RESUME

34 South Harbor Drive                 Sag Harbor, NY  11963                            (631) 745-8590

bcollins@rocketmail.com

EXPERIENCE:

2007                Assistant Principal, Montauk School, Montauk, NY

·         Assist Principal/Superintendent substantially in the task of providing leadership in developing, achieving, and maintaining the best possible educational programs and services for students in grades pre-k—8

·         Act as CIO:  Chief Information Officer for district

·         Keep knowledgeable of school’s curriculum and make recommendations for changes as necessary

·         Provide for the proper supervision of all school children

·         Maintain an effective structure for discipline

·         Assist in budget process

·         Act as liaison between parents and school

·         Oversee NY State testing and scoring for district

·         Assist in all duties as assigned by the Superintendent

2001-2007              Director of the Peconic Teacher Center, (PTC), Southampton, NY

·         Serving approximately 1500 educators and administrators from Hampton Bays out to Montauk

·         Conduct monthly Policy Board meetings with representatives from all consortium school districts

·         Oversee state and local budgets

·         Organize professional development for East End educators

·         Organize and conduct cluster scoring for NY State Tests,

 grades 3-8

                        Staff Development Lead Teacher for Southampton Schools

·         Organized and ran the new staff orientation, mentor training and peer coach program for Southampton Schools

·         Developed district Professional Development Plan

·         Member of Curriculum Council, Superintendent’s Cabinet, and attended Administrative Instructional Meetings and Superintendent’s Planning Meetings

·         Oversaw and administered MY LEARNING PLAN for district teachers

·         Organize staff development programs for district, including focus on Pre-K through 12 literacy support, and implementation of a new math program Pre-K through 6

·         District Math Task Force Member

·         District Literacy Team Member

·         Organized Site Based Team Training

·         Worked toward implementing curriculum mapping web-based program for District.  Attended BOCES and district demonstrations on curriculum mapping as part of initiative

2003-2005              Co-Founder and Co-Director of the East End Reading and Writing Project,

Long Island University, Southampton, NY campus

2002-2005              Lead Teacher, ELA, Grades 5-8, Southampton Schools

·         Chairperson Pre-K through 12 District Literacy Team

·         Involved in hiring key people for ELA program

·         Created summer reading program

·         Oversaw, wrote and mapped balanced literacy curriculum grades 5-8, and involved in elementary and high school curriculum writing as well

·         Helped raise district ELA scores to higher levels than had been previously reached

·         Conducted numerous BOE presentations

·         Trained in word study approach to spelling and word work

·         Conducted classroom observations

1993-2001              Teacher of English—Grades 9-12 and Project Advance Writing Program,

Syracuse University; ESL-ELA Team Teacher, East Hampton High School,

East Hampton, NY

1991-1993       Teacher of Reading and Language Arts, Oneida Middle School, Schenectady, NY, Grades 6-7

·         Arts in Education Coordinator

EDUCATION:

2004-Present  Doctoral Student (A.B.D.), Ed.D., Educational Leadership and

                        Administration, St. John’s University

                        Working on Dissertation, Possible Topic:  Literacy on Long Island

2005                School District Administration Certification (SDA) (SAS), C.W. Post,

                        Long Island University

1991                Master of Arts in Teaching English, Union College, Schenectady, NY

1989                Master of Education, Human Services and Administration, Springfield College, Springfield, MA

1988                Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

1987                Program of Irish Studies, Irish History and Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

1986                Certificate, Office Management and Information Skills, Katharine Gibbs School, Boston, MA

AWARDS:

1996                National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Fellowship with Honorarium

1988                Teaching Fellowship with Honorarium, Springfield College

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Council of Teachers of

English, Phi Delta Kappa Intl., National Staff Development Council, International Reading

Association

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST