Resume
Vickie Anne Young
PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position as an assistant principal to utilize my
skills and proficiency in leadership and management
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Dynamic, talented educational leader
Excellent interpersonal and people skills
Highly self-motivated and tenacious in completing projects
Extensive experience in education, executive management
practices, workshop instruction, and mentoring students
EDUCATION
CURRENTLY ATTENDING MASTER’S IN EDUCATIONAL
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, HOUSTON, TX – EXPECTED
GRADUATION 12/2015 (4.0 GPA)
MASTER OF ARTS IN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF
PHOENIX, HOUSTON TX, 2012 (4.0 GPA)
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION,
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, ONTARIO, CA, 2001 (3.78 GPA)
CERTIFICATIONS
Principal (Provisional, pending completion of
internship/practicum 5/2015)
Instructional Leadership Development
Generalist 4-12
Special Education EC-12
SKILLS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cypress Fairbanks ISD, Houston, TX – 10/06 – Present
 Campbell Middle School - Case Manager and Special
Education Adaptive Behavior and Basic Resource Teacher
Grades 6-8 – 8/2012 - present
 Campbell Middle School – Special Education Life Skills,
Instructional Aid – 11/11 – 06/12
 Labay Middle School - Special Education Life Skills,
Instructional Aid – 06/12 – 08/12
 Cypress Fairbanks ISD Substitute Teacher - Grades K–12
multiple facilities – 10/ 06 – 11/11
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 Berlitz Language Center, Houston, TX – 06/08 - 05/10
English as a Second Language Instructor - Students
originated from Africa, Brazil, China, Germany, India,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, and
Spain
 Texas Tutor Professionals, Houston, TX – 11/06 - 2/10
Designed and facilitated GED and ESL workshops for
students and parents
PUBLIC SERVICE
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Bank of America Community Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
05/81 – 01/97
 Team America Volunteer and Speakers’ Bank - Designed and
facilitated over 100 leadership business forums, career fairs,
conferences, internships, mentoring relationships, and workshops
for youth, adults, and Special Olympics in Los Angeles and San
Diego, CA
BOSS The Movement Christian Business Ministry, Ontario, CA – 05/95 –
06/05
 Master Trainer for entreprenuerialship training workshops for youth
and adults. Implemented innovative programs to teach business
skills and provided consultative advice for new business ventures
Workshops
BUSINESS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WPS National Inc., Riverside, CA and Phoenix, AZ – 1/97 – 5/05
 Chief Financial Officer of a family owned & operated Janitorial
Service. Managed 1000+ accounts averging $3,000,000 USD annually.
Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA – 05/81 – 01/97
 Vice President & Senior Property Manager, Corporate Real Estate
Management Department. Responsible for managing and directing a
comercial real estate portfolio of over 10,000 properties in Northern
and Southern California valued at $15,000,000 USD.
NOTABLE AWARDS AND
COMMENDATIONS
 “ESL Instructor of Year” Berlitz Language Center, Houston, TX – 2008
 “Commitment to Excellence” Inland Empire Minority Business Development
Center Ontario, CA - 2004
 “Platinum Scholarship Sponsor” San Antonio Regional Occupational
Program, Riverside, CA - 2004
 “Working Together: Succeeding as a Couple and Partners” Riverside, CA
Press Enterprise Article - 2000
 “Making It Minority Success Stories” Featured Interview Channel 5 KTLA Los
Angeles, CA - 1999
 “Affirmative Action Award” Security Pacific Corporation/Joint Network
Council Los Angeles, CA - 1998
 “STAR Diversity Supplier Award” Bank of America Los Angeles, CA – 1998
 Listed among "100 Most Promising Black Women in Corporate America"
Ebony Magazine Chicago, IL -1/91
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW - INTRODUCTION
Pete Hall, principal of Sheridan Elementary School in Spokane,
Washington (winner of the 2004 Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Outstanding Young
Educator Award) and Alisa Simeral, literacy coach at Anderson
Elementary School in Reno, Nevada collaborated to write,
“Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success: A Collaborative
Approach for Coaches and School Leaders.” They met at
Anderson Elementary School in Reno, Nevada. Hall was the
principal and Simeral was hired as the instructional coach.
