Maikel Izquierdo

Teaching Career and Technical Business courses to student in grades 9-12.  Courses included Digital Design, Digital Information Technology and Emerging Technology in Business courses. Utilized Canvas LMS to create a 100% paperless classroom. Prepared reading lessons in content area to support school improvement reading goals and created subject area integrated lessons with reading, math and history. 

• Implemented a new Entrepreneurship and Small Business Curriculum and Certification within the DIT Curriculum while working on the current Microsoft Technology Associate- Windows Operating System Curriculum. Students earned a total of 50 certifications in these areas.
• Completed Hillsborough Community College's Innovators in Action course and earned educator certification in Entrepreneurship and Small Business as well as InLab's Innovator in Residence Certification. 
  • Sickles Go Green Team won a $2500 Grant for their project "Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose," which was an interdisciplinary project with the agriculture and E.S.E. departments at our school and community partners Green Fiber and Humane Society.
• Volunteered to align the new standards for Digital Design and rewrite the curriculum, scope and sequences, reviews and exams for the District CTE Department.
• My class won 1st place in the Literacy Week door decoration contest conducted by the media center. 
  • Students also designed bookmarks for the Literacy week bookmark contest. One of my students won 1st place.
• I developed a process for Adobe Industry Certification Testing that allowed us to certify students at school as opposed to certifying students online, which would require students to miss other classes to accommodate the scheduling of the testing agency.

Taught a variety of Career and Technical Education business courses to students in grades 9-12. Courses are organized and managed within a 100% paperless environment utilizing learning management systems such as Edsby and Canvas. Instruction is delivered within a blended learning model utilizing both online video and live lessons. Student projects are real-world Project Based Learning. Business courses are also aligned with other subject areas for integration of learning and support of school improvement goals. Students have earned Industry Certifications in Microsoft and Adobe products including InDesign CC, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, and Dreamweaver CC; Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) Internet Business Associate Certification; Microsoft Office Specialist and Microsoft Office Master Certifications. Current courses include Digital Design, Digital Information Technology, and Business & Entrepreneurship Principles. Previous classes taught: Legal Aspects of Business, Emerging Technology in Business, Foundations of Web Design, Customer Service 1.  Extracurricular activities include Co-sponsoring Future Business Leaders of America (F.B.L.A.), AVID site team member, Instructional Leadership Team, and C.T.E. Professional Learning Community. I also actively volunteer for district career and technical education projects such as standards alignment, curriculum writing, exam writing/revisions, pilot projects, and Professional Development training.  

• Awarded "Best and Brightest" performance pay three years in a row for students consistently scoring in the top tieLast year online and brick & mortar students both earned Industry certifications in comparable numbers for a total of 148 certifications. During the sudden transition to e-Learning (19-20), my students continued earning certifications from home.
• Establish community partnerships with local businesses for the Great American Virtual Teach-in and traditional Great American Teach-ins. These business partners have assisted with C.T.E. book adoptions and provided business mentoring to students.
• Extracurricular projects for C.T.E. - Delivered multiple Professional Development training sessions, curriculum writing, and standards alignment sessions for business courses. Volunteer for exam revisions and exam writing, textbook adoption committees, and pilots, such as certification pilots for Microsoft and Adobe exams, new industry certification pilots for Social Media Strategist and IT Fundamentals, and Canvas piloting/teacher trainer.
• Conducted virtual trainings to support teachers during the sudden Covid-19 eLearning transition and the 20-21 hybrid instruction model. Provided online training and resources and assisted teachers with the development of online content for Canvas.
• AVID trained site team member for four years. Attended Summer Institutes. Earned certification for the technology strand- Microsoft Advancing Technology Office 365.

Performed covert video, customer service evaluations for corporate clients. Traveled in state and out-of-state to complete assignments. Projects involved attention to detail, extensive travel, time management, and organization; meeting time-sensitive deadlines, and extensive technology usage. Required set-up and maintenance of home and mobile offices.

• Selected as a part-time corporate trainer. Responsibilities included supervising new employees throughout their probationary period. Training recruits on company procedures, project organization, project research, and report writing. The training involved modeling shops and coaching new shoppers; assisting shoppers with technology purchases, mobile/home office set up and equipment usage. Provided feedback to new shoppers on initial customer service evaluation shops.

Integrated grade level standards and subject area objectives with technology at a (Title I) school for students in grades K-5. Taught reading level 3 interventions using the Response to Intervention (RTI) process and by incorporating technology in the process. I also taught creative curriculum-infused technology classes through the EdVenture after-school program. This program was part of an extended school day model for at-risk students in low-performing schools.

• Provided technology support, training, and curriculum integration for teachers and staff. Created a special kindergarten technology curriculum to meet the new common core writing and publishing standards. 
• Conducted summer training for FSTE (Florida Society of Technology in Education) for teachers in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties focused on differentiated learning and writing resources.
• Member of the Elementary Technology PLC.  Assisted in creating a curriculum outline for implementation of the Technology Common Core Sunshine State Standards.   
• Trained parents on the use of technology by submitting instructional articles in our school's newsletter, sending home tri-lingual tutorial sheets to assist in accessing technology at home, and by providing bilingual technology trainings for parents through our school's parent involvement group "Open." 
• Mentored teachers through the National Board Certification process in the areas of Early Childhood Generalist and Middle Childhood Generalist. Also assisted National Board Candidates with technology issues and ideas for technology integration.

Implemented teaching/learning strategies to meet a variety of student disabilities; taught E.S.E. students within an inclusive general education environment utilizing a
co-teaching/co-planning model.  Created additional customized lessons to support student learning. Delivered individualized and small group instruction.

• My documentation (Individual Educational Plans, progress reports and student narratives) were selected as team examples because of my clear goal & objective writing, In-depth student observations and narratives, and parent friendly communication. 
• Conducted a variety of technology trainings for the E.S.E. Team and integrated technology into the general elementary curriculum.
• All students in my caseload achieved I.E.P annual goals/objectives, passed F.C.A.T., and were promoted to the next grade level.
• My position was eliminated in the 2008-2009 school year due to educational budget cuts.

Taught general music, chorus and instrumental ensembles to students in an inclusive environment at low socioeconomic (Title I) Schools.

• Students were selected to sing and/or play instruments in All County Honors Chorus and All State Honors Chorus.  Schools previously did not have any participants in these honors ensembles.
• Selected as a district leader for various projects and committees including, curriculum writing projects and mentoring projects.  Provided Teaching and Technology Training throughout the district as a member of C.T.I.P. (Curriculum and Technology Integration Project.) Mentored teachers through National Board for Professional Teaching Standards mentoring initiative and Mentored new teachers as a founding member of the New Teacher Mentoring Cadre.
• Leadership roles as School Representative to the Superintendent, School's Technology Committees, Florida Orchestra Education Committee, Membership Coordinator for the Pinellas County Music Teachers Association and Textbook Adoption Committees.