Maddie Geller

Education
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Expected May 2021
Master of Education candidate, Reading Education
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; GPA: 4.0, summa cum laude May 2020
Bachelor of Science, Early Childhood Education and Second Language Studies
• Commencement Awards: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Undergraduate
Award for Research in the Practice of Teaching and Learning, The Banner Bearer
CET Academic Programs, Florence, Italy January-May 2019
Study abroad: Concentration in Italian language and cross-cultural psychology

Licensure
State of Delaware: Initial License August 2020
Early Childhood Education Birth-Grade 2 and Teacher of English Learners K-12
State of Tennessee: Practitioner Teacher May 2020
Early Childhood Education PreK-3 & English Language Learners PreK-12

Work Experience
Outschool, Remote August 2020- Present
Virtual Teacher
• Designing engaging virtual math, writing, and spelling classes for small groups
of elementary students, with over 140 unique learners taught
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN May 2020-Present
Graduate Research Assistant, Project DIMES
• Coordinated with the team to design morphology assessment for elementary students
[PRIVATE SCHOOL], Wilmington, DE August 2014-Present
Summer Lead Teacher (2019) & Summer Assistant Teacher (2014-2018)
• Created science-themed curriculum with literature connections for 15-20 preschoolers
• Communicated with parents daily in person and weekly via newsletter
[PRESCHOOL], Nashville, TN August 2018-March 2020
Student Worker
• Provided one-on-one support to ensure that students with disabilities could access
activities alongside typically developing peers

Selected Practicum Experience

[PUBLIC ELEMENTARY], Nashville, TN August 2020-Present
• Collaborative planning with the literacy coach to design 30-minute phonemic
awareness lesson plans for K-2 teachers; accommodated virtual and in-person students
[PUBLIC ELEMENTARY], Nashville, TN January-February 2020
• Steadily increased teaching responsibilities in a classroom of 18 Pre-K students
(70% English learners), culminating in 3 weeks of solo teaching
[PUBLIC ELEMENTARY], Nashville, TN September-December 2019
• Planned and led a small group of five emerging readers using Fountas & Pinnell
levels Pre-A to B, following the Jan Richardson guided reading model
[CHARTER ELEMENTARY], Nashville, TN September-December 2018
• Adapted social studies and science reading materials to be comprehensible for all
second grade students, utilizing linked text sets
[PRIVATE ELEMENTARY], Nashville, TN January-May 2018
• Modified second grade whole group mathematics content to correspond with the
school’s unique story-based place value curriculum

Campus Leadership
Kappa Delta Pi January 2018-May 2020
Honor Society Member and Treasurer (2019-2020)