Melissa Hart is seeking a leadership position in interdisciplinary education integrating ecological awareness. She has over 20 years of experience as a teacher, most recently as a sixth grade humanities teacher. She has strong skills in curriculum planning, instructional design, team leadership, assessment, and classroom management. Her experience also includes professional development workshops and integrating technology into the classroom. She holds a Master's degree from Brooklyn College and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

1. Melissa Hart
298 18th
Street  Brooklyn, NY 11215  (718) 928-8892  missyhart12@aim.com
Objective
Seeking leadership position in interdiscipinary education integrating ecological
awareness
Profile
Motivated, enthusiastic, innovative education professional with masters degree
- City teacher rating in the top 20% of the city, based on five years of state tests.
-Highly Effective rating for classroom management with regard to the Danielson Framework for
Teaching.
-Goal-driven team leader for Sixth-Grade Humanities Team.
-Diplomatic and tactful with professionals and non-professionals at all levels.
-Thrives in creative-driven environments with cultural and socio-economic diversity.
Skills Summary
 Curriculum Planning &
Intructional Design
 Motivational Team Leader
 Written & Electronic
Correspondence
 Professional Writer
 Group Management
 Data-Driven
Assessment
 Scheduling
 Professional
Presentations
 Spatial Organization
 Gradebook/Bookkeeping
 Maintenance of confidential
student records.
 Socratic Method
 Divergent Questioning
Professional Experience
COMMUNICATION: INSTRUCTION/CORRESPONDENCE/TECHNOLOGY
 Designing and delivering instruction on reading and writing strategies for fiction and nonfiction
texts, including but not limited to novels, textbooks, short stories, articles, poetry, argument, etc.
 Providing multiple entry points for learning of the above concepts as well as historical concepts,
including geographical themes (location, place, movement, human-environment interaction, and
region), prehistory, the elements of culture (communications, art forms, social structure, social
behavior, institutions, and economic base) with regard to the civilizations of the ancient world, the
Middle Ages, and Early Modern Europe.
 Writing professional correspondence to students, parents, colleagues, and supervisors.
 Participation in the professional community at the level of the school, district and city-wide
professional development workshops on subjects including but not limited to: rigor in the
classroom, the Common Core State Standards, online lesson planning and sharing, the Danielson
Framework for Teaching, etc.
 Participation in the professional development community at cultural institutions, such as the
American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Theater for a New
Audience, and The New Victory Theater.
 Active integration of technology into the classroom: EngradePro; archival speeches; virtual tours,
Cave of Lascaux, Bayeux Tapestry, Cloisters; navigation of internet access to textbooks (Journey
Across Time) and magazines used in class (Scholastic Scope)
 RUNNING GROUP MEETINGS/WORKING WITH COLLEAGUES/PROBLEM
SOLVING
 Development and implementation of strategic instructional plans based on student data:
including state test scores as well as classroom reading assessments and conferences.
 Adaptation of grammar program to address current and differentiated needs of students and
make efficient use of limited time frames.

2. Melissa Hart
Résumé, Page Two WILLING TO TRAVEL
Professional Experience, continued
DETAIL MASTERY & ORGANIZATION
 Manage all aspects of day-to-day operations in a classroom setting.
 Organization of physical space conducive to learning and to ease transitions.
 Scheduling of conferences with parents, face to face, phone and email correspondence.
 Online records of timely student assessment available for parent access.
 Organization of learners into heterogenous and homogenous learning groups for appropriate
learning scaffolds.
 Compliance with the Common Core State Standards and school mandates coming from the
principal as well as on point practices of the Danielson Framework for Teaching.
Employment History
MS 443 NEW VOICES SCHOOL OF ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE ARTS – Brooklyn, NY
Sixth Grade Humanities Teacher, 2008 to Present
Sixth Grade Humanities Teacher and Theater Arts Elective Teacher, 2002-2008
PS 295 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Brooklyn, NY
Kindergarten Teacher, 2001-2002
MAKING BOOKS SING, THE VINEYARD THEATER – NY, NY
Teaching Artist, 2000-2001
Education
BROOKLYN COLLEGE – Brooklyn, NY
Masters of Arts, 2008
(History, Thesis: Antipaternalist Abolitionism.)
Dean’s List
Licensed to teach Prek-6th
Grade Common Branches and K-12 Speech/Theater
Experience in ICT and Resource Classrooms for Kindergarten and Sixth-Grade
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN – Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelors of Arts, 1990
Graduated with Honors
Computer Skills
 Microsoft Office
 Apple Keynote
 Google Docs
 Engrade Pro
 Skype
 Apple Pages
298 18th
Street  Brooklyn, NY 11215  (718)928-8892 missyhart12@aim.com