Alexandra Cardenas

• Worked towards PYP accreditation
• Concept-based inquiry lessons
• Communicated frequently with parents, students, and faculty to provide feedback, use data, and discuss instructional strategies.
• Incorporated multiple types of teaching strategies into classroom.

• Support the creation of detailed, technical, and differentiated education plans, accommodations, and modifications for students with special needs (highly able and/or with learning differences) in private/international schools.
• Psychoeducational therapist.

• Coached teachers to improve practices through professional development and modeling instructional strategies.
• Modeled concept-based inquiry lessons.
• Developed staff members' attitudes, skills and knowledge through various professional development targeted topics.
• Met diverse student population needs by planning and implementing lessons with wide variety of teaching strategies.

• Ecuador's representative in the Transforming Education Summit United Nations, New York, 2022.
• Assessment and solutions for post pandemic educational crisis.

Coordinated the delivery of effective and differentiated classroom instruction in Early Childhood, Elementary School, and Secondary School.

• Created and managed IEPs and ILPs to define students learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
• Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment.
• Created accommodations for core subjects for teachers from across academic departments.
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
• Created, collected, and recorded data on student progress to determine next steps for student success.
• Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
• Honored confidentiality to safeguard students' private information.

• Shifted between case studies and formal methods of teaching to create multi-layered web of learning incorporating student-teaching, practical activities, discussions, and projects into lessons.
• Developed and taught undergraduate courses in Education Department.

• Fostered a spirit of innovation throughout the organization by encouraging creative problem-solving and empowering employees to take calculated risks.
• Served as tireless school resource, which enabled development of lasting relationships with students, parents, and guardians.
• Oversaw budget, marketing and curriculum development for school operations.
• Improved employee retention rates with focused professional development initiatives and comprehensive benefits packages.

• Employed variety of teaching strategies and instructional techniques to meet different aptitudes and interests of students.
• Taught global citizen skills using real-world, application-based examples to maximize learning opportunities.
• Maintained accurate records of student progress, attendance, and behavior to facilitate ongoing communication with parents about their child''s educational journey.

• Elementary school, sixth grade, homeroom teacher

• Reviewed individual department performance and worked with leadership to improve processes, procedures, and practices.
• Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate, and support sustainability objectives.
• Accommodated general education curriculum for students' needs associated or not to disabilities using various instructional techniques.
• Built a positive organizational culture that fostered creativity, innovation, and employee engagement.
• Created early intervention program for newborn Down´s syndrome children in PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit)
• Spearheaded marketing initiatives that effectively communicated brand value propositions, resulting in higher customer rates.