Eagle Mountain, Utah, United States
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela After a couple of different career paths/trajectories, I have finally stopped pursuing what I'm "supposed to" and started pursuing what I love: teaching. There are few things more rewarding than watching others connect what they are learning in class to their lives and the world around them. I am a first-generation college graduate, and big believer in the power of education to transform a person. I've seen it firsthand. In addition to a career in education, I use my education and experience to provide career coaching and business consulting (shoot an email to [email protected] if you have questions about that - I'd love to chat!). Let me know if you ever want to grab tacos (or hear a random/cool animal fact).
As a student advocate, my job is to support students in their goals to get good grades, attend class, and build their executive skills. I co-teach 6 sections of Guided Studies, where we focus on building student understanding across all of their courses, as well as help them finish homework, catch up on missing assignments, and more. In this role, we also work with students to help them develop executive skills like planning, organization, time management, stress management, develop healthy socioemotional habits, and more.
From earning the high school superlative of “Next Oprah” to an undergraduate degree in Family Sciences, I have always had a passion for helping people live their best, most fulfilling life. As friends, family, and colleagues have come to me for advice, I’ve found many of them are facing the same basic struggle: feeling like they don’t know how to make the “right” choice. I’ve also found that more often than not, we have the answers to our own questions; we just need a cheerleader, accountability buddy, or strategist in our corner to help us take the next step(s). The approach I take with True North is to help you find your own answers - the ones that are meaningful and will stick with you to help you build a fulfilling life. In addition to career coaching, I offer business consulting services. Coupled with an MBA, my work experience (ranging from the enterprise, startup, education, and consulting realms) has helped me gain the business acumen to help your small-to-medium business operate more effectively. I’m looking forward to helping you build the career, and/or business of your dreams! Reach out if you're interested in learning more: [email protected]
10,000 Degrees works "to achieve educational equity and to support students from low-income backgrounds to and through college—and beyond—to realize their full potential and positively impact their communities and the world." With a focus on students of color, lower SES, and first-generation students, this mentorship provides a leg up to students that might not otherwise have one. I am thrilled to work with these students, providing them with as many opportunities, tips, and advantages as I can.
In this role, I work with different classes (as assigned) to continue the educational process while the regular teacher is gone. I have taught courses including PE, US History, math, English, and more.
I filled in at Frontier Middle School for two teachers who went on maternity leave. One class was 7th grade math, and the other was US History. Highlights include: - Student pass rates (math) in line with the rest of the department - End-of-year state testing numbers (math) in line with the rest of the department - Student pass rates (US History) in line with department expectations - Multiple student notes, thanking me for helping them out this year (more of a personal highlight, but I'll take it!)
Gideon Taylor helps our clients to revolutionize business processes through a variety of tools, including the GT eForms platform, Ida (AI-enabled chatbot) and managed/consulting services for all things PeopleSoft. As a Functional Analyst, I primarily help clients to design, build, document, and implement eForms to make their business processes more simple, efficient, effective, and flexible (aka: SEEF-ful). Highlights: - Worked with internal and external teams to deliver a high-complexity form (managing external participants, augmented routing, a robot approver to hold forms, etc.) on-time and within budget - Trained multiple classes of 7 - 25 individuals on use of the GT eForms tool, receiving exemplary client feedback - Developed a project plan to manage 25 Advanced Product courses (and counting) - Led an effort to clean up historical client data from 15+ locations