Gretel von Bargen Professional Resume

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Professional Experience 
Skyline High School, Sammamish, WA
2002 to present
Teacher of higher level International Baccalaureate biology (eleventh and twelfth grade).  
  
Teacher Leadership
  • International Baccalaureate Biology Curriculum Review committee member (for first exams in 2023)
  • State and National selection committee member for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science teaching for the National Science Foundation
  • Member of Washington State Teacher Advisory Council  
  • National Board Certification facilitator for candidates working on writing and filming entries
  • Co-chair of the University of Washington College of Education Professional Educators advisory board
  • Critical Friends Group facilitator (organize and participate in a cross-disciplinary professional learning community)
  • New Teacher Academy facilitator (lead district wide new teacher mentoring program for secondary teachers)
  • District grading pilot team member (piloting use of alternative report card grading systems)
  • Leading a staff of 80 teachers in a multi-year professional development student of "brain based" research and instructional strategies
  • ​Teacher representative on the district LASER committee (science inquiry implementation)
  • Teacher representative on curriculum scope, sequence and adoption committees (physical science and biology)
  • Powerful Teaching and Learning facilitator (lead groups of teachers though instructional rounds and reflection process using the STAR protocol)

Awards
Professional Development
  • Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow 
  • International Baccalaureate Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 workshop participant
  • Pre-publication reviewer for Barron's IB Biology test prep book 
  • Conference attendance (NABT, NSTA, AAAS)
  • Issaquah Technology Project

Publications
von Bargen, Gretel (2014, Spring). Differentiating for the Whole Class:  Ten Principles for Effective Teaching. Curriculum in Context 40(1), [29-30. Retrieved from http://www.wsascd.org/

Grants
Endorsements
Biology (4-12)
Science  (4-12)
Chemistry (4-12)
Anthropology (4-12)
Psychology (4-12)

Certificates
State of Washington Professional Education Certificate
Certificate type:  Professional teacher
Expiration date:  06/30/2018

National Board Teaching Certificate (initial and renewal)
Certificate type:  Adolescent and Young Adult Science, Biology
Expiration date:  11/09/2027

Professional Affiliations
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT)
University of Washington College of Education (UW-Ed)     
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE)

Biology Research Experience 
Earthwatch Team Leader
  • Nalta, Peru, 2014 and 2016.  Planned and facilitated an expedition for a group of 17 students to conduct aquatic and terrestrial field transects to monitor biodiversity in the Amazon river basin.
  • Santa Lucia, Ecuador, 2012:  Organized and traveled with a group of 18 former and current students to travel to an Ecuadorian cloud forest to aid in camera trap, bird diversity and carbon sequestration studies.     
  • Matura, Trinidad, 2010, 2011, and 2013: Arranged for groups of 14 current and former students to travel to Trinidad to
    assist with population studies of nesting leatherback sea turtles.           
  • San  Salavador, Bahamas, 2009: Arranged for a group of 17 current and former students to travel to a remote island in the Bahamas to assist with the longest running coral reef survey in the world.  Quadrat sampled, transect sampled, mapped and analyzed the health of an endangered coral reef.
  • La Selva Field Station, Costa Rica, 2017:  Facilitated a group of 18 students to volunteer on a field ecology project studying tri-trophic interactions between plants, caterpillars and parasites and the effects of climate change on the system. 

Earthwatch Fellow
Pantanal, Brazil, 2004:  Awarded a grant by the National Geographic Society for travel to assist with four on-going research projects at the Pantanal  Conservation Research Initiative field station in Brazil.  Tagged tracked peccaries, monitored water quality, and performed a bird  census.
 
Research Assistant
University of Washington Primate Center, Seattle, WA, 1998 to 1999:  Conducted experiments testing the effectiveness of enrichment tools as a method to increase captive primate foraging behavior.

Veterinary Assistant
Bodily Veterinary Hospital, Bellevue, WA, 1997 to 1999:  Contributed to operating all aspects of animal clinic, including client relations, computer record keeping, anesthesiology, radiology and surgery.

Research Assistant
Tingil Island, Indonesia, 1997:  Assisted in census taking of long tailed macaque monkeys on an uninhabited island.  Studied the relationship between draught conditions and the diet of monkeys. 
 
Zoo Intern
Woodland Park Zoological Gardens, Seattle, WA, 1996 to 1999: Responsible for husbandry and environmental enrichment of captive nocturnal zoo animals.
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."  -  John Muir,   1911