Trace Taylor
Trace@TheTraceTaylor.com
• Entrepreneurial Coop Founder; Creative and Academic Editor; Operations Whisperer; Talent Recruiter, Educator/Instructor, and Mentor; Copy Editor; Developmental Editor; Filmmaker and editor; Project Manager; Writer, and producing Coop Member of a new fair-share for-profit start-up launched July 2023, Creative Educators’ Coop, producing with many collaborators from various parts of the world affordable, learner-accessible, broadly representative, globally relevant, “unwashed” books (fiction and nonfiction), lesson plans, curricula, live and pre-recorded classes and instructionals, interactive learning-teaching tools, etc.
• Founder, Chair, and Chief Curriculum Officer of a small educational nonprofit (Community Leveraged Learning; 2012-2022), closed due to COVID 19 Lockdown
• Repeated multi-grant recipient ($45K)
• Multimedia Artist (writer and editor, photographer and editor, filmmaker and editor, illustrator, etc.): arts-based research, ethnography, digital filmmaking and editing (2D & 360), podcasting, with a focus on applications towards individual and community sustainability and the role of social media in an ever-growing remote world
• Widely published, nationally and Internationally noted, and peer-reviewed author and designer of broadly representative impactful emergent reader literature, core text, lesson plans, curricula accessible by learners at targeted levels, etc.
• DEIB, Curriculum, and Program Design Certified Consultant
• Mentor and Educator for learners ranging emergent and emergent ELL, grades PreK-12, undergrad and graduate, Adult ELL, adjudicated residential youth and adults, graduate, doctoral, and lifelong learners; UDL-fashioned, project-based, STEAM, lesson plan, and program design with strong background in technology inclusion and applications; education policy and Title IX, early literacy, EL early literacy, global literacy, curriculum and lesson plan creation (classroom & Virtual), WBL, and UDL; in writing, editing, literature analysis, videojournalism and mass communications, 2D and 360 videography and film production, and various social, earth, and life sciences with a focus on sustainability and climate change response through education
• 3rd-year Interdisciplinary Doctoral student, University of South Florida (USF), 2019-2025, Interdisciplinary Studies: Curriculum and Instruction, DEIB and Title IX, ethnography, individual, community, and global resilience and sustainability
• Presenter and Public Speaker: 2018 TedX; 2020, 2021, 2022 AERA, SOQM, ECQI, and ICQI (soloist and a panel member); teacher trainings and modelings, multi-age (6-adult), full-day to three-month workshop and camp Instructionals and presentations, 20 to 500 people
Professional Positions
NADA
Dr. Ken Carter, MDMPH
727-398-6661
2023-TBD
Contracted to be producer, interviewer, and video and audio engineer and editor for one instructional film, 12 ethnographic interview films, and one full length ethnographic film for NADA, Dr. Khensu Carter, and UCLA.
Creative Educators’ Coop (CEC)
100% Remote, working Nationally and Internationally
Trace Taylor, Founder
813-486-5437
2022-Present
A virtul cooperative that works with educators, writers, illustrators and other media artists, researchers, food foresters, etc, to produce culturally relevant, broadly representative, leaner accessible, fiction and nonfiction literature and curricula, lesson plans, college prep programs, live courses, tutroings sessions, and other learning and teaching materials and tools.
Contracted Remote Virtual Curriculum, Program and Lesson Plan Consultant, Designer, and Author
Class Over
Yuhan Nie
450 7th Ave.
New York, NY, 10123ynie@classover.com
2022-2023
Overhaul existing and design and author new emergent, elementary, and middle school lesson plans and learner-accessible, application-based curricula: Emergent Learners, Emergent EL Learners; Literature Analysis; Poetry Analysis; AP Creative and Academic Writing, etc. for ClassOver’s virtual teaching platform.
Independent Remote Instructor and Lesson Plan and Curricula Designer and Author
Self Employed
11951 SW Shiloh Rd. #17
Cedar Key, FL 32625
813-486-5437
2012-Present
Work one-on-one remotely with students ranging pre-k through doctoral level learners across the planet and adjudicated, residential, and incarcerated youth and adults, educators and business professionals, and life-long learners; tailoring lessons, curricula, and instruction to meet each learner’s specific individual needs and goals. May include but not limited to emergent to advanced Creative and Academic Writing; Literacy; Global Literacy; English & ELL; SSAT prep; Reading, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Retention; Literature and Poetry Analysis; Social Sciences including History; Earth and Life Sciences, 2D and 360 filmmaking and editing, etc.
