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HOLLY CECIL TABOR
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www.mylearningtree.wikispaces.com
Anticipated certification date:CERTIFICATION
English Language Arts – Secondary/Middle
Anticipated May 2012 OBJECTIVE: To obtain a position teachingteach secondary or middle language arts/EnglishEnglish Language Arts and/or journalism.related topics.
EDUCATION
date May 12, 2012
Achievements: 4.0 GPA (to date), College of Education and Human Development academic scholarship
BA English/Allied Language Arts and Public Relations, Western Kentucky University, 2000, Cum Laude
Achievements: Full academic scholarship, President’s List, Dean’s List and All-American Scholar
Study Abroad: Cambridge, England, fall 1998
RELATEDCLASSROOM EXPERIENCE
MAT Fieldwork
Student Teaching – Elizabethtown Independent Schools (Jan. through Dec. 2011)
Taught, assisted, observedApril 2012)
TK Stone Middle School: READING – Sixth, seventh and conducted research in middleeighth grades, all ability levels
Elizabethtown High School: ENGLISH – 11th grade, honors
Strategies for differentiated instruction: collaborative learning, higher-order/tiered questioning, writing to learn, facilitated discussion, technology application, frequent formative assessment, computer-based reading programs (Lexia and high schools in Jefferson, NelsonReadingPlus), “I can” statements, and
Bullitt counties in Kentucky.
Risingothers.
ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE
SPONSOR: Rising Voices Teen Board sponsor,Board, The News-Enterprise, writers in creatingdeveloping monthly teen community newspaper.
Americorps VISTA,
AMERICORPS VISTA: Service Learning,
Developed support and promotional materials for university service learning program.
RELATED VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Class Facilitator,FACILITATOR: Georgia Business Century Leaders fall and summerfall/summer retreats (high school) (2000-2001)
Conversational English Partner, Kennesaw State University ESL Program (2000-2001)
Tutor, WKU Upward Bound (1995-1996)
Facilitated classes during leadership training camp for high school students
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1010-plus years as professional writing/editing experience in print journalism
ü Thejournalist/editor
The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY
Features Writer (Dec. 2004 – Aug. 2007)
Features Editor (Aug. 2007 – Jan. 2011)
Part-time Writer/Columnist (Jan. 2011 – present)
ü The
The Kentucky Standard, Bardstown, KY
Layout Editor (Nov. 2001 – April 2003)
Reporter/Columnist/Photographer (April 2003 – Dec. 2004)
Elizabethtown Christian Academy Child Care, Elizabethtown, KY
Infant room teacher (Aug. 2009-Present)
PUBLISHED WORK (Film scripts)
St. Joseph College: A Triumph of Faith, docudrama, Standard Communications and Tunnell Mill Pictures, LLC, 2005
St. Joe Prep: An Enduring Legacy, documentary, Tunnell Mill Pictures, LLC, 2008
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Franklin Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Kennesaw State University (2001)

