Teaching

During the 2012 - 2013 school year I led two groups of fourth and fifth grade boys respectively through BAM! Curriculum in conjunction with Duluth Public Schools and Men As Peacemakers. Boys as mentors program, building social and emotional skills, supporting positive relationships and recruiting volunteers to serve as positive male role models. I addition to leading weekly meetings and activities over lunch I:

• Organized and executed an overnight retreat to Camp Amnicon in northern Wisconsin to promote team building, personal self reflection and goal setting
• Organized a beach cleanup to promote community involvement and service
• Arranged a Skype meeting with a prominent video game critic who really emphasized the career freedom resulting from rudimentary self discipline and language skills.
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For more information on the Boys As Mentors! program: https://bamgroups.com/index.html

Men As Peacemakers: https://www.menaspeacemakers.org/

During the summer of 2013 I acted as assistant teacher for The Laura MacArthur eElementary School Summer Enrichment program through the month of June and acted as assistant teacher for the districts sponsored LEAP program July-August.

Under the supervision of Bernie B. Burnham, then data coach at Laura MacArthur Elementary School in Duluth MN, acted as student success advocate maintaining daily interventions with caseload of 19 fifth graders to support reading and math skills one on one.

• Volunteer coordinator for Laura MacArthur Elementary School
• Valley Youth Center volunteer
• Co-led and coordinated recreation and leisure activities for all students at Laura MacArthur Elementary on a bi-weekly rotating basis