ANNE E. OLSON-REINERS
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
K-12 Principal license (June 2015)
M.A.T., K-8 education (April 2011)
Minnesota Teaching License in Elementary Education K-8,
5-8 grade Communication Arts and Literature license
Minnesota Department of Education File Folder #438912
St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota (May 2004)
B.A., Cum Laude, Environmental Studies
Bilingual (Spanish), Advanced-low, as measured by the OPIc
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Principal
Keewatin Elementary School
Keewatin, Minnesota
(August 2016 - present)
Assistant Principal
St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists
St. Paul, Minnesota
(July 2015 - June 2016)
Administrative Intern/TOSA
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion/Crestview Elementary
Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(January 2013 – January 2015)
Acting Assistant Principal for the two schools. Positive behavior intervention work with students. Conflict resolutions with staff and parents. Responsible for interviewing and recommendation to hire new teaching staff including K-12 international hires. Plan and implement professional development for Spanish immersion staff. Responsible for the recruitment, interviewing, training, evaluation, and performance of international teaching assistant.
Administrative Internship
Woodury High School
Woodbury, Minnesota
(September 2014 – December 2014)
Administrative Internship
Oak-Land Junior High School
Stillwater, Minnesota
(September 2014 – December 2014)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Second Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(January 2015 – June 2015)
Second grade classroom Teacher. Plan and teach all subject lessons for a class of second grade students. Site mentor to non-tenured teaching staff. Additionally, coordinate, supervise, and evaluate eight international teaching assistants at the K-12 grade levels.
Fifth Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(August 2012 – January 2013)
Classroom Teacher. Plan and teach social studies, reading, and writing lessons using multiple sources for 54 fifth grade students. Student council co-coordinator. All-school morning meeting coordinator.
First Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(May 2008 – 2012)
Classroom Teacher. Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, as well as mental and physical health. Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students and parents.
Middle School, mixed age, summer school teacher
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth, St. Paul, Minnesota
(June - July 2009, 2010)
In 2009, lead students “Reading the streets,” blending teaching students how to ride the city bus and read maps with reading “urban literature,” a blend of texts from Sharon G. Flake’s The Skin I’m In to Gwendolyn Brooks’ We Real Cool and St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 2010, used Mexican food, culture, and Spanish chapter books to motivate immersion and non-immersion students alike to develop or continue their Spanish conversational ability over the summer.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Dormitory Community Coordinator
Delta Dorm, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, Minnesota (October 2005- December 2013)
Created a home-like community within in a high school dormitory residence of 150 students, in cooperation with a team of nine staff members. Worked in cooperation with parents and teachers to provide direct parental-like support for thirty 11th and 12th grade girls.
Community Environmental Educator
Peace Corps Volunteer, San Jacinto, Nicaragua Environmental (August 2004 – June 2005)
Taught environmental science lessons to students age four to adult in community elementary schools and health centers. Created, organized, and implemented, in collaboration with other Peace Corps volunteers, the first annual state-wide classroom management training and educational game workshop for over 400 public school teachers in the Nicaraguan state of León.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Responsive Classroom: I, II, III, Problem Solving, Bullyproof Your Classroom
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
K-12 Principal license (June 2015)
M.A.T., K-8 education (April 2011)
Minnesota Teaching License in Elementary Education K-8,
5-8 grade Communication Arts and Literature license
Minnesota Department of Education File Folder #438912
St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota (May 2004)
B.A., Cum Laude, Environmental Studies
Bilingual (Spanish), Advanced-low, as measured by the OPIc
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Principal
Keewatin Elementary School
Keewatin, Minnesota
(August 2016 - present)
Assistant Principal
St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists
St. Paul, Minnesota
(July 2015 - June 2016)
Administrative Intern/TOSA
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion/Crestview Elementary
Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(January 2013 – January 2015)
Acting Assistant Principal for the two schools. Positive behavior intervention work with students. Conflict resolutions with staff and parents. Responsible for interviewing and recommendation to hire new teaching staff including K-12 international hires. Plan and implement professional development for Spanish immersion staff. Responsible for the recruitment, interviewing, training, evaluation, and performance of international teaching assistant.
Administrative Internship
Woodury High School
Woodbury, Minnesota
(September 2014 – December 2014)
Administrative Internship
Oak-Land Junior High School
Stillwater, Minnesota
(September 2014 – December 2014)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Second Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(January 2015 – June 2015)
Second grade classroom Teacher. Plan and teach all subject lessons for a class of second grade students. Site mentor to non-tenured teaching staff. Additionally, coordinate, supervise, and evaluate eight international teaching assistants at the K-12 grade levels.
Fifth Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(August 2012 – January 2013)
Classroom Teacher. Plan and teach social studies, reading, and writing lessons using multiple sources for 54 fifth grade students. Student council co-coordinator. All-school morning meeting coordinator.
First Grade Spanish Immersion
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion, Cottage Grove, Minnesota
(May 2008 – 2012)
Classroom Teacher. Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, as well as mental and physical health. Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students and parents.
Middle School, mixed age, summer school teacher
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth, St. Paul, Minnesota
(June - July 2009, 2010)
In 2009, lead students “Reading the streets,” blending teaching students how to ride the city bus and read maps with reading “urban literature,” a blend of texts from Sharon G. Flake’s The Skin I’m In to Gwendolyn Brooks’ We Real Cool and St. Paul native F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 2010, used Mexican food, culture, and Spanish chapter books to motivate immersion and non-immersion students alike to develop or continue their Spanish conversational ability over the summer.
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Dormitory Community Coordinator
Delta Dorm, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, Minnesota (October 2005- December 2013)
Created a home-like community within in a high school dormitory residence of 150 students, in cooperation with a team of nine staff members. Worked in cooperation with parents and teachers to provide direct parental-like support for thirty 11th and 12th grade girls.
Community Environmental Educator
Peace Corps Volunteer, San Jacinto, Nicaragua Environmental (August 2004 – June 2005)
Taught environmental science lessons to students age four to adult in community elementary schools and health centers. Created, organized, and implemented, in collaboration with other Peace Corps volunteers, the first annual state-wide classroom management training and educational game workshop for over 400 public school teachers in the Nicaraguan state of León.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Responsive Classroom: I, II, III, Problem Solving, Bullyproof Your Classroom