Erin Ruegg 215 E McKinley St, #403
[email protected] Phoenix, Arizona, 85004 612-356-4670 _____________________Education Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Masters of Education, Special Studies. May 2011 Hamline University, St. Paul, MN; Completed M.A.T. course work; K-8, 5-8 Math Specialty. 2002 – 2003 Grinnell College Grinnell, IA; Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, May 1997 Grinnell-in-London Semester abroad program. Studied art history, and racism in Great Britain. _____________________Notable Accomplishments National Board Certified Earned the highest U.S. certification for English as a New Language teachers. November 9th, 2007 Mentor prospective teachers and counselors in Colombia. 2007 - present Fluent Spanish Speaker Lead weekly professional development workshops, observed and modeled lessons; wrote weekly newsletters, conducted parent-teacher conferences; organized and coordinated service learning projects in Spanish. 2005-2010 Presenter at Annual International Educators’ Conferences Tri-Association of American Schools of Central America, Colombia-Caribbean and Mexico, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 2008 Association of American Schools in South America, Bogota, Colombia, March, 2009. Selected twice from over 200 proposals to present to school leaders across Latin America on theory and reflective practices of authentic assessment in elementary classrooms. _____________________Leadership Highlights Senior Literacy Coach for Word Generation Strategic Education Research Project (SERP) at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011- present Lead a team of five literacy coaches in four school districts across Massachusetts and in Baltimore to direct and support the implementation of Word Generation, a program to develop academic vocabulary and oral and written argumentative reasoning skills in urban schools. The five-year random control study, Catalyzing Comprehension through Discussion and Debate, is funded by a 20 million dollar federal I.E.S.