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Last updated on 2023-11-20.

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Matthew McClellan

Education

Ed.M in Secondary English, Teacher Education Program

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Cambridge, MA

2016 - 2015

  • Completed teaching practicum as grade 12 English teacher in district pilot high school.
  • Coursework in digital humanities.

B.A. in English, History

Amherst College

Amherst, MA

2011 - 2007

  • Graduated with Distinction (top 25% of class).
  • Concentrated in 20th century poetry and the history of science, technology, and medicine.

Check out my final reflection on my time at HGSE. I also created a “distant reading” project: Topic Modeling Equiano and the Slave Narrative Genre

Teaching Experience

I love experimenting with new tools; during my time at MVHS I started teaching myself R so I could do exploratory analysis of data from our district’s data dashboard. I also used R to build this resume!

Substitute Teacher

High Desert Education Service District

Sisters, OR

current - Aug 2023

  • Substitute teaching within the Sisters and Bend-Lapine districts after relocating to Central Oregon.

English Teacher & Course Team Leader

Mountain View High School

Mountain View, CA

Jun 2023 - Aug 2017

  • Courses taught: Grade 10 college prep (2017-23), grade 12 college prep (2017-23), grade 12 AP English Literature (2019-20).
  • ERWC-certified instructor. Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) is a college prep course developed with Cal State University focused on rhetoric, critical reading, and writing.
  • Co-created “Literature, Culture & Society,” a senior-level course incorporating ERWC methods.
  • Course-team leader (2019-23). Revised curriculum and instruction to accommodate needs of remote (synchronous and asynchronous), hybrid, and in-person learning as district policies shifted.
  • Co-taught sections of both grade 10 and 12 (2021-22), collaborating with a special education teacher to differentiate instruction and assessments (especially process writing and complex research tasks).
  • Integrated data collected from formative assessments (primarily via Google Forms and Gradecam), district dashboard (Datazone), and gradebook/SIS (Aeries) to track student performance over time and monitor course team, department, and district goals.

Founding English Teacher

Alpha: Cindy Avitia High School

San Jose, CA

Jun 2017 - Jul 2016

  • Taught five periods of ninth grade English, serving 160 total students, including approximately 37% ELL, 45% RFEP, 10% newcomer immigrants.
  • Created all original unit and lesson plans, aligned with Common Core standards as well as network-wide quarterly assessments.
  • Reflected on student data from exit tickets, formative assessments, in-progress writing and projects to plan re-teaching, targeted remediation, other interventions.

Student Teacher

Another Course to College

Boston, MA

May 2016 - Sep 2015

  • Facilitated daily seminar discussions with focus on coaching student skills in analysis, comprehension, critical consciousness.
  • Co-designed and led field trip to Museum of Fine Arts focused on close readings of visual art and physical space, development of a postcolonial lens to analyze and resist portrayals of power.
  • Designed and taught unit on Poetry of the Caribbean, built companion unit website to facilitate digital text annotation and discussion.

The Omeka site I created for my Caribbean poetry unit incorporated the genius.com web annotator, allowing students to have second-screen, asynchronous, or silent discussions.

Other Experience

Student Coordinator & GED Tutor

Youth Interactive

Santa Barbara, CA

May 2015 - Sep 2014

  • Managed daily operation of Youth Interactive, a non-profit after-school center serving youth ages 14-24. Programs focused on arts, entrepreneurship, and technology, with students running micro businesses. Over 80% of youth came from low-income households, and over 50% on probation or had criminal records.
  • Tutored and developed personal study plans for students ages 20-22 working towards GED.

Research Assistant & Writer

Harvard Kennedy School

Project on Municipal Innovation

Jul 2014 - Jun 2013

  • Planned and hosted twice annual three-day conferences to promote innovation in city government, attended by mayor’s chiefs of staff from 35 largest U.S. cities, policy experts, Harvard faculty.
  • Wrote articles based on interviews with city officials for project website, Data-Smart City Solutions.
  • Researched and wrote for faculty director’s projects, including two published books and columns for Governing and GovTech magazines.

Communications Assistant

Harvard University

Office of Public Affairs & Communications

Jun 2013 - Sep 2011

  • Composed media prep briefs for president, provost, other senior leaders.
  • Conducted real time news monitoring, with aggregated reports at close of business and breaking news alerts throughout the day.
  • Reported and wrote stories on campus arts & culture for Harvard Gazette, the University’s official news source.

Find samples of my published writing at matthewmcclellan.com/writing