Contracted Remote Instructor
Class Over
Yuhan Nie
450 7th Ave.
New York, NY, 10123
ynie@classover.com
2021-Present
Teach and Instruct elementary through advanced Creative and Academic Writing; Literacy; Global Literacy; English & ELL; SSAT prep; Reading, vocabulary, Comprehension, and Retention; Literature and Poetry Analysis; Social Sciences; History; all done through Class Over’s platform with kindergarten through middle school students across the planet.
Contracted Research Team Member
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL, 33620
888-355-3506
2022-2023
Serving on a research team led by Dr. Oscar Aliaga for the State of Florida under a Florida State Grant with the goal of improving Florida’s secondary and postsecondary WBL (work-based learning) data reporting at the state level.
Independent Remote Proofreader and Editor (developmental and general)
Self Employed
11951 SW Shiloh Rd. #17
Cedar Key, FL 32625
813-486-5437
2012-Present
Academic and creative manuscripts and book chapters, plays and screenplays, copy, journal articles, and white papers, theses, essays, and dissertations; MLA and APA standards; to academic and press deadline; an extensive background in the publishing industry and academic experience
Independent Author
American Reading Company (my publisher)
480 Norristown Rd.
Blue Bell, PA 19422
610-992-4150
2004-Present
Design, author, and develop new book series templates with more than 200+ personally authored titles and 50+ series template creations to meet market needs and interests for use in homes, libraries, and classrooms on an international scale.
Researcher and Journal Article Editor and Proofer
University of South Florida Grant Projects
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-2011
Jan. 2022 – May 2022
This was a limited grant covered postion that ended in June 2021. Served as editor for Dr. Oscar Aliaga on several journal article projects.
Researcher and Journal Article Editor and Proofer
University of South Florida Grant Projects
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-2011
Jan. 2021 – June 2021
This was a limited grant covered postion that ended in June 2021. Worked with Dr. Charles Vanover on several arts-based qualitative research projects: film and audio editing; film and podcast production; ethnographic and autoethnographic research and production, Article editing, some IT work; data management; research; application investigation and experimentation; conceptualization; collaboration, and problem solving.
Curriculum and Lesson Plan Consultant, Designer, Author, and In-class Instructor
SailFuture.org
282 15th St. North
St. Petersburg FL 33705
941-219-9847
June 2020-December 2020
This was an arduos time-limited position working with adjuticated residential foster males ages 12 to 18 during which I wrote 15 specialized, highly detailed, student accessible differential interdisciplinary port packets (long passage curricula) specific to the port states the residential students would be sailing into, covering location-specific earth and life sciences, social sciences, technology, art, Climate Change and Global warming imapcts and responses, etc. Additionally, I wrote daily STEAM curricula and lesson plans; developed new instructional methods for the classrooms through daily direct instruction with the residential students, and researched and applied student resistance behavior engagement and channeling to improve meaning and connection making, motivation, investment, global literacy, and fundamental literacy skill, which we did in quite remarkable ways! This was a profound learning experience.
Curriculum Writer and Instructor
University of South Florida-Polk County Corrections Literacy Grant Project
Dr. Susan Bennett
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
727-873-4622
May 2019-July 2019
Wrote the writing curriculum for the literacy project, obtained USF and Prison Board approval of it and of my previously published Writers Guide, 2nd Edition: What Makes Writing Great? (2017) for use as the core instructional text, and taught fundamentals of effective writing at the detention facility for 50 male students ages 18-70. At the beginning, the majority of students were unable to write complete sentences. By the end, all composed one and two page stories that demonstrated technical and creative skill acquisition.
Founding CEO and Chief Curriculum Officer
Community Leveraged Learning, Inc. (Tax ID 46-5669322)
4222 22nd Ave. S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33747
813-486-5437
2011-2021
To aid equity and access with experiential qualitative field research in service of the community, I Combine best practices of UDL and differential instruction in order to reach the broadest spectrum of learners; research, apply, write, and publish peer-reviewed curricula and course materials; write award-winning proposals and grants; write and edit copy; design, illustrate, and produce marketing collateral; recruit, contract, and mentor writers, developmental editors, illustrators, interdisciplinary instructors, field staff, and community volunteers; research and incorporate technology in the field and in the classroom; develop relationships with municipalities, universities, school district staff developers, principals, teachers, caregivers, fellow nonprofits, and local businesses to construct positive spherical learning experiences; produce, edit, and publish journalistic short films and documentaries; construct and conduct multi-gender, multi-age, multiethnic field and classroom workshops for all learners; mentor youth and adults in interdisciplinary focuses for short and extended lengths of time.
