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My job duties include counseling students in special education who have emotional, behavioral, or social issues; developing, implementing, and reviewing Functional Behavioral Assessments and Positive Behavior Support Plans; developing Individual Education Plans and participating in initial and three year special education evaluations; conducting social developmental, emotional, and behavioral assessments; and collaborating with teachers, administrators, parents, outside professionals to enhance students' educational experience and academic success.

 

Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes was able to reach over 52,000 students in the 2008-2009 School Year. The Grand Rapids Service Office offers classroom programs, JA Job Shadows and JA Reverse Job Shadows to the Greater Grand Rapids Area. Our programs help prepare young people for the real world by teaching them about, financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreunership.

My position manages the Grand Rapids Education Team in order to provide premium programs and volunteers to local West Michigan schools subscribing to JA Progams. I have taught over 35 JA programs at area elementary, middle and high schools and continue to teach our programs in order to better understand our volunteers as well as the educators subscribing to JA programs.

 

I currently work on a team of 10 recruiters to help attract key talent into the organization. In my position, I manage the Talent Relationship Management System and assist with the hiring for our corporate service center.  Last year, NHA hired nearly 600 teachers across the country to serve Kindergarten through 8th grade students in six different states: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, New York, and Colorado.  As you can imagine, we do a lot of hiring and it is a very fast paced and exciting environment.

 

As a business analyst I work with 8 different schools to make sure that they stay on budget, report to the state about whatever they require i.e. count of children, etc. as well as answer any questions that the principal's might have. As a grant accountant, I track the grant spending and income and report to the grantors.

 

I am teaching half day kindergarten in Spanish to mostly White students which will help them become builingual in the future, speaking and reading spanish as any native speaker would.