Deena Johnson

Background

About Deena Johnson

Lifelong Educator: Experienced educator with proven ability to enhance student achievement embraces evidence-based practices with a passionate dedication toward supporting and improving the development of students' skills within a student-centered authentic learning environment.*28 years’ experience in secondary education, 24 of those contributing through a leadership capacity, all of which included comprehensive writing demands;*Broad academic knowledge expertise in all phases of instruction for Advanced Placement, honors, standard, and ESOL: interdisciplinary, differentiated, and authentic learning curriculum development, lesson planning, student assessment, remedial intervention, enrichment, and PBSS discipline management in the secondary English Language Arts classroom;*Successful administration of supervisory duties via department management in a highly organized and timely manner, including staff hiring and development, delegation of assignments, master scheduling, curriculum writing, performance evaluation and budget management.*Effective, sincere communication and interpersonal skills, with success relating to students, parents, faculty, administration, state instructional personnel and media.*Meaningful, effectual, and robust engagement in an online higher education environment via evaluation of graduate-level teacher education coursework Curriculum Writer for Increasing Student Efficacy, Engagement, and Achievement for 21st Diverse Learners: Analyze-Design-Develop-Implement-Evaluate (ADDIE)Model of Instructional Design; Backward Design; Standards-Driven Learning; Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI); Inquiry Research; Attention-Relevance-Confidence-Satisfaction (ARCS) Model of Motivation; Task-Authority-Recognition-Grouping-Evaluation-Time (TARGET) Framework; Student-Centered Metacognition Focus; Differentiation of Content-Process-Product; and Problem-Based Learning. Teacher Leadership: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle Academic Editor: Career educator interested in new opportunities in higher education to put existing advanced English skills to use in ways that positively contribute to the quality assurance of various college course, program, and related publishing projects, thereby facilitating achievement of the academic and professional goals of key stakeholders. Additional Interests: Postsecondary (Undergraduate) Instructor for English and Education (Teacher-Preparation)