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Educator, Administrator, Curriculum Facilitator,
and Instructional Coach
!Is committed to maximizing the potential and achievement of every educator and child through innovative
leadership and teaching. Is dedicated to providing a responsive, collegial environment – one that is risk-
free, that nurtures and fosters growth in all curricular areas in order to prepare every teacher and
student for the rigorous demands of the 21st Century. Compelled to equip educators with research-
based instructional strategies that gird the learner with critical thinking and learning strategies that
champion persistence, flexibility, and independence. Driven to motivate and inspire teachers to cause
learning for all students so that they are globally prepared for higher educational experiences or any
marketplace.
!Areas of Leadership Include the Following:
!Facilitator of Curriculum ~ Professional Learning Community Facilitator for all School-Level Teams ~
Schoolnet District-Level Certified Trainer ~ Teaching and Learning Team Facilitator ~ Member of NC Read
to Achieve Portfolio Task Force, NCDPI ~ Presenter, NC Blended Learning Symposium ~ Presenter, STEAM
Institute ~ Advisor, Student Lighthouse Leadership Team ~ Director, Teacher Tech ~ Facilitator, Parent
University ~ AIG Advisory Team Member ~ Emerging Leaders Team Member ~ School Improvement Team
Member ~ State-Level Master Literacy Trainer, NCDPI, 2015-2016 ~ Co-Presenter, SIOP, 2015 ~
Presenter, NCMLE Conference, 2015 and 2016 (Pre-conference Keynote Speaker) ~ Project CRISS District
and School-Level Trainer ~ Lead Presenter in Summer, 2012 CRISS Level I Training for all District
Administrators in Surry County Schools ~ Kagan Cooperative Learning Trainer ~ Differentiated Instruction
Trainer ~ Summer Technology Conference Presenter, 2011-2014 ~ Common Core ELA Textbook Adoption
Committee for State, District, and School ~ Race to the Top Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation
Project, 2010-2013 ~ Former Teacher of the Year, 2008
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Education and Credentials
Bachelor of Arts (1990); Major: Elementary Childhood Education, K-8
Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina
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Master’s of Educational Leadership (2016) - MEd, High Point University, High Point, North Carolina -
Graduated with distinction, Summa Cum Laude
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Mrs. Lee T. Hunter
2158 Elizabeth Drive
Mount Airy, NC 27030
Cell: 336-429-1887
Email: lhunter@mtairy.k12.nc.us
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!Doctor of Educational Leadership (Expected Graduation in 2020) - EdD, High Point University, High
Point, North Carolina
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Professional Organizations
• Member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International — Inducted April 8, 2016
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State of North Carolina Teaching License (Grades K-6)
07/01/2011 - 06/30/2016
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State of North Carolina Principal’s License
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Recent Professional Development
Curriculum Instruction and Instructional Coaching ~ NC FALCON: Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy, Learning
Targets, and Formative Assessments ~ Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports ~ Haiku Learning
Management System ~ NC Teacher Evaluation Process/Instrument ~ Ella Baker Child Policy Training
Institute, CDF Freedom Schools ~ June National Training, CDF Freedom Schools, 2013-2014 ~
Professional Learning Communities at Work Institute with the DuFours ~ Home Base -IIS Schoolnet
District-Level Train the Trainer Certification ~ Facilitative Leadership ~ Instructional Coaching for Better
Teaching with Dr. Raymond Jones, University of Virginia~ A School Leader’s Guide to Literacy Success in
the World of Common Core Standards, Learning Focused with Dr. Max Thompson, United States
Department of Education ~ STEAM Education ~ Engaging NC in 21st Century Teaching and Learning ~
Balanced Literacy ~ Problem-Based Learning, Wake Forest University and UT Dallas ~ NCPAPA School Law
for School Administrators ~ Master Literacy Training with Carolyn Guthrie, NCDPI, 2015-2016 ~ Fluency
Research, Assessment, and Intervention for Grades K-12 with Dr. Wayne Foster, Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools, CPI Nonviolent Crisis Prevention and Intervention Certification
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ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
!Jones Intermediate School, Mount Airy City Schools
Curriculum Facilitator/Assistant Principal 6/2013 - Present
!Provide Common Core aligned resources as well as job-embedded professional development opportunities
for staff members utilizing empirical instructional strategies to increase student achievement. Assist the
Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction in fulfilling the vision of sound student-driven/data-driven
instruction. Serve as PLC facilitator for all on-site Professional Learning Communities. Serve as “push-in”
for Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade classes during Guided Reading Groups. Model intentional, purposeful
planning with all grade-levels during extended planning sessions provided by administration. Create and
teach model lessons implementing district initiatives including The Leader in Me, Professional Learning
Communities, Balanced Literacy, Problem-Based Learning, and Learning Focused in all classrooms.
Conduct frequent informal observations to determine teachers’ instructional strengths and weaknesses.
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!Provide immediate descriptive feedback with aligned resources and strategies crafted to meet each
instructor’s specific need to demonstrate professional growth. Serve as Testing Coordinator for school-level
testing. Develop testing plan for district and state-level tests including benchmarks, alternative
assessments, the NC RtA Portfolio, as well as End-of-Grade testing for grades 3-5. Responsible for data
analyses and response to intervention. Consultant for Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School. Institute
!!and direct the Read to Achieve Summer Reading Camp for Mount Airy City Schools as deemed by NC Read
to Achieve legislation. Mentor new primary school Curriculum Facilitator, 2014-2015. Mentor staff
members with Monitored Professional Development Plans. Serve as LEA in IEP meetings. Provide support
with discipline issues. Work with principal and School Improvement Team to craft policies and processes.