Writing and Critical Thinking Instructor Tutor
St.Petersburg College
Downtown & Mid Town Campuses
727-344-4772
2016-2018
Worked with students from underserved populations through their research, reading, and writing assignments to develop their creative, critical, and technical research, thinking, anaylis, and writing skills, as well as their hermeneutic understandings.
Founding Director of ARC Press
American Reading Company
480 Norristown Rd.
Blue Bell, PA 19422
610-992-4150
2004-2011
The mission was to create a complimentary press for the already established education company for the purpose of cost reduction via in-house production of a high quality, perfectly suited product which did not at the time exist: standards aligned, emergent reading literature at the various emergent reading levels. We developed a budget; created templates at every level; determined priority themes and markets; located, recruited, and taught young writers and illustrators with which to build our new publishing team; found environmentally friendly vendors, and negotiated mutually beneficial relationships. Today, ARC Press thrives as an internationally acclaimed peer-reviewed multi-million dollar press.
Education
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
813-974-2011
Doctoral Student of Interdisciplinary Studies
June 2019-2025
Concentrations in individual, community, and planetary sustainability and resilience, lingusitics and rhetoric, racism, equity, access, and social justice, and arts-based qualitative research.
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
140 7th Ave S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
727-873-7748
Interdisciplinary Studies, MLA
Education, Operationalizing Literacy, Mass Communications and journalism, Applications of technology such as 360 and 2D film production in Education field study settings, etc.
August 2016 – May, 2019
Eckerd College
4200 54th Ave. S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
800-456-9009
January 2013 – May 2016 (4yrs. in 3yrs.)
BA Creative Writing and Anthropology
Awards, Honors, and Conference Presentations
2024 March, Golden Key International Honor Society Lifetime Induction
2022 AERA, ICQI
2021 AERA, ICQI, ECQI, and SOQM 2021
2019 AERA 2020 and ICQI
2019 April, Catalina Foundation Award of Multiple Grants ($15,000)
2018 April, Catalina Foundation Award of Multiple Grants ($15,000)
2018 April, Tedx Presenter
2017 May, USFSP Curriculum Project Sponsorship
2017 May, 360 Film Production Recognition, USF
2017 February, Lifetime Induction into Phi Kappa Phi
2017 June, Lifetime Induction into Omicron Delta Kappa
2017 October, Induction into Kappa Delta Pi
2016 May, Eckerd Excellence in Writing Nomination
2016 May, High Honors Award, Eckerd College
2013-2016, Dean’s List
Core Competencies
Publishing • Leadership • Mentorship • Recruitment • Motivation • Virtual and F2F Instruction • Engagement • DEIB Analysis and Consultation • Research • Teams • Zoom • Canvas • WordPress • 2D & 360 Filmmaking & Editing • Writing, Editing, Proofing • Public Speaking & Presentation • Education & Learning • Learning Program Design • Global Literacy • Relationships • Critical Analysis • Adobe CC & Microsoft • Mass Communications & Social Media • Flow & Process Analysis • Contract Negotiation • Collaboration • Sales & Marketing • Technology Applications
Chronological Project and Achievement Highlights
July 2024, Taught an average of 12 classes per week from June 2023 to June 2024 elementary through high school.
2024 June, completed and launched the Middle School interactive writing curriculum Part 1, Great Writing made Easy Words and Word Choice; completed and launched the 12th and 13th of 30 interactive college prep Academic Writing curriculum, and completed and launched two of 30 lessons in the college prep Creative Writing curriculum, and completed one finished interview cut.
2024 April, completed and launched one of the 14 NADA contract films, completed 12 ethnographic interview raw films for NADA, Dr. Khensu Carter, and UCLA, the first of which is NADA Protocol Now and Then.
March 2024, completed and launched the 11th of 30 lessons in my college prep Academic Writing Course
2023 December, 50 new gorgeous emergent reader nonfiction titles launched at various levels, in the works since November 2022.
2023 December, contracted to produce instructional films for NADA, Dr. Khensu Carter, and UCLA.
2023 October, completed ‘a visually stunning listen-while-you-read, nonfiction, ethnographic emergent reader book, I Am Kenneth Omondi Ochieng, in partnership with Dr. Kenneth Omondi Ochieng, socio-environmental research and practice activist extraordinaire in Kenya.
