Special Education Social Media

Tara Crowley

203-***-**** email: ad9ovu@r.postjobfree.com

Library Department Head

Experienced teacher, director and department head skilled in stretching budgets, successful grant-writing, and various fundraising efforts for over 20 years. Successful community engagement and project management with various stakeholders.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Department Management

Training and Supervision

Grant Writing/Fundraising

Community Engagement

Teaching & Lesson Planning

Collection & Curriculum Development

Budgeting

Social Media

Program Development

Child Development

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Special Education Teacher and Coordinator

1986-2006

Public and Private Special Education Schools in NH

After earning my master's degree in Special Education, I specialized in teaching students with Developmental Delays on the spectrum at innovative private schools before branching out to public schools.

CHRONOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

(Most recent first)

Head of Youth Services 2014-2021

Conway Public Library, Conway, NH

Directed all youth services, birth to young adult: Programming, marketing, collection development, grant-writing, budget, teaching, outreach to multiple schools/preschools and community stakeholders with engagement and communication with team members. Supervised and evaluated staff, volunteers, and interns.

●Ran a successful and busy youth services department in a four-library collaborative.

●Wrote and awarded yearly grants up to six figures.

●Created, ran, and evaluated multiple projects and pilot programs spanning audiences and diverse topics to engage youth, families, and their community.

●Managed a busy calendar for in-house, outreach, and community programs for in-person and virtual offerings for four libraries.

●Efficient marketing of library services to visitors and patrons through communication, customer service, social media, print, virtual and in-person presentations, and story-writing.

●Created, ran, and evaluated the annual summer reading program from 8-16 weeks, for over 300 participants of all ages. Quickly pivoted to adjust to Covid-19 by running an interactive virtual program on multiple platforms.

●Partnered closely with schools and state agencies for public school accreditation, curriculum, presentations, teaching lessons/units, stories, book talks, book orders, projects, summer reading and more.

●Wrote, recorded, presented live, and shared original, interactive fairy tale performances to various platforms for school and community engagement. Customized google sheets to share links to tie-in craft instructions, original Kahoot quizzes, original YouTube channel, library, and community resources related to each story.

●Produced virtual libraries for website, created and updated YouTube channel, new software learned and used regularly.

●Collection Development across departments, materials, audiences, and community demographics.

●Certified Family Place Library Professional, five years.

●Secured community early learning professionals and parents for the Parent-Child Workshop and provided training to family place assistants.

Library Director 2010-2014

Campton Public Library, Campton, NH

Responsible for all library programming, vision and growth. Managed the development and implementation of the library’s mission following state RSA’s and goals; ensuring they were integrated into library policies, practices, collection development, and programming.

●Increased library patronage by 10% (to of town population) through community engagement.

●Built the annual library budget with trustees and advocated at town committees.

●Recruited, supervised, and evaluated staff and volunteers.

●Designed and implemented all outreach, collaboration, public relations, print, social media, and grant writing resulting in increased patronage, increased offerings, and increased use of the library.

●Brought library programs from 0 per year to over 100 per year in a small community budget through grants and fundraising.

●Created a successful summer reading program culminating in annual line-item funding.

●Provided welcoming, diverse, and unique materials, lessons, and programs engaging pre-schools, schools, businesses, agencies, and individuals.

●Designed and maintained the library website, Facebook page, and monthly column for local newspapers. New software learned and used regularly.

●Collection Development across departments and materials.

●Recruited, supervised, and evaluated staff and volunteers.

●Completed all trainings offered by the NH State Library in librarianship and social media.

Call Center Supervisor

2006-2010

Plymouth State University

●Trained, supervised, evaluated college students to fundraise for the annual fund and retain student workers.

●Created programs and incentives to meet the annual fundraising goals.

●Ensured systems for donor followup and gratitude year to year.

EDUCATION

●M.S.- Special Education Southern Connecticut State University. New Haven/Lisbon, CT

●B.A. – English Education / Spanish Concentration. Plymouth State University. Plymouth, NH

●Completed all offerings from NH State Library on librarianship and social media, 2010-2014

Professional Associations

●Moderator for YA Author Panel at the Montreal YA Fest, Jewish Public Library, Montreal, Quebec. May 2022.

●Just Write! - Creator and facilitator of all-age writing group 2011- 2022.

●Member The Narrative Method Writing Groups - 2021 - 2024

●MWV After School Enrichment - founding member of multiple agency partnership providing enrichment for the youth of Mount Washington Valley, NH. Wrote and received $100,000 funding grant 2020-2021.

●NELA Conference presenter, 2021

●NHLA - member, 2013-2021, board member 2013-2015

●Carroll County Early Childhood Coalition – (CCECC) Conway, NH member, 2015-2021

●NEASC Accreditation team member for local SAU, 2019

●SERESC School Accreditation Team – Review requirements and school practices, make recommendations for accreditation and review. 2006, 2019

●ALA member - 2014-2019

●Friends of Conway Public Library - Youth Services Liaison- 2014-2019

●President of the Children’s Librarians of NH. CHILIS – NH Children’s Librarians -

Vice President 2013-2014, President 2014-2015, Past President 2015-2016

●CHILIS conference presenter, 2015

●Secretary for the Scrooge and Marley regional library collaborative. 2012-2013

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