Kwame Sarfo-Mensah Email & Phone Number

Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zm

- Provide personalized mentorship and coaching to teachers via virtual online sessions and cultivate self-efficacy for mentees to excel in teaching and student engagement.- Produce and submit bi-weekly progress reports and learning artifacts to document professional growth of teacher mentees.

- Provide coaching and thought-partnership for school leaders on best practices for facilitating DEI and culturally responsive pedagogy training and implementation with AdaptiveX curriculum.- Facilitate high quality, research-based professional development to teachers and school leaders using a mixture of in-person and web-based training, virtual coaching, and unique assessments - Deliver keynote speeches and facilitated webinars about culturally responsive teaching to teachers and school leaders within the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE).- Write monthly original editorial pieces focused on culturally responsive teaching and learning.

Identity Talk Consulting, LLC. is an independent educational consulting firm that provides professional development and consulting services to educators all over the world who desire to enhance their instructional practices and develop into culturally responsive, identity-affirming educators.Through Identity Talk Consulting, we provide professional development and consulting services in the following areas:- Culturally Responsive Pedagogy- Anti-Bias & Anti-Racist (ABAR) Practices- Identity-Affirming Education- Math Tutoring

Remote

- Served as a co-facilitator for AfricanISE, an affinity group designed to provide social and emotional support to a cohort of 25 African educators of color within the international school ecosystem.- Organized and facilitated online forums, webinars, and other professional learning events for the AIELOC member community, including community visionings and the annual AIELOC Conference.- Supported existing professional partnerships with key stakeholders and international education partners such as Search Associates, International Support Services (ISS) and Council of International Schools (CIS) to build brand awareness and increase AIELOC’s impact within the international school ecosystem. - Designed flyers, newsletters, and other visual content to be used for promotion of AIELOC events and programs on social media.

Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone

-Model best instructional practices for teachers within the classroom.-Analyze teacher practice through ongoing classroom observations, data analysis , and examination of student work.-Facilitate content specific, professional, learning communities and lead cycles of lesson planning, content knowledge development, formative observations, and student work analysis tied to the Sierra Leonean Curriculum.-Monitor teacher performance and develop individualized teacher intervention plans based on identified needs of growth.

- Write monthly original editorial pieces focused on mathematics, social justice, and anti-bias, antiracist (ABAR) education issues.- Promote EdPost campaigns and increase brand awareness on EdPost and brightbeam's social media platforms. - Create visual content that explores various professional teacher practices or generates dialogue about current trends and issues in K-12 education.

Malden, Ma

• Organize efforts to recruit students of color from target communities at the high-school, community college or undergraduate level into the teaching profession.• Develop strategies for building a network of educators throughout the Commonwealth committed to a diverse workforce. • Increase the retention rates of current educators of color across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.• Support targeted school districts within the Commonwealth to more effectively develop the cultural proficiency of the educator workforce.

Greater Boston Area

• Create social justice, interdisciplinary, mathematics based lessons that are aligned to national Common Core Math standards.• Collaborate with secondary math teachers throughout the district to identify specific social justice topics that could be transformed into culturally relevant math lessons. • Facilitate district-wide teacher workshops on developing culturally relevant Math lessons.• Analyze student work to assess whether it aligns with district criteria for culturally relevant Math lessons.

Boston, Ma

• Impart subject-specific instruction intended to bring student progress to present educational goals.• Coordinate with BPS Math teachers to develop and implement cohesive lessons that encourages students to engage in cognitively demanding mathematical tasks. • Manage student behavior and resolve conflicts.• Provide academic and social counseling to students based on individual needs.• Serve as the middle school math faculty representative for the Instructional Leadership Team.

Greater Boston Area

"Shaping the Teacher Identity" was written as a response to the many challenges and frustrations that come with being an educator within the public school system. The 173 pages in this book are meant to guide the reader through a self-exploration of their life and help them extract the inherent qualities that uniquely define who they are (or will be) as change agents within the classroom. The content within the book represents a collection of the lessons, experiences, opinions, thoughts, and perspectives I have acquired throughout my 13-year career in the education field. It also features interviews from educators with 110+ years of combined classroom experience.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Facilitated professional development workshops at the local union building.• Recruited charter school teachers to apply for membership with the American Federation of Teachers.• Collaborated with local trainers to plan professional development workshops.• Advertised upcoming professional development workshops to local charter schools.• Established professional learning communities at local charter schools.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Design and implement engaging lessons that develop critical thinking skills of students.• Assess student progress regularly using benchmark data and formative assessments.• Diagnose individual learning abilities of students pertaining to mathematical concepts.• Integrated a variety of technology into daily instruction of students.• Attend faculty and professional learning community meetings.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Developed lesson plans, homework assignments, and assessments that aligned with state standards.• Collaborated with faculty members to discuss student achievement data.• Communicated regularly with parents about academic and behavioral progress of students.• Incorporated a “Parking Lot” system that promoted character development in students.• Produced a school-wide classroom incentive program that strictly enforced the “Silent Hallways” policy.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Assisted with supervision of children at all times.• Fulfilled all aspects of Expeditionary Learning School (ELS) expectations.• Participated in all professional development activities.• Attended grade level meetings, CSAP meetings, and staff meetings.• Provided tutoring to students experiencing difficulties in academic areas.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Integrated technology and art to engage students in cooperative group environmental science activities.• Instructed an elective class about hip-hop culture.• Supplied daily, ongoing documentation of behavioral progress of campers.• Provided behavioral and emotional support to campers in the program.• Produced weekly lesson plans.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Assisted 5th grade teachers in academic instruction and classroom management.• Administered mini-lessons with 5th grade students experiencing difficulties in various academic areas.• Served as a substitute teacher for all grade levels in the school.• Observed students during lunch and socialized recess.• Increased the cultural awareness of students by setting up school-wide recreational and community service projects.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Treasurer, Organization of African Students (OAS) Tutor/Mentor for Temple GetSmart Program

Master Of Education (Med), Elementary Education And Teaching