Resume

• 2009

  Spanish

  Italian

  MA

  Certificates in Postsecondary Reading and Teaching Composition

  May 2012.\n\nMA Thesis: \"The Birth Narrative in Postcolonial Autobiography: Salman Rushdie and Bessie Head.\"\n\nPublications/Conferences:\nWorkshop: “A Bite Out of the Elephant: Teaching Reading and Writing with Difficult Texts” presented at Northern California College Reading Association (NCCRA) Annual Conference

  De Anza College

  March 2012.\n\nEssay: “‘To Prove that Beauty Best which Not the Colour but the Feature’: Negotiating Sexual and Racial Power in The Masque of Blackness” published in Interpretations

  San Francisco State University

  May 2011.\n\nEssay: “Truth-telling: The Rise and Fall of Relationships and Empire in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India” presented at San Francisco State University’s Explications Conference

  April 2011.

  English: Literature

  Graduate Literature Association

  Composition and Reading Association for Future Teachers

  San Francisco State University

• 1999

  Project Peace

  Marketing

  Publicity

  Nonprofits

  Editing

  Copy Editing

  Public Speaking

  Grant Writing

  Research

  Publishing

  Journalism

  Public Relations

  ESL

  Blogging

  News Writing

  Creative Writing

  Non-profits

  Teaching

  Proofreading

  Fundraising

  Copywriting

  Todd

  I am a passionate teacher dedicated to increasing student engagement through authentic inquiry and helping students improve reading and writing skills across rhetorical contexts. I am committed to fostering a classroom community where students feel respected and challenged to grow in a supportive environment that opens their eyes to real-world complexities and helps them explore how to meaningfully contribute to the major issues of our day.

  Beth

  Todd

  Transcend Translations

  HELP ONE CHILD

  Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

  San Francisco State University

  San Francisco State University

  Campus Academic Resource Program

  SFSU

  College of San Mateo

  Davis

  CA

  •\tChecked for content missed by translators

  corrected layout and typographical errors using editor style sheet.

  Proofreader

  Transcend Translations

  San Jose

  CA

  •\tDeveloped community contacts and cultivated story leads

  checked facts

  and wrote three to seven news and feature articles weekly.

  Staff Reporter

  Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

  •\tDevised and taught integrated reading and writing curriculum designed to help first-year composition students exercise critical thinking skills and develop academic argumentation.\n•\tResponded to student writing at various stages of the writing process

  encouraging revision.\n•\tEvaluated student performance on a variety of written and oral assignments.\n

  Graduate Teaching Associate

  San Francisco Bay Area

  San Francisco State University

  •\tFacilitated an online summer pre-enrollment English requirement course for incoming first-year students and conducted online conferences with students.\n•\tDesigned and taught a second-year composition course focusing on academic inquiry in diverse fields culminating in a disciplinary research essay about a policy controversy within the student's major.

  Adjunct English Instructor

  San Francisco Bay Area

  San Francisco State University

  •\tWrote and monitored internal and external communications including quarterly newsletter

  marketing collateral

  fundraising drives and grant proposals

  partner correspondence

  and internal reporting requirements.\n•\tPresented workshops on client services and volunteer recruitment. \n•\tManaged media coverage and “The Home for Every Child” foster home recruitment campaign.\n

  Campaign Manager

  San Francisco Bay Area

  HELP ONE CHILD

  •\tClarified tutoring goals with undergraduate and graduate students

  assessed area of highest concern

  offered personalized strategies at various stages of writing processes along a continuum of skill levels in more than 300 tutorial sessions.\n•\tFacilitated and presented workshops on test-taking strategies

  peer review

  and the role of affect in the tutor-tutee relationship.\n\n

  Writing Tutor

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Campus Academic Resource Program

  SFSU

  San Francisco Bay Area

  •\tTaught several levels of basic skills pre-transfer level English

  transfer level reading and composition (English 1A)

  and transfer level composition in literature (English 1B). \n•\tConferenced regularly with students on essay development and revision through office hours

  Writing Center

  and online appointments.\n•\tWrote supplemental curriculum for the Innovation Grant Award for a Paperless Writing Center.\n•\tPresented at a college-wide professional development training to demonstrate techniques and student work using the Reading Apprenticeship model.\n•\tParticipated in faculty teaching circles on reading

  basic skills curriculum

  and student success.\n

  Adjunct English Instructor

  College of San Mateo

  BA

  Studied abroad at University for Foreigners

  Perugia

  Italy (2002)

  English

  University Gospel Choir

  Ecological Garden volunteer

  CalAggie news writer

  Golden Key Honor Society

  UC Davis