ALEXANDRA

1579 21st Court North

Arlington, VA 22209

SUNDMAN
(646) 436 0016
alexandra.sundman@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
National Cathedral School, Washington, DC, English Teacher and Advisor
2010-present

Design & implement literature, grammatical & writing curricula for 6 th- /8th-grade English
Middle School Half-in-Earnest Advisor
Multiple committee participations: AIMS Reaccreditation; LS Schedule; Faculty Evaluation;
various hiring committees
Co-led LS Book-a-Thon (raised $4K for Home of Grace, Cambodia); MAESA Spelling-Bee
Moderator
Attended numerous professional development workshops, notably in the areas of
readers & writers workshops; teaching persuasive writing; teaching with iPads;
neurology of reading disabilities; diversity and social justice; implications of executive
function disorders in the classroom
Admissions Reader for NCS applicant files; currently mentoring an English teacher intern;
mentor to new faculty
Works taught include: The Tempest, Kindred, Animal Farm, Things Fall Apart, Black Ships
Before Troy, 12 Angry Men,
Inside Out and Back Again, Greek mythology, Stargirl, The Giver; misc. essays, poetry and
short stories

Convent of the Sacred Heart, NY, NY, Middle School English/Homeroom Teacher

2001-03,
2008-10
Established Critical Friends chapter at Sacred Heart
Co-led committee to redesign CSHs professional evaluation & development process
Implemented leading-edge technology in classroom; hands-on experience with Web and
Moodle page design, SMARTBoard applications, digital forums & blogs, Web quests, and
Audacity
Supervised publication of Middle School literary magazine, Faces of the Fourth Floor
Designed and implemented literature, grammatical & writing curricula for 5 th 7th-grade
English courses
Received grant to revamp grammar scope and sequence for Middle School English
Department
Works taught included: To Kill a Mockingbird; Of Mice and Men; Much Ado About
Nothing; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Flowers for Algernon; A Raisin in the Sun; Pride &
Prejudice; The House on Mango Street, The Outsiders; Habibi; Walk Two Moons; The
Giver; Harlem Renaissance poetry

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, MD, English Teacher

2004-06
Upper School English teacher: sophomore British literature and junior honors American
literature
Designed year-long research project curriculum for honors American literature students;
wrote college recommendation letters for over 90% of junior class; led student advisory
group
Prepared 50 students for AP Language exam; all earned scores of 4 or 5 on exam
Integrated cross-curricular material in disciplines of art history, music history, history,
and religion
Works taught included: Frankenstein; The Quiet American; Romantic and WWI poets;
1984; Macbeth; The Things They Carried; Death of a Salesman; The Bluest Eye; The Sun
Also Rises; The Sound and the Fury; The Woman Warrior; Huckleberry Finn; Walden;
misc. 19- and 20th-century British & American texts

The Churchill School, New York, NY, Assistant Teacher

1999-2001
Elementary school generalist (1999-2000); 8th - and 9th-grade English teacher (2000-01)

Yale University, New Haven

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Yale College

1994-99

Crafted, taught & graded 10 term-long courses in areas of music theory, aesthetics,
history, & composition

Facilitator/Organizer, Working at Teaching (WAT)

Led series of graduate-level workshops on topics such as: pedagogy, ethics of teaching,
diversity in the
classroom, teaching writing, grading, and learning styles
Organized university-wide colloquia on course design, lecturing skills, diversity, and
gender issues

EDUCATION
Yale University, Ph.D., M.Phil., Musicology
1999
Awards: Whiting Fellowship, Prize Teaching Fellowship, Beinecke Library Scholarship,
Mellon Traveling
Fellowship (twice), Enders Research Fellowship, Yale Merit Scholarship
Activities:
Deans Teaching-Fellow Committee, Yale Early Music Ensemble,
Elizabethan Club, McDougall
Graduate Center Planning Committee, Gamelan Society

Boston University, B.A., History, magna cum laude; B. Mus., Music, summa cum
laude
1991
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa; recipient of both History Dept. and Music Dept. highest G.P.A.
awards