Educational sales consultant

Posted on: 2009-08-28

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Macmillan McGraw-Hill, Desoto, TX 2006-2009 Sales Consultant Created and conducted sales presentations and in-service workshops for national math and reading curriculums • Actively involved in creating sales presentations and in-services for the McGraw-Hill PreK-12 Texas Mathematics program for public school teachers throughout the state of Texas • Actively involved in creating professional development workshops for content area reading, assessment, reading comprehension, technology, use of graphic organizers, the use of literature in math, Pre-K mathematics, and intervention strategies to enhance teaching performance for public school teachers throughout the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana • Presented workshops at regional professional conferences, such as Louisiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Texas Association for Bilingual Education, Rio Grande Valley Council of Teachers of Mathematics that inspired teachers and gave them new ideas to use in their classrooms to achieve student success • Gave successful sales presentations, answered questions, created curriculum correlations to state standards helping to influence the outcome of winning adoptions, resulting in the territory making 89% of goal • Supported the sales team resulting in a South Texas sales campaign that came in at 186% • Collaborated with a team of sales consultants and sales representatives to achieve 89% of our sales goal of $172 million Parish Episcopal School, Dallas, TX 1995-2006 Teacher Taught elementary and middle school math in a nationally recognized Blue Ribbon School • Taught over 500 students who consistently achieved the highest middle school math test scores • Coordinated 7 teachers in the math department grades 3-9 • Mentored teachers new to the curriculum and to the school to enhance performance and consistency • Selected to be a member of a technology team that reviewed existing software and trained teachers to incorporate the use of the software into their lessons • Administrative experience working on scheduling committees, scheduling blocks of teaching time as well as placing students into classes . Presented workshops at national and regional professional conferences, such as National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and Independent Schools Association of the Southwest that inspired teachers and gave them new ideas to use in their classrooms to achieve student success • Member of an accreditation team that visited an independent school in San Antonio to study its educational program and determine if its application for reaccreditation should be granted with a specific focus on math Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., Hauppauge, NY 2002-2006 Reviewer/Author Evaluated manuscripts for a national publisher of educational materials • Reviewed a series of home study textbooks that were sold to parents who home-schooled their children • Wrote a spelling workbook and reading workbook for 2nd grade students to use at home for enrichment that were distributed in bookstores throughout the United States, such as Borders and Barnes and Noble, as well as to bookstores overseas SRA/McGraw-Hill, Chicago, IL 1998-2006 Consultant Consultant for a national elementary mathematics curriculum • Conducted workshops for users of the Everyday Math Curriculum throughout the United States that enhanced their teaching experience and helped to increase students’ understanding of math as well as state math scores • Created and facilitated an online assessment course to help teachers using Everyday Math better assess their students’ knowledge of the curriculum ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Teacher, Theodor Herzl Jewish Day School, Denver, CO Teacher, Discovery Learning Center, Parker, CO Teacher, The Open School, Laramie, WY EDUCATION Master of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Major: Early Childhood Education Bachelor of Science, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC Major: Early Childhood Education