2023 August, completed and launched the 3rd edition of The Writer’s Guide. Completed two six-month college prep curricula (creative and academic), 16 new emergent literature titles, launched our first 12 live virtual classes, recruited 38 Coop members from around the world, and produced and launched two emergent reader titles
2023 July, founded and launched Creative Educators’ Coop, a global education business based on a new sustainable fair-share buisness model deisgned as part of my Interdisciplinary Studies PhD dissertation project that targets 5 top threats to climate change mitigation by incorporating educators and other talents across the planet at fair-share residual earnings and other built in sustainability measures
2023 June, entered 3rd and final Interdisciplinary Studies PhD course-work year
2022 June – 2023 January, contracted to work with Dr. Oscar Aliaga for the State of Florida under a Florida state grant with the goal of improving Florida’s secondary and postsecondary WBL (work-based learning) data reporting at the state level.
2022 May, contracted by internation, China-based company to write and design an advanced writing curriculum with lesson plans for their global virtual school
2022 April, contracted by internation, China-based company to write and design an advanced classical poetry analysis curriculum with lesson plans for their global virtual school
2022 February, contracted by internation, China-based company to write and design an early literacy curriculum with lesson plans for their global virtual school
2022 February, invited to present and so presented at ICQI on the production and analysis of autoethnographic film for research.
2021 June, new transitional chapter book series, Coyote and Badger, Book 1: Coyote and Badger Meet Brown Bear, contracted by my publisher, American Reading Company, for release late 2024.
2021 January, selected by AERA, ICQI, ECQI, and SOQM to present on qualitative research film project and the qualitative research role of the editor.
2020 September, began construction of the Babylon Study: a research project into trending language and meaning shifts across a broad spectrum of Communities of meaning.
2020 May-December, contracted by by local adjudicated youth residential school to create and install an innovative limited budget education program.
• Teams • Zoom • Canvas • WordPress • 2D & 360 Filmmaking & Editing • Writing, Editing, Proofing • Public Speaking & Presentation • Education & Learning • Learning Program Design • Global Literacy • Relationships • Critical Analysis • Adobe CC & Microsoft • Mass Communications & Social Media • Flow & Process Analysis • Negotiation & Collaboration • Sales & Marketing • Technology Applications
May 2020, completed the documentary, Us: A photographic montage on climate change and climate change response.
2020 February, scheduled to present on arts based research with Dr. Charles Vanover, Veronica Matthews, and Dwayne Scheuneman at SOQM 2020 (Student Organization for Qualitative Methodologies) Interdiscipplinary symposium (Cancelled in response to COVID).
2019 Novenber, selected to co-present at the 2020 AERA (American Education Research Association) conference with Dr. Charles Vanover during which our film of Vanover’s ethnodrama play will be shown and discussed and to present a paper based on my role in the project and my chapter contribution in Vanover’s project book currently under construction
2019 November, selected to co-present with Dr, Charles Vanover at the 2020 ECQI (European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry) during which our film was shown and discussed
2019, August-October, served as editor and production artist on the film production of Dr. Charles Vanover’s ethnodrama play, Chicago Butoh, performed at The Studio@620 and directed by Bob Devin Jones
2019 July, produced and launched the 2019 CLL-Catalina Foundation ‘Great Summer Adventure’ project: immersive Ft. De Soto ecosystems study with Pinellas County fourth-graders, Pinellas County teachers, Bright Futures high school students, USF environmental and marine biology focused undergrad students, Catlina Foundation, and various other community partners
2019 June & July, served as writing instructor for approx. 50 male students ages 18-65 at Polk County Corrections Facility (Florida) for Dr. Susan Bennett’s two-month Polk Corrections Literacy Project
2019 June, entered Doctoral Program with concentrations in environmental and social sciences with a focus on climate change, global warming, sustainability, DEIB, curriculum and instruction, technology and its class and field educational applications, art-based, project-based, qualitative research and ethno and autoethnography
2019 June, 6th Annual accredited CLL-Pinellas County Schools Teachers’ Immersive PD Workshop (Ft. Desoto Ecosystems study)
2019 May, graduated Interdisciplinary MLA with focuses in literacy and education, education policy, racism, and mass communications: 2D and 360 video journalism, and technology class and field applications