!!Read to Achieve Summer Reading Camp , Mount Airy City Schools 6/2014-8/2014
Director 6/2015-8/2015
6/2016-7/2016
!Design a curriculum for the Read to Achieve summer campers that ensures that research-based strategies
are used. Hire a highly-qualified staff that will differentiate instruction for students in order to meet each
child at point of need. Train teachers and instructional support staff on the use of a district wide
curriculum and interventions. Assist in the design and implementation of standards based lesson plans
that emphasize comprehension, critical thinking, and analysis skills. Integrate technology into
expectation, planning, and practice. Serve as testing director for Read to Achieve Assessment at camp’s
completion. Analyze data to inform program planning.
!!TEACHING EXPERIENCE
!Jones Intermediate School - Mount Airy City Schools 6/2016-7/2016
Summer School Coordinator and Teacher
!Recruit highly effective teachers to staff the program. Select and order necessary instructional materials
for each needs-based group. Create instructional schedule as well as lead daily lesson planning and data
analysis sessions with team members. Focus on continuous improvement to ensure increase in student
growth and proficiency in ELA and mathematics.
!!CDF Freedom School, Mount Airy City Schools 3/2013 - 7/2013
Site Coordinator 3/2014 - 7/2014
!Managed the day-to-day activities of the Freedom School Site at Jones Intermediate School. Ensured that
servant leader interns have necessary materials and supplies to effectively cause learning for each scholar.
Provided guidance, support, encouragement, and constructive feedback to servant leader interns.
Maintained team spirit among site staff and conduct daily debrief sessions. During debrief, provided
technical assistance and feedback to interns on all aspects of their work. Recruited and scheduled guest
readers as well as presenters for enrichment activities and scheduled all field trips and experiential
activities for the site.
!!!Jones Intermediate School - Mount Airy, North Carolina 11/2012 - 6/2013
Fifth Grade Team Teacher
!Served as a Mathematics/Social Studies teacher with two classes consisting of 24 and 21 students
respectively, heterogeneously grouped. Conducted a professional development session for all Jones
instructional staff members focusing upon the intentional planning of and preparation for mandatory
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!engagement activities including Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures as well as Project CRISS learning
strategies. Planned weekly with grade-level members to share research-based instructional strategies that
cause learning for all students. Attended grade-level PLCs. Used common formative and summative
assessment data to drive instruction and to provide effective skills-based reteaching and remediation.
Conducted weekly tutoring sessions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8:00 - 8:40 a.m. Conducted
tutoring sessions on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 7:15 - 7:45 a.m. prior to school. Conducted
!!an intensive tutoring group every Wednesday afternoon from 2:20 - 4:10 p.m. consisting of approximately
14 students including all 21st Century students who qualify.
!!Flat Rock Elementary School – Mount Airy, North Carolina
Fourth Grade Teacher 6/2006-11/2012
First Grade Teacher 10/2005- 6/2006
!Served as a self-contained classroom teacher with 25 students, heterogeneously grouped. Created weekly
lesson plans that reflected North Carolina Standard Course of Study/Common Core Essential Standards
and acknowledged and incorporated the strands of the NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument. The plans
included CRISS, Kagan, Thinking Maps, and Marzano Vocabulary instructional strategies for the Fourth
Grade Team. Embedded SMART Notebook activities in lesson plans to maximum student engagement and
motivation. Updated grade-level Haiku with current learning targets and intentional purposeful lesson
plans and instructional strategies that ensure rigor, relevance, and authenticity. Became the classroom
facilitator as students accessed the Haiku Exemplar Lesson Plans that melded independent reading of
increasingly complex text with 21st Century technologies using 1:1 mini-laptops. Additional
responsibilities included advising, modeling, and coaching all instructional staff members as the school-
based CRISS trainer. Lead monthly staff development sessions: CRISS Focus. Tutored At-Risk students a
of two days weekly from 2:00 – 4:30. Collaborated with grade-level as well as vertical Professional
Learning Communities.
!!Sixes Elementary School – Canton, Georgia
Third Grade Teacher 1/2004 – 6/2005
Early Intervention Teacher, K-6
!Specialized in instruction for At-Risk Students. Integrated extensive use of current technology with class
sets of mobile laptop computers and instructional software in order to enhance and facilitate student
learning. Completed the Georgia INtegrating TECHnology Professional Development Program - 50
hours of elementary school training - as required by the Georgia Department of Education, November,
2004. Instructed Extended Day Program classes for Third and Fifth Grades. Instructed After School
Program classes for Second and Third Grades.
!!Chester Park Intermediate School - Chester, South Carolina 8/1993-6/1995
Fourth Grade Teacher
!Instructed students in a self-contained classroom. Served as Unit Chairperson and Fourth Grade
Chairperson. Served as Fourth Grade Representative for the Discipline Committee.
!!Southside Elementary and Dora Jones/Gayle Elementary Schools -
Chester, South Carolina
Fourth Grade Teacher 8/1990-6/1993
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!Instructed students in a self-contained classroom. Tutored students in math and reading. Mentored At-
Risk students. Served as a model classroom for the South Carolina Program for Effective Teaching (PET)
in Chester County Schools.
!!!TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATIONS and PROFICIENCIES
!Attended the NCTIES Conference, Raleigh, NC - March, 2012
Presenter at District Technology Conferences - 2011, 2012, 2013
Presenter, STEAM Institute, MACS - 2014, 2015
!SMART Notebook ~ SMARTBoard ~ SMART Response/Senteo ~ Document Camera ~ MacBook ~ iPod/iPad
~ iPad with instructional applications ~ Web 2.0 Tools ~ Haiku Learning Management System ~ Schoology
Learning Management System ~ Wiki ~ Blogger ~ Skype ~ Google Chromebooks and Applications ~
Google Docs ~ Google Classroom ~ PowerSchool ~ Schoolnet
Social Media Outlets including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram