Karla Guerra

Background

About Karla Guerra

Bilingual Teacher - Third Grade Alexander Hamilton Morris School District September 2019 - current Teacher mentor to advise, guide and instruct new teachers on district curriculum, classroom management and completion of SGO’s and PDP’s Facilitate in district professional development on Guided Reading, reading strategies and NJSLA based ELA lesson development Member of the biliteracy committee to design instructional curriculum and present strategies designed to help ELL students gain language proficiency Student literacy growth on iStation scores in both Spanish and English based ELA domains Develop math curriculum tailored for our third grade bilingual population incorporating biliteracy strategies Classroom achieved an 80% annual growth in iReady math scores Achieved highly effective teacher ratings annually as per district and state guidelines Bilingual Teacher - Second Grade William B. Cruise - Passaic School District September 2016- June 2019 ILT (Instructional Leadership Team) member to work collaboratively with other educators within our district to create and implement effective learning strategies for whole group as well as small group instruction CLI trained - worked with CLI coaches to learn and utilize reading/decoding strategies in Reader’s Workshop and Guided Reading group instruction to promote literacy growth Mentored and trained incoming first year teachers in bilingual best practices such as TPR, contrastive analysis and small group guided reading. Attend educational workshops and professional development for literacy and mathematics to create successful and engaging lessons Production Coordinator - Command Web Offset Team lead for Scholastic account September - June 2009 Oversee and manage all stages of print production for over 500 titles to deliver high quality paperback books Collaborate closely with publisher and pre-production team to provide blueprints and prototypes in order to meet clients’ final product vision Strong problem solving skills to resolve unforeseen issues, maintain productivity and meet book printing deadlines Participate in weekly and monthly meetings with publishing house executives, production team and pre-press management to resolve and improve on communication and workflow progress Develop and maintain strong communication with external vendors for special projects Submit detailed billing invoices outlining all pre-press, cover specifications and final book count delivery Train new hires within our team in printing techniques, customer relations and company procedures