on your approach, the sky's the limit. My approach smoothly crosses into Writer's Workshop and all areas of Language Arts as well.

Finally my level of Spanish speaking is proficient enough ( not entirely fluent yet, but improving each day in Colombia ) to provide that " bridge" and cross the language barrier most important when moving from emergent into proficiency themselves. ( BICS to CALPS .)

In sum, when I'm not busy now managing classroom behavior ( harder as a volunteer than full-time teacher ) I've found instructional minutes aren't wasted, and I can return back to maximizing instruction and efficiency at the highest level.

Throughout my entire career, students have shown two, four, and six years of language growth in a single year of instruction. I truly see the same results here as well in this setting.

• Enhanced student comprehension by incorporating diverse teaching methods and strategies.
• Led after-school tutoring sessions for students needing additional assistance with coursework or test preparation.
• Organized school-wide events such as field trips, guest speakers, and extracurricular clubs to enrich the educational experience for all students.
• Developed strong relationships with students, parents, and colleagues to create a supportive learning environment.

• Conducted small group and individual classroom activities based on differentiated learning needs
• Helped prepare daily lesson plans for activities and lessons
• Encouraged students to be understanding of and helpful to others
• Physically and verbally interacted with students throughout the day to keep them engaged
• Supplied one-on-one attention to each student, while maintaining overall focus on the entire group
• Provided many extra-curricular activities which motivated students in their academics as well

• Company Overview: Continually the top scoring Title 1 school in the district
• 1998 HP2 school
• ( High Poverty High Performing )
• Photo on the front page of The Sacramento Bee demonstrating a highly engaging grammar lesson
• Initiated an extended day class for lowest performing students
• Continually the top scoring Title 1 school in the district

• Applied the positive reinforcement method to redirect negative behaviors
• Helped prepare daily lesson plans for activities and lessons
• Encouraged students to be understanding of and helpful to others
• Wrote daily and weekly lesson plans