Jaimie Melissa Crawford

	Education Work Experience Achievements Awards/Honors Publications
*Literary Lynx* link to current course descriptions

4811 Kelly Road
Tampa, Florida
33615

(813) 885-1673

crawfjai@berkeley.org

Education

M.Ed., Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Masters in Counseling Education; Mental Health Licensure coursework.  December, 1994
B.A., Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Combined major in psychology and English literature. June, 1990
New College at Oxford University, Oxford, England
Semester study of British literature and concentration in modern poetry financed by a Duke Financial Aid Grant
L'Universitie de Tours, Tours, France
Semester Study of French literature

Work Experience

Teacher and Advisor, Berkeley Preparatory School, Tampa, Florida
Instruct AP language and journalism; 2007-Present
Teacher and Advisor, Windsor High School, Windsor, California
Instruct digital design core English and technology program at the high school level. 2006-2007
Teacher and Advisor, Pine Crest School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Instruct AP language, British literature, world literature, psychology in literature, journalism, and English as a second language at the high school level. Advise yearbook and newspaper; 1990-2006
Psychologist, Franco and Associates Plantation, Florida
Counseled teens and parents.  March 1994-April 1998
Instructor, Gain The Edge, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Instructed summer school students in Shakespearean drama in a federally
funded minority program. Summers 92'-94'
Research Assistant, Lennox Baker's Children's Hospital, Durham, North Carolina
Aided in researching the coping skills of parents with children suffering terminal illness. Administered the Peabody Test. 1988-1990
Water Safety Supervisor, Six Flags Atlantis, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Instructed lifeguards in CPR, WSI, and first aid. Traveled internationally to assist Jeff Ellis in E&A water safety audits. 1984-1988

Achievements

• Reader for College Board Advanced Placement examination  in English Language and Composition and SAT II
• Instructed British, American, world literature, ESOL, and self-designed courses in psychoanalytic theory and current issues in adolescence
• Advised journalism program, newspaper and award-winning yearbook
• Certified as college placement and guidance counselor
• Improved average Advanced Placement Language and Composition scores
  (Overall cumulative AP scores from 1993-present for over 800 students: 4.2 )
• Supervised yearbook, acclaimed nationally in the NSPA "Gallery of Excellence"
• Created English and humanities web sites intended to publish exemplary student papers, facilitate composition discussion online, and improve student achievement
• Coordinated , budgeted, and instructed Gain the Edge, a federally-funded minority enrichment program in college preparatory English

Awards/Honors

Teacher of the Year, Deaver Award 1998
Arete Honor Society, Pine Crest Distinguished Alumnus 1997
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society, Inducted in 1997
Quill and Scroll National Honor Society, Advisor Induction in 1995
Silver Pendant, Florida Scholastic Press Association, Inducted in 1995

Publications

• Speaking Their Language
  2004 National AP Conference Conference held in Orlando, Florida, and sponsored by the Educational Testing Service

• The Sonnet Project: Combining Vertical Team Teaching and Technology
  NTCE, Denver, November 18, 2000

• Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean: The Victorian Ego in a Roman Id
  34th Annual MLA Comparative Literature Conference Long Beach,   March 18, 1999

• Educator Exchange: Literary Lynx
  NAIS, Dallas, February 26, 1999

• Wallace Stevens’s ‘Emperor of Ice Cream’
  Explicator, Fall 1998

• Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
  NTCE, Nashville, November 15, 1998

• How to Stay Above Water While Using the Internet
  FCIS, Tampa, November 21, 1999

Jaimie Crawford.
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Revised: August 19, 2008.