Resume | paul-lister-iii

Administrative Experience

2018-2020 Atlanta Public Schools- Morningside Elementary

Assistant Principal

Implemented Restorative Discipline resulting in the lowest suspension rate in 5 years.
Coached teachers for effectiveness resulting in student growth in targeted areas on Milestones.
Achieved double-digit gains on Milestones for the sub group of African-Americans through culturally responsive teaching, focused data-tracking, parent phone calls, and emails.

2016-2018 Houston Independent School District- Valley West Elementary

Bilingual Assistant Principal

Trained 20 teachers on how to prevent and de-escalate students presenting threatening or dangerous behavior as part of my CPI certification.
Monitored and motivated parents to increase home use of Imagine Math software from 20 to 97% in a month’s time
Effectively coached 3rd grade team to move from lowest to highest performing grade level on STAAR by focusing on three tiers of support to boost Mastery performance level on state assessment (88% or better)
Appraised and coached 28 teachers resulting in an increase of teacher effectiveness. Supported three teachers on a prescriptive plan for growth.
Reduced suspensions by 20% by implementing positive behavior tracking using Kickboard software.
Improved campus culture by providing weekly shout outs to celebrate teacher’s efforts, growth, and achievements as measured by faculty e-survey.
Trained parents on how to conduct fluency probes and encouraged weekly volunteering to improve class fluency rates by 50% in 3 months.

2015 -2016 Houston Independent School District- Bonham Elementary

Bilingual Instructional Specialist

Managed the Accelerated Reading program for over 1150 students, including training 50 staff and program monitoring resulting in improved campus culture towards literacy and doubling the number of books being read by the school.
Appraised and coached twelve teachers in the teacher appraisal system. Created and documented support for teachers on a prescriptive plan for growth.
Increased attendance percentage by motivating students with high-demand incentives.
Evaluated effectiveness of i-station implementation and reported monthly to the leadership team, resulting in focused literacy instruction targeting below grade level students resulting in an increase of 80 on-grade level students.
Created an original website documenting my administrative literacy project and evaluated its effectiveness.
Increased student self-esteem by demonstrating how to be successful with online literacy programs.
Increased home use of literacy and math online programs by using incentives, parent notification letters, and publicity of student achievement awards.
Increased campus funds by identifying more gifted and talented students in my role as GT coordinator.
Served as the Spanish language formal translator for ARD and other parent meetings.
Increased efficiency in school systems by creating digital documents to replace handwritten discipline referral forms in my role as the technology liaison. This included posting to the schools Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Managed PLC meetings for lower elementary grades in math and reading. Held teachers accountable for backwards planning, documenting intervention efforts, and held data chats.

Teaching Experience

2007-2015 Houston ISD- Houston area elementary schools

2013-2015 Marshall Elementary- 2nd/3rd grade bilingual teacher

Accepted the challenge to work at a turn-around campus from the North Forest School District which was closed by the state of Texas Education board.
Managed intervention team of teachers resulting in STAAR reading scores to increase by 18 points. Furthermore, data driven instruction resulted in well above average Iowa scores both years, on average two grade levels above.

2012-2013 Durham Elementary 5th grade ESL

2007-2011 Stevenson Elementary 2nd/3rd grade bilingual teacher

Other Related Experiences

2004- 2006 University of Houston Houston, Texas

Graduate Assistant, Teaching Fellowship

Appraised undergraduate future teachers during their student teaching internship

2011- 2012 Education First EF kids and teens center Beijing, China

Beijing Regional Instructional Coach/Marketing Teacher

Represented the face of EF Beijing, taught model lessons to perspective clients to increase student enrollment at all Beijing EF schools. Exceeded previously set enrollment expectations. Mentored all new teachers at Beijing school #3. Collaborated with managers, support staff, and parents in a different culture successfully.

2009, 2011 Lengua Senza Frontiere Parma/Milan/Tuscany, Italy English summer camp Instructor/ Team Leader

Professional Development

Kick-Board program trainer (a positive behavior documentation tool online)
Implicit Bias training
Orton-Gillingham Reading Approach Trained
Fuel Ed empathy training
Literacy Summit presenter for HISD bilingual teachers
Steven Covey- 7 habits of happy children: Leader in Me
Data driven classroom: best practices for tracking student data

Professional Licenses

Texas Principal Certificate
Georgia Principal Certification
ESOL K-12 Certified
Bilingual Spanish Early Childhood- 6th grade
Spanish K-12 Certified

Other Certification and Awards

Certified trainer of trainers for non-violent crisis prevention intervention
Scholarship recipient for the highly selective HISD MBA program at University of St. Thomas
Testing coordinator certified 2015 (Logramos, Iowa, NNAT, GT)
Teacher of the year nominee 2012, 2013, 2014
TELPAS ELL certified rater for listening, speaking, writing, and reading for 2007-2015
Business English course certification from International TEFL Corporation in 2010

Education

2013 -2015 University of St. Thomas Houston, TX

Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Education, GPA 3.74

2004 – 2006 University of Houston Houston, TX

Master of Education in Bilingual Education, GPA 3.74

2000 - 2004 University of Buffalo Buffalo, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, Cum Laude