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Heidi Hutchison

 

Qualifications Summary

 

Eighteen years of education leadership experience in 21st century teaching:

 

  • Leadership and collaboration

  • Global Service Learning/PBL

  • Community Partnerships

  • Curriculum development

  • Innovation in instructional design

  • Design Thinking

 

Professional Experience

Friends School of Baltimore – Baltimore, Maryland                                              7/2019 – Present

Middle School Principal, 6-8

  • Design and oversee a hybrid-learning program that supports distance and in-person learning.

  • Develop, refine, and implement a vision for education in the Middle School that fulfills the objectives of the Teaching and Learning at Friends School Paradigm.

  • Provide leadership and oversight of the curriculum, assuming responsibility for revision and modification where appropriate.

  • Inspire and foster innovative thought and practice within the division.

  • Collaborate with the Faculty Meeting Chairs regarding faculty meetings and other relevant matters.

  • Ensure that the division’s practices reflect and affirm the School’s Quaker values.

  • Develop and carry out a program for orientation, evaluation and professional development of the division’s faculty, staff, and administrators.

  • Lead the hiring process for Middle School positions, seeking out appropriate recruitment opportunities, especially for diverse candidates, and make recommendations for hiring to the Head of School.

  • Further the School’s commitment to equity and inclusion in all aspects of the Middle School program.

  • Redesign, in collaboration with the Dean of School Culture the discipline process to incorporate restorative practices.

  • Communicate regularly and proactively with Middle School faculty, staff, and families to ensure the clear and steady flow of all relevant information.

  • Create the divisional calendar and schedule, in coordination with other divisions.

  • Participate as a member of the Middle School admission process in conjunction with the Head of School and the Director of Admission.

  • Supervise the disbursement of relevant budgets and capital expenditures.

  • Collaborate effectively with fellow members of the Administrative and Academic Councils to steward the School and its ongoing growth and development.

 

Friends Select School – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                                                 8/2018– Present

Director of City Curriculum, K-12

  • Develop positive and productive relationships with leaders from the academic, cultural, scientific, non-profit, and business community in Philadelphia.

  • Nurture and maintain partnerships between Friends Select School and Philadelphia organizations in order to deepen existing relationships.

  • Attend events in the city that involve social justice, service or other possible connections that deepen the learning of Friends Select students.

  • Document student interactions with the city through using social media such as Instagram and Twitter.

  • Support teachers so that they consistently utilize the city as a resource in their teaching and learning.

  • Regularly contribute to marketing utilizing social media

  • Collaboratively develop and communicate a clear vision for teaching and learning so that the Friends Select School curriculum connects knowing and doing to the resources in the city.

  • Collaboratively develop a city-based curriculum.

  • Create systems and processes to support and ensure that students see the city as a resource and an extension of their classroom.

  • Design and lead divisional and cross divisional diversity training paired with city curriculum experiences.

  • Facilitate cross-divisional professional development integrating service learning into curriculum utilizing project-based learning and other pedagogies

  • Utilize social media and other methods of communication so that the larger community in Philadelphia (and nationally) recognizes the unique learning that Friends Select School affords students due to its city location and programming.

  • Lead faculty in professional development to establish consistent messaging about City Curriculum.

  • Support action research, and any public writing endeavors that highlight the benefits of place-based learning, community partnerships, and service learning at Friends Select by providing available resources.

  • Collaboratively develop model for “private school with a public purpose” with members of the community.

 

Friends School of Baltimore – Baltimore, Maryland                                             8/2005 - 6/2018

  • Director of Community Partnerships, K-12, 2016-present

  • Initiated and provided rationale to use “community partnerships” as our umbrella language which includes service learning

  • Initiated, designed and manage community partnerships online resource for faculty, students and parent community

  • Developed and maintain online community partnerships news letter.

  • Instituted and  Clerk Community Partnerships Committee with cross-divisional faculty representatives

  • Created and advise Student Community Partnerships Committee with cross-divisional student representatives

  • Implemented Service Learning Ambassadors Committee for Admissions Department

  • Regularly contribute to marketing utilizing social media

  • Designed and led divisional and cross divisional diversity training

  • Collaborate and communicate with teachers and students cross-divisionally to support service learning in Baltimore City and globally

  • Initiated partnership with Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Potomac, Maryland

  • Manage school-wide Community Partnerships budget

  • Facilitate cross-divisional professional development integrating service learning into curriculum utilizing project-based learning and other pedagogies

  • Initiated, designed and facilitate monthly community partnership speaker sessions for faculty, students and parent communities

  • Created curriculum for social and sustainable entrepreneurship Upper School elective

  • Initiated partnerships with Johns Hopkins Social Innovations Lab and the Impact Hub for social and sustainable entrepreneurship elective course

  • Create  and maintain partnerships between Friends School and Baltimore City organizations  in order to deepen existing relationships and create new ones

  • Implemented annual community service learning with social justice components

  • Created and designed the Malala Project, A Global PBL (shared and used by over 2000 teachers worldwide) with various global and local community service learning projects

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Assistant Principal, Lower School, Pre-Primary, 2016-2018

  • Co-Chair Teaching and Learning Committee, 2014-present

  • Co-Chair  Faculty Meeting

  • Co-Chair Critical Friends Group

  • Quaker Principles Committee member

  • Manage multiple budgets

  • Responsible for providing observation feedback to faculty and member of evaluation teams

