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Nitza Guzmán

Nitza Guzmán

Barranquilla

Summary

Results-driven consultant with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving outcomes. Skilled in strategic planning, data analysis, and process improvement. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments. Adept at providing actionable insights and fostering stakeholder relationships to drive success. Advocate for inclusion processes at all ages, with a deep commitment to service and innovation.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

External Consultant for the Inclusion Program at

UNICORSALUD
03.2024 - Current

Responsibilities include implementing tools to support student characterization, assisting teachers with UDL strategies for inclusion in their classes, and helping students recognize and confront their own challenges.

Kindergarten Director

Colegio Hebreo Union
08.2023 - Current
  • Leader of the management team
  • Inclusion team member
  • Head of English Department

Professional coach

Workplace Options
02.2023 - Current
  • Generate inclusive and differentiated work environments

Speaker

Mentes a la Carta
10.2019 - Current
  • Fostered an inclusive environment during presentations by addressing diverse perspectives and promoting open dialogue among participants.
  • Promoted thought leadership within the field by authoring articles, blog posts, and whitepapers on key topics of interest.

Volunteering

Fundautismo de Barranquilla /Atlántico and Chocó - Colombia
05.2017 - Current
  • Volunteering in Coaching for the Good Shepherd Female Prison
  • Volunteering in accompaniment to teachers
  • Puay de Uribia Ethno-educational Center
  • Department of La Guajira, Colombia

Workshop trainer on inclusion issues

Secretary of Education of Barranquilla
08.2016 - Current
  • Trainer of support teachers in the city of Barranquilla and the departments of Atlántico, Magdalena, Guajira, Sucre and Chocó

CEO

ConsultwithusABK
07.2011 - Current
  • Workshops, conferences on inclusion, coaching, language, thinking skills and literacy
  • We have worked with Foundations, District Secretary of Education (Barranquilla), regional and international Universities in consultancies
  • Individual assistance in Coaching, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology and Special Education

Kindergarten Director

German School of Barranquilla
06.2020 - 08.2023
  • Staff in charge 43 educators
  • Development of administrative and pedagogical functions associated with the position
  • Revision of pedagogical planning in both languages (Spanish and German)
  • Close accompaniment with the team in cases of learning and participation barriers / talents
  • Improvement of the pedagogical curriculum
  • Immediate superior Rector
  • Member of the institution's senior management
  • Shared leadership within the institution's inclusion team
  • Responsible for key success factors in the Institutional Strategic Plan

Coordinator Learning Processes Support Coordinator

Colegio Alemán de Barranquilla
07.2016 - 08.2023
  • Design and implementation of a program to promote learning processes based on the premise that every teacher is a teacher of language and thinking
  • Development of innovative tools for the purpose, from detection to stimulation and monitoring strategies in the classroom
  • Cooperative work with the areas (subjects) of the school

Coordinator of Student Wellbeing and Psycho-educational Counseling

German School of Barranquilla
01.2017 - 06.2020
  • Reorganization of the processes and fronts associated with the response to cases of barriers to learning and participation / talents of the institution
  • Creator of the Department formed by Psychology, Speech Therapy and pedagogical support (Spanish, mathematics, German and motor)
  • Leader in the process standardization that guarantees the learning goals for the population with learning and participation barriers
  • Member of the Extended Management (Directors of the German School, institutional decision making)
  • Responsible for key success factors in the institutional strategic plan

Speech Therapist

Marymount School
07.2014 - 07.2016
  • Restructuring of the Speech and Language Therapy class in Preschool
  • Teamwork with Psychologists and Occupational Therapist, Admissions Support
  • Case feedback with outside therapists, tutors and parents
  • Workshops (coaching) with students

Pedagogical support to Wayuus students

University of La Guajira
01.2010 - 01.2015
  • To improve their academic performance within the CARAS program

Coteacher / Speech Therapist Learning Center

GLC Aspaen
02.2012 - 06.2014
  • In charge of stimulation processes, detection and work together with teachers to provide support guidelines
  • In charge of processes of language stimulation and executive functions from a differentiated approach in Ocean Kids
  • Spanish language teacher

Education

UDL

NOVAK
USA
07-2023

Skills

  • UDL Expertise
  • Innovation management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Problem-Solving
  • Innovative problem-solving ability,
  • Expert in recognizing and addressing learning and participation barriers
  • Highly empathetic with strong communication skills

Accomplishments


Participant in the latest Power of Potential: Sharing Experiences from Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Journeys the 7th International Conference on Education Quality (ICEQ) University of Worcester, UK, 26th – 28th June 2024with the paper UDL in Early Childhood Education: Planning with a Design Thinking Approach, Learners Interests /Voices and Cooperative Work – A Successful Approach to Inclusion I will also be presenting the same paper at the Digicon 2024 event on November 7.


Second place with the project presented by Kindergarten of the German School of Barranquilla, Colombia entitled "Only one ocean". More than 400 schools (from Germany and abroad) participated in the competition "All for a world for all", launched by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development @bmz_bund and the organization @engagementglobal.
21.06.2022 Berlin, Germany.

Speaker for ISTE within the international committee for inclusion. ISTELIVE , section Inclusion. Years 2017, 2018. 2019, 2021


Appointment as a member of OIICE, International Organization for Inclusion and Educational Quality. Cuzco, Peru June 20, 2019.

Diving, reading.

I love diving; it's a family activity that connects us with nature, and we all dive together. I also enjoy reading not just academic topics, but also adventure and fiction, paired with a good Colombian coffee—it creates a true sense of peace.

Timeline

External Consultant for the Inclusion Program at

UNICORSALUD
03.2024 - Current

Kindergarten Director

Colegio Hebreo Union
08.2023 - Current

Professional coach

Workplace Options
02.2023 - Current

Kindergarten Director

German School of Barranquilla
06.2020 - 08.2023

Speaker

Mentes a la Carta
10.2019 - Current

Volunteering

Fundautismo de Barranquilla /Atlántico and Chocó - Colombia
05.2017 - Current

Coordinator of Student Wellbeing and Psycho-educational Counseling

German School of Barranquilla
01.2017 - 06.2020

Workshop trainer on inclusion issues

Secretary of Education of Barranquilla
08.2016 - Current

Coordinator Learning Processes Support Coordinator

Colegio Alemán de Barranquilla
07.2016 - 08.2023

Speech Therapist

Marymount School
07.2014 - 07.2016

Coteacher / Speech Therapist Learning Center

GLC Aspaen
02.2012 - 06.2014

CEO

ConsultwithusABK
07.2011 - Current

Pedagogical support to Wayuus students

University of La Guajira
01.2010 - 01.2015

UDL

NOVAK
Nitza Guzmán