1. Meg Goad, M.A.
6805 Alpine Currant View Apt 111, Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(Moving to Puyallup, Washington June 2015)
Cell (719) 213-9618
I am seeking a position that allows me to utilize my skills in teaching,
presentation, and counseling to support individuals in reaching their career or
academic goals. I desire to continue to be part of a creative, collaborative,
supportive, problem-solving team.
Employment History:
Falcon Virtual Academy (RtI Coordinator) – 7/11- present
Vista Ridge High School (RtI Coordinator/English teacher) 8/09 – 7/11
Falcon Middle School 8/05 – 7/09
Licensed Professional Counselor in Private Practice 8/00 – 8/05
Professional Counselor at Family Life Services 8/98 – 8/00
Counseling Skills
-Designed and implemented a Response to Intervention program that provided
academic and social emotional interventions for students as needed (8 yrs)
-Lead individual and group meetings for students dealing with social/emotional
issues (1 yr)
-Member of the Behavior Intervention Team (4 yrs)
-Taught Emotional Regulation Skills class to middle and high school students (1 yr)
-Taught Emotional Regulation Skills class to adults (3 yrs)
-Connected families to wrap around services (3 yrs)
-Presented facility-wide behavior and social emotional training for staff (2 yrs)
-Taught Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills to adults and teens (5 yrs)
-Taught workshops on Dialectical Behavior Therapy as applied to Personality
Disorders, self-injury issues and eating disorders (5 yrs)
-Provided financial/career/emotional counseling and parenting classes for women
recently leaving abusive relationships (2 yrs)
Administrative Skills
-Co-scheduled and planned for all assessments (school, district and state) (4 yrs)
-Trained proctors and ensured all testing rules and regulations were followed
precisely (3 yrs)
-Wrote, implemented, and ensured compliance with all 504 plans, English Language
Learner Plans, Response to Intervention and Reading Plans and worked with the
Special Education team during the referral process. (8 yrs)
-Member of the Unified Improvement Plan Committee (4 yrs)
-Member of the School Accountability Committee (6 yrs)
-Member of the School Steering Committee (6 yrs)
–Supervised and trained mentors and directed training of new teachers (3 yrs)
-Responsible for providing data analysis needed to support administration and
staff (8 yrs)
-Member of grant writing team and Teacher Award Nomination Committee (4 yrs)
- Member of Common/Formative Assessment Team (2 yrs)

2. Teaching Skills
-Certified Career and Tech Ed teacher - Journalism and Mass Media (2 yrs)
-Helped students who were low achieving to learn success strategies, self-advocate,
and worked with teachers to find ways for the students to meet the learning
objectives and effectively demonstrate their learning (8 yrs)
-Supported students utilizing technology, accommodations/modifications and other
innovative ideas to help them set academic and postsecondary goals and supported
them in their journey to achieve them (8 yrs)
-Taught tier-three and tier-two reading classes to struggling readers 9th-12th grade
–Taught independently and in a cooperative teaching environment. (2 yrs)
-Developed the curriculum used in the reading intervention classes. (3 yrs)
-Worked with students to set achievement goals for themselves each quarter (8 yrs)
-Tracked the progress of students on Individual Literacy Plans (8 yrs)
-Trained teachers during professional development on the RtI process and
interventions to use in their classrooms. (6 yrs)
-Consulted with teachers on an individual basis who asked for additional support (8
yrs)
-Used data to drive the instruction on an individual basis for each student and for
small group instruction (8 yrs)
Education:
Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction – Grand Canyon University
Master of Arts in Professional Counseling - Colorado Christian University
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism - Northern Kentucky University
Accomplishments:
-Certified Reading Interventionist through Colorado College and the Dyslexia
Center
-Member of the District Reading Task Force
-Member of the District Common Assessment Task Force
-Member of the District Literacy Curriculum Steering Committee
- National Junior Honor Society advisor (5 yrs)
-Yearbook Advisor (5 yrs)
-Member of the District School of Choice Committee
-Co-Sponsor of the Middle and High School Student Council (1 yr)
Eligible for Washington Counseling License and Washington teaching license