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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
June 2024 - 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
- Conducted needs assessment leading to department revising course offerings. Presented analysis synthesizing multiple years of achievement data, student demographics, and state testing.
- Designed and taught a new senior-level course to align with the need for CSU-approved course identified above.
- Developed curriculum and delivered instruction for remote (both live and asynchronous) elearning, hybrid, and in-person learning.
- Created instructional screencasts and facilitated training sessions for colleagues in multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS).
- As course-team leader (2019-23), led colleagues in cycles of inquiry to analyze student performance data, evaluate lesson effectiveness, improve future lessons, and share insights with department.
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.
- 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.
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
Social Studies Teacher
Sisters Middle School
Sisters, OR
present - Aug 2024