The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

HOLLY CECIL TABOR
333 Meadow Lane, Elizabethtown, KY 42701 w (270) 769-1067 w (270) 723-3922 (c) w hctabor@gmail.com
www.mylearningtree.wikispaces.com
Anticipated certification date: May 2012
CAREER OBJECTIVE: To obtain a position teaching secondary or middle language arts/English and/or journalism.
EDUCATION
MAT Secondary/Middle English, University of Louisville, anticipated graduation date May 2012
Achievements: 4.0 GPA (to date), College of Education and Human Development academic scholarship
BA English/Allied Language Arts and Public Relations, Western Kentucky University, 2000, Cum Laude
Achievements: Full academic scholarship, President’s List, Dean’s List and All-American Scholar
Study Abroad: Cambridge, England, fall 1998
MAT Secondary/Middle English, University of Louisville, anticipated graduation date May 2012
Achievements: 4.0 GPA (to date), College of Education and Human Development academic scholarship
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Americorps VISTA, Service Learning, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (Aug. 2000-Aug. 2001)
Developed support and promotional materials for university service learning program.
Rising Voices Teen Board sponsor, The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY (April 2007 – Jan. 2011)
Coached high school-aged writers in creating monthly teen page in community newspaper.
MAT Fieldwork (Jan. through Dec. 2011)
Taught, assisted, observed and conducted research in middle and high schools in Jefferson, Nelson and
Bullitt counties in Kentucky.
Rising Voices Teen Board sponsor, The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY (April 2007 – Jan. 2011)
Coached high school-aged writers in creating monthly teen page in community newspaper.
Americorps VISTA, Service Learning, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA (Aug. 2000-Aug. 2001)
Developed support and promotional materials for university service learning program.
RELATED VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Tutor, WKU Upward Bound (1995-1996)
Class Facilitator, Georgia Business Forum/21st Century Leaders fall and summer retreats (high school) (2000-2001)
Conversational English Partner, Kennesaw State University ESL Program (2000-2001)
Tutor, WKU Upward Bound (1995-1996)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
10 years professional writing/editing experience in print journalism
ü The Kentucky Standard, Bardstown, KY
Layout Editor (Nov. 2001 – April 2003)
Reporter/Columnist/Photographer (April 2003 – Dec. 2004)
ü The News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, KY
Features Writer (Dec. 2004 – Aug. 2007)
Features Editor (Aug. 2007 – Jan. 2011)
Part-time Writer/Columnist (Jan. 2011 – present)
ü The Kentucky Standard, Bardstown, KY
Layout Editor (Nov. 2001 – April 2003)
Reporter/Columnist/Photographer (April 2003 – Dec. 2004)
Elizabethtown Christian Academy Child Care, Elizabethtown, KY
Infant room teacher (Aug. 2009-Present)
St. Joe Prep: An Enduring Legacy, documentary, Tunnell Mill Pictures, LLC, 2008
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Grant Writing/Administration, Western Kentucky University (2000)
Franklin Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Kennesaw State University (2001)
Grant Writing/Administration, Western Kentucky University (2000)
REFERENCES: Available upon request

I am generally an overachiever, except when it comes to cleaning my house. At that, I’m an achiever at best, sometimes.
I believe in the best in people. Sometimes I need to be reminded of this.
potential and purpose.purpose, and hopes to achieve mine -- maybe today!

This pageHi.
My name is under construction.Holly Tabor, formerly Holly Cecil, originally from New Hope, which is in Nelson County, Kentucky. Currently I live in Elizabethtown with my husband, Scott, and two children, Mea and Jude. Oh, and we have two cats. Morrie and Kaizer; the latter, I’m certain, is plotting to kill me, but that’s a story for another time.
A little more about me:
I am 34, a proud mom and loving wife.
(I believe in full disclosure.)
I love to read. More specifically, I love books. I love the feel of them, the smell of them. I love to bend them around as I read, a feat only really achievable with paperbacks, which is why I love them best of all. I do not have a Nook or a Kindle or any other electronic reading device. While the struggling environmentalist in me realizes this would be a greener alternative, I can’t seem to break from the grips of my collection of books, most of which are in boxes because I don’t have enough shelves to hold them.
I do have a smart phone, and intended to get an app that allowed me to read books on it, but I haven’t done it yet.
I love coffee, but I love sweet tea more.
I love my family more than anything else, even sweet tea.
I am an artist – an out-of-practice one, who dreams of one day having the time to pick up a paintbrush again.
I am a former athlete (softball and volleyball).
I am a lifelong learner, which is to say I am perpetually convinced I really don’t know anything, but believe that that’s really the truest thing any of us can know, so, maybe it’s OK to feel this way.
I am a writer; I have written news articles, features, columns, film scripts, research papers and more emails than I care to admit – but usually only if I have to. It’s not that I don’t love it (writing, that is, not email). It’s just hard to find the time. Occasionally I write in my journal. Occasionally, as in, once every three months or so.
I used to be a photographer, but now I just take pictures.
I am generally an overachiever, except when it comes to cleaning my house. At that, I’m an achiever at best, sometimes.
I believe in the best in people. Sometimes I need to be reminded of this.
Most of all, I am just another imperfect person in this world full of imperfect people, who believes each of us has potential and purpose.

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WelcomeHi. My name is Holly Tabor. Welcome to my
On this site you'll find evidence of my professional and academic work, all of which has helped prepare me, in some way, to become a teacher. You'll also find samples of published writing from my days as a journalist and a few attempts at being tech-savvy, which, I admit, I really enjoyed doing.
You'll also learn a little about me as a person -- that I am a loving wife and mother, an out-of-practice artist, and a coffee drinker, for example.

This page is under construction.To view samples of my MAT work, please visit www.livetext.com. Click on the Visitor Pass button at the top, and enter the following code: 0FBFFF84.

Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Fishing, by Melissa Bank