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Skills

  • Special education
  • Business operations
  • Team building
  • Project organization
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Communications
  • Collaborative curriculum planning
  • Debate style differentiation (e.g., Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary)
  • Budget management for tournaments
  • Argument structuring and analysis

Work Experiences

  • Helped students gain confidence through careful instruction in Miscellaneous and the use of positive reinforcement strategies.
  • Aided teacher instruction by discussing concepts and creating custom practice questions.
  • Organized group tutoring sessions to assist students who were having similar problems.
  • Devised lesson plans to meet the objectives set forth in each student's individualized study plan.
  • Coached a 2-member debate team to achieve a 66% improvement in tournament performance over 2022.
  • Adjusted coaching techniques based on student feedback and learning styles leading to 14 top 3 individual placements in regional tournaments.
  • Achieved 9 top 3 individual placements in regional tournaments.
  • Assisted students in researching and structuring speeches, leading to a team-wide average increase of 48% in speaker points.
  • Bolstered fact check accuracy by 30%.
  • Kept track of students' progress in order to find ways to improve tutoring methods and assist students in achieving program objectives.

Summaries

  • Debate Coach with 14 years of successful team leadership and performance reporting experience.
  • Achieved a 82% increase in speaker points across the team.
  • Collaborative leader with a history of coordinating with faculty.
  • Debate Coach is a multi-talented Debate Coach who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.
  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the system business.
  • Boosted individual debater performance by 23%.
  • Achieved a 15% boost in speaker points.
  • Encourage students to develop their own skills to create a positive learning environment.
  • Costs were consistently reduced while profits were increased.
  • Specializes in one-on-one instruction, teamwork, and relationships with students, parents, and support staff.

Accomplishments

  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Presented end-of-season recaps to administration, demonstrating a 45% increase in student tournament involvement and performance year-over-year.
  • Achieved a 78% win ratio in debate tournaments by focusing on individualized student progression and continuous skill improvement.
  • Reduced logistical challenges for tournament travel by negotiating new travel contracts, saving the program $12 annually.
  • Judged and provided scoring for local, regional, and national debate tournaments, contributing to the professional development of 12 student competitors.
  • Developed a competitive debate strategy tailored to each opposing team, boosting win rates by 85% in regional tournaments.
  • Documented and resolved initiative which led to program.
  • Refined speech-writing workshops to focus on clarity and persuasion, which increased student self-reported confidence by 39%.
  • Established a peer mentor program within the team, increasing peer-to-peer learning and collaboration by 75%.
  • Standardized feedback and scoring for debate team members using a bespoke rubric, leading to measurable gains in speaker clarity by 28%.

Affiliations

  • National Debate Coaches Association (NDCA)
  • Co-chair at system Debate Education Development Initiative
  • American Marketing Association
  • Contributor at National Debate Education Conference 2018
  • Affiliate of Debate Out Loud, a nonprofit focused on youth public speaking skills
  • Society for Education through Debate
  • American Forensic Association (AFA)
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Founder of Seattle Debate Coach Consortium
  • Judge in regional Phoenix school debate tournaments

Certifications

  • SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
  • Certified Argumentation Educator (International Debate Education Association)
  • Team Motivation and Group Dynamics Certification (Vantage)
  • Online and Remote Learning Training Certification (metric)
  • Critical Thinking and Argumentation in Education Certificate (metric)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • Pedagogy and Debate Teaching License (Massachusetts, 2015)
  • ServSafe
  • Advanced Persuasion Skills Certification (Persuasion Methods Academy)
  • Coaching Excellence Certification (Society of Professional Debaters)

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