Over a two-year period, the staff and leadership team at
Anderson made monumental changes, both structural and
philosophical. These changes resulted in successful school
improvements and is the foundation for their book.
BOOK REVIEW - OVERVIEW
Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success provides a road map to
help site-based administrators and instructional coaches bring
out the best in every teacher and achieve greater academic
success as a result. The quality of the teacher is the “X Factor.”
Everything in education depends on it. Teachers are the field
agents of educational change and building the capacity for their
success is vital for Strength-Based School Improvement. Hall
and Simeral’s model of Strength-Based School Improvement is
an alternative to a negative, deficit-approach focused on fixing
what is wrong. Instead, they show school leaders how to achieve
their goals by working together to maximize what is right. They
offer proven strategies organized around two easy-to-use tools,
the innovative Continuum of Self-Reflection and a feedbackfocused walk-through model.
BOOK REVIEW – PART I
Opening a Window of School Improvement
Introduces the foundation for the Strength-Based School
Improvement. This model is based on identifying teachers’
strengths, maximizing teachers’ potential, and building teachers’
capacity. This is a collaborative effort with the partnership
established in a triangular relationship between the teachers,
administrators, and instructional coaches. Together they build a
professional learning community based on continuous learning
and improvement.
BOOK REVIEW – PART II
Coaching Along the Continuum
Defines the roles and responsibilities of the instructional coaches
and offers a framework for taking meaningful action to build
teacher capacity and collegial relationships. Effective coaches
have strong interpersonal and people skills. They have to have
empathy, patience, and the ability to discern where a teacher is in
their professional development. They need to work along side
the teacher to build respect and trust. The teacher builds
strength through the continuum of self-reflection on their daily
instructional practices and positive changes to improve student
learning.
BOOK REVIEW – PART III
The Enduring Work of the Building Administrator
Establishing meaningful relationships in schools requires strong
leadership. Hall and Simeral introduced the definitions of
leadership and management as they relate to school improvement.
Marcus Buckingham (2005), a noted expert on leadership and
management, shares this advice: "You can play both roles, of
course, but if you do, you must know when to change gears. When
you want to manage, begin with the person. When you want to
lead, begin with the picture of where you are headed" (p.71). In
their pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement, school
administrators face challenges, obstacles, pressures, constraints,
and unexpected impediments. The administrator is the most
influential variable in education today. The administrator has the
ability to inspire, encourage, and activate the potential and output
of every single teacher on staff. He or she must tackle cultivating
relationships and building teachers' capacity for success.
BOOK REVIEW RECOMMENDATION
I highly recommend this book for aspiring administrators. It was
easy to read and easy to relate to my current role as a special
education teacher. There are many ideas I gleaned from the
lessons learned in this book. I believe in the practice of the selfreflective continuum and it is something I do on a daily basis.
Self-reflection has made me a better teacher and it is very
encouraging to go back and review the writings and lessons that I
have learned for self-improvement. I also learned the importance
of instructional coaches and have one on my campus who is like
Simeral. She is excellent in building relationships based on
respect and trust. I have seen her work with many of the “change
resistors.” This is a skill I want to strengthen as I develop best
practices to become an effective administrator.
BOOK REVIEW - REFERENCES
Buckingham, M. (2005). The one thing you need to
know … About great managing, great leading, and
sustained individual success. New York: Free Press.
Hall, P. and Simeral, A. (2008). Building Teachers'
Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for
Coaches and School Leaders. Virginia: ASCD.
QUOTE
“To excel as an administrator you must never forget
that each of your direct reports is unique and that your
chief responsibility is not to eradicate this uniqueness,
but rather to arrange roles, responsibilities, and
expectations so that you can capitalize upon it. The
more you perfect this skill, the more effectively
you will turn talents into performance.”
Marcus Buckingham
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