2019 May, my 2017, 2nd edition writers guide, What Makes Writing Great? and accompanying writing curriculum approved by the Florida Prison Authority and by USF as a component in Dr. Susan Bennett’s Polk County Corrections Literacy Project
2019 April, accepted into the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program at University of South Florida Tampa
2019 April, won second $15,000 Catalina Foundation grant award in education, literacy, environmental sciences, community outreach, and technology applications
2019 March, recruited for USF Dr. Susan Bennett’s Polk County Correction’s Literacy Project as the writing curriculum, and writing instruction pro and wrote the writing curriculum for the project
2018 July, produced and published the CLL-Catalina project documentary The Experience, 2018
2018 July, CLL-Catlina ‘Great Summer Adventure’ immersive learning project, 60 1st-6th-graders from Boys and Girls Suncoast Club, Catalina, 10 Bright Futures high school students, 6 USF environmental and marine
biology focused undergrad students, and 20 various other community volunteers and staff
• 2018 June, produced and instructed the 5th annual accredited Pinellas County Teachers’ Immersive PD (Testudines)
• 2018 May – June, produced the documentary Homeless in St. Pete and Tampa Documentary production and publication
• 2018 April, wrote and designed the Testudine Curriculum
• 2018 April, Live TedX Presentation
• 2018 April, won first $15,000 Catalina Foundation grant award in education, literacy, environmental sciences, community outreach, and technology applications
• 2018 April, Gopher Tortoise Burrow Count Documentary production and publication
• 2018 March, wrote and designed the two-day workshop field and classroom curriculum for the CLL-Catalina Foundation 2018 Great Summer Adventure Immersive Mangrove and Intertidal Zone study project
• 2017 May-July, designed, produced, and instructed the accredited Boca Ciega High School Human Rights Project (two-month effective writing instruction in a framework of critical thematic examination and writing for 103 struggling 9th-graders, subsequent participant anthology production and publication, and the book signing event of 300+ people at USFSP
• 2017 June, produced and instructed the 4th Annual accredited Pinellas County Teacher Immersion PD (ornithology)and produced and launched the workshop Anthology, Birds
• 2017 April, wrote and designed the Ornithology Curriculum
• 2017 March, wrote and launched A Writer’s Guide, What makes writing great? 2nd Edition
• 2016 June, produced and instructed the 5th and final annual two-month youth writing workshop series and competition (49 youth) and subsequently produced and launched the competition winner’ books
• 2016 June, produced and instructed the 3rd annual accredited Pinellas County Teachers’ Immersive PD (Plankton) and produced and launched the workshop anthology, Plankton
• 2016 June, started in the Interdisciplinary MLA program at USFSP
• 2016 May, graduated from Eckerd College (four years in three) with high honors and The Eckerd Excellence in Writing nomination
• 2016 May, wrote and designed the Plankton Curriculum
• 2015 June, produced and instructed the 4th annual two-month youth writing workshop series and competition (40 youth) and subsequently produced and launched the competition winner’ books
• 2015 June, produced and instructed the 2nd annual Pinellas County Teachers’ Immersive PD (Applying Technology in the classroom)
• 2015 May, Wrote and designed the accredited Applying Technology in the Classroom Presentation
• 2014 June, produced and instructed the 3rd annual two-month youth writing workshop series and competi
tion (39 youth) and subsequently produced and launched the competition winner’ books
• 2014 June, produced and instructed the 1st annual accredited Pinellas County Teachers’ Immersive PD (Mangrove) and subsequently produced and launched the workshop anthology
• 2014 May, Wrote and designed the Mangrove curriculum
• 2013 June, produced and instructed the 2nd annual two-month youth writing workshop series and competition (35 youth) and subsequently produced and launched the competition winner’ books
• 2012 October accepted as a Freshman at Eckerd College for Spring 2013 semester start date
• 2012 June, produced and instructed the 1st annual two-month youth writing workshop series and competition (35 youth) and produced and launched the competition winner’s books.
• 2012 May, Wrote the youth Writers’ Workshop and competition curriculum
• 2012 January, founded Commmunity leveraged Learning nonprofit
• 2012 January, founded Community Leveraged Learning, and educational nonprofit to work with underserved youth and Pinellas County School Teachers
• 2003 February – 2011 March, built a multimillion-dollar publishing arm from the ground up for American Reading Company and served as it’s Founding Director until March 2011 at which time I decided to go to school full-time and get a college education since I had at best 9th-grade formal education, though I had traveled the world and learned much on the social aspects of the human and pplanetary conditions.
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