  • Member of hiring and admission committees

  • Led culture shift to a more collaborative and integrated team approach

  • Project-Based Learning (PBL) Global Teacher Leader

  • Designed and led blogging curriculum initiative

  • Created challenges for Edublogs Student Blogging Challenge

  • Initiated and coordinated fall and spring Kid EdCamps 2014-2016

  • Initiated, designed and led Project Learning Swap Meet Baltimore 2013

  • 4th Grade Teacher 2005-2012

  • 5th grade teacher 2012-2016

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Powerful Learning Practice – online                                                                10/2012 - 03/2013      Connected Coach

 

  • Designed and facilitated technology-rich learning environments using a strength based appreciative inquiry approach

  • Guided educators to appreciate and understand the importance of building and contributing to collective knowledge within a community

 

Giggey & Associates – Baltimore, Maryland                                                      11/2003 - 06/2012   Founder and Principal Tutor

 

  • Orton-Gillingham tutor

  • Built relationships with administrators and teachers in independent schools

  • Tutored students using the Orton-Gillingham Approach primarily with dyslexic students

 

Hebbville Elementary School – Baltimore, Maryland                                         08/2001 - 06/2003  4th/5th Grade Special Education Teacher

 

  • Managed caseload of 14 special education students

  • Implemented/wrote all educational assessments and individual education programs (IEPs)

  • Effectively used a differentiated teaching approach

 

Perry Hall Middle School – Baltimore, Maryland                                               08/1999 - 06/2000  6th Grade Case Manager/Inclusion Reading Teacher

 

  • Managed caseload of 35 special education students and taught reading to 125 students

  • Implemented/wrote all educational assessments and individual education programs (IEPs)

 

Northwood Elementary – Baltimore, Maryland                                                08/1998 - 06/1999 4th/5th Grade Teacher

 

  • Taught math, social studies, science and health to 32 fourth graders and 35 fifth graders

  • Effectively used a differentiated teaching approach

 

Professional Development

 

  • FLUX Pedagogy: Transformative Leadership in Times of Inequity, online                              12/2020

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  • Growth-Focused Observations, The Danielson Group, online                                              09/2020

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  • Leading Teachers Online, Global Online Academy                                                              08/2020

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  • Basic Restorative Practices, International Institute of Restorative Practices, PA                     07/2019

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  • Facilitating Restorative Conferences, IIRP, Bethlehem, PA                                                   07/2019

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  • National Diversity Practitioners Institute, CTTL, MD                                                           06/2019

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  • National Network of Schools in Partnership Conference, Washington, D.C.                            01/2019

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  • Disrupting Education Symposium, Ted Dintersmith, Perkiomen School, PA                   11/2018

 

  • Cheryl Irving Cultural Competency Institute: Rosetta Lee .                                         08/2018

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  • coLearn Conference, Winchester Thurston City, Pittsburgh, PA                                   06/2018

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  • Korda’s Entrepreneurship Course, Wildfire Education, Columbus, Ohio                          01/2018

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  • Bootcamp MOOC, User Innovation: A Pathway to Entrepreneurship, MITx                      01/2018

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  • How to Build a Startup, The Lean LaunchPad Online Class, Steve Blank                         12/2017

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  • Undoing Racism, The People's Institute, Loyola University, Baltimore, Maryland             11/2017

 

  • The Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Leadership Academy                                                                                   8/2017

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  • AIMS Diversity Conference, Zaretta Hammond                                                          10/2016

 

  • Clerking- Serving the Community with Joy and Confidence: attendee

       Pendle Hill, A Quaker Study, Retreat and Conference Center                                      11/2015

 

  • Project Based Learning World 2013 & 2014: attendee and presenter                                  Bucks Institute for Education, Napa Valley, CA                                                      2013, 2014                                                                                                   

  • Digital Citizenship, Digital Leadership, Leadership, Educational Technology       4/2014 - 5/2014

 

  • Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum Training                    4/2014                                      

  • EdCamp participant: Leadership, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington                       2013, 2014                                                              

  • Powerful Learning Practice, Yearlong Job-Embedded Professional Development 9/2011 - 6/2012

 

 

Professional Work Examples

 

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  • Cofounder, organizer, and facilitator of Kid EdCamp 2014, 2015 and 2016.  Kid EdCamp is an in person, student directed conference where curricular sessions are designed by and for students.

 

  • Kid EdCamp 2014 Blog:  The purpose of this blog was to be a resource to faculty not only across divisions within Friends School, but globally to see the advantages of having a Kid EdCamp and also learn the steps in creating one.

 

 

  • Creator and chief learner of The One and Only Ivan, A Global PBL:  This PBL was implemented using The Global Classroom site. This project site and fundraising is being continued by teachers across the globe and overseen by me. Teachers are able to use the Fluency21 lesson plan I created to guide them.

 

 

  • Student Blog Sites

     Friends of the Fifth Dimension

     Ms. Hutch’s Marvelous Math Students

     Kids Who Just Wanna Blog

 

Speaking Engagements

 

 

Workshops and Additional Projects

 

 

Awards and Mentions

 

 

 

Education

 

  • M.S.ED., School Leadership           University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015

  • Bachelor of Science in Education                   University of Delaware – Newark, Delaware 1998

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Certifications

  • Maryland State Department of Education Administrator II Certificate -       1/1/2019-12/31/2023

  • Maryland State Department of Education Administrator I Certificate,          1/1/2019-12/31/2023

  • Maryland State Department of Education Advance Professional Certificate, 1/1/2019-12/31/2023

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