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Rhonda Weebly Resume March 2021
Rhonda Weebly Resume March 2021
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Education
Texas Woman’s University, Masters in Library Science (MLS)
Dallas, Texas 2008
➢ Library initiatives and school involvement: Banned Book Week; Get Caught Reading; Reading
Olympics; bookfair; International Day
Rabat American School, Rabat, Morocco - Secondary Librarian Assistant, 2007-2012
➢ Team taught cross culture and technology class unit and set up Skype exchanges between
Moroccan and United States students, grades 7th -8th (Findings presented at the ECIS
conference, Hamburg, Germany.).
➢ Oversaw circulation and patron management.
➢ Assisted in collection development by de-selecting materials, indexing, and conducting
inventory.
➢ Created and ran RAS Petite Triathlon and Give Us Your Soles local charity events.
➢ Taught online citation generators and research skills. (Findings presented at the International
Association of School Librarianship, Qatar).
➢ Library initiatives and school involvement: Get Caught Reading; RAS Petite Triathlon;
Candlelight Read Aloud
COMMITTEES & LEADERSHIP
Oversee Committee, Universal American School
Curriculum Committee, Universal American School
CIS Accreditation Task Force, Universal American School
Middle School Reading Task Force, Universal American School
High School Reading Task Force, Universal American School
Technology Think Tank Task Force, Universal American School
Stipend Committee, Universal American School
Professional Development Committee, Universal American School
Silent Sustained Reading, UCSI International School
TESOL Arabia Conference Chair, Zayed University
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Co-presenter: ECIS Librarian Conference (February 2018)
Training: Follett Destiny 16.0
Conference: Near East South Asia council of Overseas Schools, Bahrain, Oman
Conference: European Conference On Environmental Literacy, Estonia
Certification: IB Librarians, Across the Continuum, Category 1-3,
aking it Happen, Instructor
Certification: IB PYP, M
Conference Presenter: International Association School Libraries
Zotero Citation Generator, Qatar
Certification: IB Diploma Program, Librarians
Conference: Jefferson Overseas Schools Technology Institute, Washington D.C.
Course: American Library Association, B ooktalking
Course: American Library Association, Fundamentals of Collection Development
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and Management
Conference: European Conference for International Schools, Istanbul
Conference Presenter: Using Wikis to Promote Cross-cultural Student Relations, Lisbon
Workshop Presenter: English as a Second Language Writing Skills, A bu Dhabi
Conference Presenter: Costa Rica Association of Teachers, T
he Participatory Approach by Paulo
Freire, San Jose
EXTRACURRICULAR INVOLVEMENT
Week Without Walls, Laos Trip Leader, UAS
Week Without Walls, F riends of the Library, UAS
Week Without Walls, Chaperone
Poetry Slam, UAS
Prom Committee, faculty sponsor, UAS
Student Government, faculty sponsor, UCSI
RAS Petite Triathlon, founder and organizer, RAS
Children's Hospital, chaperone student volunteers, RAS
Week Without Walls Chaperone, RAS
International Culture Day Organizer, Zayed University
CERTIFICATIONS, ONLINE TECHNOLOGY, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Certifications: Google Certified Educator Level 1
Yoga Teacher
Management systems: Blackboard, Google Classroom, Follett Destiny
Teacher of Distinction: South Korea Ministry of Education
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Emirates Literature Foundation
European Council of International Schools
International Association of School Librarianship
American Library Association
REFERENCES
Natalia Walchi, Gulliver Pedagogical Coach nataliawalchli@gmail.com
Andrew Torris, UAS Director atorris@avenues.org
Pat Hould, UAS Principal phould@dunecrest.ae
Perry Tkachuk, UCSI, PYP Coordinator Principal@plkis.edu.hk
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