PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Middle Grades Partnership (MGP) Program Director, The St. Paul’s Schools, Brooklandville, Maryland, USA. January 2025 - present.

  • Develop an engaging and rigorous curriculum for the Middle Grades Partnership summer program that addresses the need to stem summer learning loss and advance students' abilities in reading, writing, and mathematics

  • Hire Middle Grades Partnership teachers for the summer program

  • Hire and train college and high school interns for the program

  • Tracking of student academic performance data

  • Produce formative and summative evaluation reports

  • Coordinate and ensure background checks for all program employees

  • Collaborate with school business offices and school facilities regarding program details

  • Produce an accurate budget for Middle Grades Partnership program implementation

  • Host site visits for the program

  • Support students as they apply to Baltimore's top entrance-criteria high schools

Data Acquisition and Analysis Coordinator (DAAC), Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School, Adams, Massachusetts, USA. 2022-2024.

Data Management, Analysis and Reporting

  • Designed and developed data dashboards to identify trends, and useful information for school leadership and instructional staff.

  • Created tracking tools for the implementation and evaluation of SEL goals and outcomes.

  • Developed, administered, and analysed surveys that collected qualitative and quantitative data from all district stakeholders (e.g. end of year surveys among students, staff and families; school climate survey).

  • Analyzed qualitative and quantitative educational data (STATA, Excel, Qualtrics, NVivo).

  • Collaborated with the Grants Manager in securing $1 million annual revenue from competitive and state funded grants.

  • Worked collaboratively with the school’s leadership in the preparation of main accountability reports (e.g. Annual report, Charter renewal application, Child Opportunity Act).

Coaching and Development

  • Served as an advisor to the leadership team, assisting in setting and monitoring school, student, and teacher goals through the school's annual accountability plan.

  • Trained appropriate staff members and teachers to use data tracking and reporting system tool.

  • Expanded capacity of the school in data collection and project monitoring.

Research Collaborator, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. 2019-2021.

Project name: Multilingual acquisition at third-level education in Japan and Spain: an analysis of the professional prospects of graduate students.

Project funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research - the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) ($30,000).

Research Associate, Areté Education Inc., New York, USA. 2020-2021.

Program evaluator

  • Reviewed program data and drafted research reports to support program design and innovation, as well as grant reporting requirements.

Data analysis

  • Collected and analysed quantitative and qualitative data from different education programs to present to the Board of Trustees and funders.

Impact Assessment

  • Analyzed the effects of different interventions on staff (e.g. P.D.) and students (e.g. cash assistance on school attendance).

Associate Consultant, CPRL (Center for Public Research and Leadership), Columbia Law School, New York, USA. 2020.

Project name: Networks for school improvement - Formative evaluation of results

  • Conducted M&E tasks to identify quality improvement outcomes at secondary level in different school districts across the country with a high percentage of Black and Hispanic/Latino students. Specifically, my focus was on the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Project name: Improving Transitions and Enrollment for High Mobile Students in a COVID-19 Environment. Client: MCEC (Military Child Education Coalition).

  • Identified the needs of military-connected families in the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and created a customized tool to understand the implications of all instructional settings available in U.S. states to give them support transitioning between schools.

Adjunct Professor, Education, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain. 2018-2019.

-Course taught: Education Policy implementation in the area of language learning (Year 4 – B. Ed. Elementary School Teaching): Instructed on the implementation of the language primary school curriculum within a bilingual education system, dealing with questions related to language diversity in the classroom, multilingual acquisition and immersion education.

-Supervision of Final Year Research Project (Year 4 – B. Ed. Elementary School Teaching): Assisted students in research design, methodology selection, data collection and analysis, and oral examination of their final year dissertation thesis.

- Evaluation of Final Year Research Project – Oral examination committee member: Reviewed submitted research thesis and evaluated students in the final oral defense.

Department Chair & Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and Spanish, Institute for Liberal Arts & Sciences (ILAS), & International Academic Research and Resource Center for Language Education Department of Spanish, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. 2014-2016.

-Developed a new Curriculum for the teaching of Spanish Language and Culture as a foreign language at third level education.

-Instructional design: Created the instructional content for the new Department website (e.g. instructional and assessment materials).

-Supervised the implementation of the language curriculum across 14 staff and 500 students.

-Set and marked university examinations ensuring standardization across the board.

-Assisted Head of Department in daily administrative functions.

-Prepared administrative reports and organized Department meetings.

-Recruited, supported and supervised instructional staff within the Department.

-Obtained funding as a P.I. from the Japanese Ministry of Education through a 2-year Kakenhi research grant ($30K).

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Education, Aichi Prefecture University, Nagoya, Japan. 2015.

-Course taught: Introduction to the Sociology of Language. Undergraduate program.

Adjunct Professor, Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. 2009-2014.

-Courses taught: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced and Academic Spanish to M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies students.

-Supervised and examined taught master’s dissertation thesis from 2012 to 2014.

Adjunct Professor, Education, Department of Education, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland. 2008-2010.

-Course taught: Teaching methodologies. Undergraduate program.

-Supervised and examined taught master’s dissertation thesis.

Adjunct Professor, Education, Department of Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. 2005-2007.

-Course Taught: Teaching Methodologies. Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Psychology programs.

EDUCATION:

Master of Arts in International Educational Development, Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York, United States. 2019-2021.

Specialized in the analysis of educational systems from an international lens; able to address pressing policy issues from the point of view of data analytics and monitoring and evaluation techniques. Acquired advance skills in the use of non-experimental quantitative research methods as related to education policy. Perfected my skills on designing and writing about empirical research in the field of education while gaining a deep understanding of bottom-up and top-down policy challenges of policy reform.

Courses: Quantitative Data Analysis for Policy and Decision Making (Stata) I (4002), II (5002), III (6002); Comparative Policy Studies, Economics and Development, Microeconomics, Social Analysis of ILSA, Monitoring and Evaluation in IED; Education in Emergencies; Issues and Institutions in International Educational Development.

The Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution - Conflict Resolution: Advanced Methods for Identity & Intergroup Conflict.

Ph.D. in Education Policy, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 2008–2014.

Homologation in Spain by the Spanish Ministry of Education – Ramon LLull University, April 2018.

Master of Arts in Education by research, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick. Ireland. 2005-2007.

Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education & Sports Sciences: Ramon Llull University, Barcelona. Spain. 1998-2001.

AWARDS

Award: John & Pat Hume Ph.D. Scholarship (full-time). National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland. 2008-2011.

Award: Postgraduate Research M. Ed. Scholarship (full-time). Mary Immaculate College of Education, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. 2005-2007.   

PROJECTS

  • Multilingual acquisition at third-level education in Japan and Spain: an analysis of the professional prospects of graduate students.

Project funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research - the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) (€30,000). 2019-2021.

  • The construction of National Identity in Catalonian, Irish and Ryukyuan Contexts.

Project funded by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research - the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) (€30,000). 2016.

  • National Digital and Learning Repository (NDLR) - Awarded €1,550 by the to work on the Digitalization of Course Materials within the Department of Spanish at Maynooth University. 2011.

  • Liaison between the National University of Ireland Maynooth and the Institut Ramon Llull to establish and consolidate the Catalan Studies program in Maynooth University, Ireland. 2011.

LANGUAGES

Catalan: native speaker

Spanish: native speaker

English: native-like speaker

French: low intermediate level proficiency

Japanese: basic knowledge