Kristen Schneider Ray

Enthusiastic educator at the high school level dedicated to utilizing a passion for teaching and creating a safe learning environment. Goal is to help students develop strong communication skills, maximize achievements, and prepare them as productive citizens in their future endeavors and education. Aims to foster student growth through written expression and reading complex texts. Focuses on creating a positive and respectful learning environment that engages students of various learning levels and styles. Enhances social experiences by promoting student leadership, student-centered activities, and collaboration. Skilled in using a variety of teaching strategies and differentiated instruction to reach out to all learners, including physical demonstrations, drawn illustrations, audio books, and visual presentations.

• Writing personal poetry, and memoirs with my students in order to help them grow as individuals.
• Facilitating debates, Socratic seminars, and discussions to help students develop their communication skills to appropriately engage with their peers on various topics of study.
• Next Generation Club Sponsor, 2010 - 2022, Organizing weekly club meetings with guest speakers and community projects for students who attend weekly meetings.
• PBIS committee chairperson, 2019 - 2021, Event planning for both students and teachers in collaboration with committee member: administration, teachers, and students.