COURTNEY C.

GREY

EDUCATION
Boston College – Chestnut Hill, MA Expected completion: May 2020
Master of Education in Elementary Education and Moderate Disabilities (K-8)
Stonehill College – North Easton, MA May 2016
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Gender & Sexuality Studies, summa cum laude

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION & SPECIAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Grade-Level Assistant (Grade III)
The Park School, Brookline, MA Apr 2018 – present
• Assist Grade III classroom teachers with unit preparation and support during instruction and project periods
• Coordinate daily Grade III dismissal, carpool, and recess duties
• Provide classroom coverage for teacher collaboration meetings and teacher absences
Teaching Apprentice (Grades II & III)
The Park School, Brookline, MA Aug 2017 – present
• Enhance and design units, lessons, and assessments formulated on models of differentiated instruction
• Draft, prepare, and carry out full takeover experiences for both Grade II and Grade III classrooms
• Weekly one-on-ones with Director of Apprentices to receive feedback on lesson planning, assessment, and practice
• Weekly cohort seminars addressing a range of curricular topics such as student case studies, backward design
planning, best pedagogical practices, sense of belonging, and differentiated instruction
• Partner with mentor teacher in writing and delivering student evaluations and facilitating positive, goal-setting
conversations with families of students during parent-teacher conferences
• Practice Responsive Classroom to advance a pro-social learning community and individual academic and social-
emotional growth within the elementary classroom
• Participate in professional development workshops on executive functioning and collaborative problem solving as
child-centered behavior management strategies
• Committed white ally of both Park’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and Seeking Equity and
Educational Diversity (SEED) Community
• Generate and facilitate after-school programming that engages K-III students in problem solving, fine motor skill
development, collaboration and compromise, and exploration
• Co-coach a Girls on the Run of Greater Boston team with curriculum focused on self-empowerment and social
emotional learning for female-identified students
Assistant Education Coordinator | Lutheran Volunteer Corps
Hilltop Lutheran Neighborhood Center, Wilmington, DE Aug 2016 – July 2017
• Served one post-graduate year of service in the urban community of Wilmington, DE, while striving to serve, teach,
and live justly, mindfully, and in community with my students and their families
• Coordinated after-school academic assistance services and implemented supplemental, culturally relevant curriculum
for upwards of 75, urban elementary and middle school students
• Planned, tracked and adjusted individualized Response to Intervention (RTI) plans, utilizing the DIBELS
standardized reading evaluation, Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), and in-house assessments
• Served as the professional liaison between the educator(s), administrator(s), guardian(s), and student to facilitate
effective collaboration among all parties involved in the student’s academic journey
• Performed quarterly, in-classroom student observations to track academic, social-emotional, and behavioral
progress to inform our own individualized academic and behavior management programs within the Center
• Partnered with Summer Learning Collaborative of Wilmington, DE to implement strategic, experiential curriculum
in our summer camp programming to curb summer learning loss and narrow the academic achievement gap
• Participated in an intensive, three-day Undoing Racism retreat by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond to
productively confront whiteness and white fragility, systemic community gentrification, and implicit bias
 COURTNEY C. GREY

Lead Counselor | Education Intern | Athletic Programmer

Camp Shriver at Stonehill, North Easton, MA July 2014 – July 2017
• Coached and mentored multiple groups of urban, elementary-age campers with and without moderate intellectual
disabilities through a one-month, sports-based inclusion camp
• Created and facilitated athletic and arts-related programming through the lens of differentiated instruction by
placing specific attention on the individual intellectual, social-emotional, and physical abilities of each camper
• Quantitatively tracked pro-social and anti-social behaviors of campers to collect concrete data and to demonstrate
the social-emotional growth of campers over the four weeks of counselor-led, inclusion-based camp activities
• Motivated all campers to embrace and respect diversity of race, socioeconomic status, gender, and ability through
relationship-building and inclusive play

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION WORK

IDEAS Program Student Facilitator
Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 2015 – 2016
• Self-created and facilitated a one-credit, semester-long college course titled, “As If! Gender in the 90s” as one of
nine selected courses under the competitive IDEAS Program (Integrating Democratic Education at Stonehill)
• Utilized 1990s and 2000s pop culture and media as a medium to introduce introductory-level gender, feminist, and
critical race theory to students with little to no previous exposure to course material
• Applied backward design planning to develop a comprehensive, undergraduate-level syllabus
• Implemented a democratic education model to ensure students actively participated in structuring and engaging
with their own course material, class discussions, and learning processes
• Researched and employed various facilitation strategies such as experiential learning, flipped classroom, and
authentic instruction that engaged assorted learning styles
ALANA-A Leader & Mentor
Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 2015 – 2016
• African, Latinx, Asian, Native American & (White) Allies Leadership and Mentorship Program founded on the
inclusion of and advocacy for students of color at a predominantly white institution
• Facilitated low- to high-risk diversity and inclusion activities for incoming first-year college students to confront and
engage in conversations about systems of privilege and oppression and the complexities and intersections of identity
Undergraduate Research Assistant | Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience Scholar
Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 2015 – 2016
• Co-conducted a qualitative, interview-based research project exploring faculty and student experiences of racial,
ethnic, and intersectionality discussions in liberal arts college classrooms at predominately white institutions
• Developed seasoned and effective qualitative interviewing and statistical analysis skills and techniques
• Selected to present research findings at the January 2016 Lilly Conference for Teaching & Learning in Austin, TX

CERTIFICATIONS
CPR/First Aid Certified | 2016
DIEEC (Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood) School-Age Site Assistant | 2016
State of Delaware Office of Childcare Licensing Certified Administrator of Medicine | 2017