Melissa Dolecek is a Faculty Coach with Instructional Empowerment. She has over 18 years of experience in elementary and secondary education in Denver, Colorado. Within her years of work in the north metro area, Melissa has improved instructional systems by providing professional development at the district, department and teacher levels through her knowledge of standards based education. Her experience leading Professional Learning Communities has direct results in closing the achievement gap. Melissa also has experience working to align a variety of curriculum to Tier 1 best instructional practices with a direct focus on data collection and analysis.
Before joining Instructional Empowerment, Melissa was in the Adams 14 District in Commerce City, Colorado as a teacher, department lead, district presenter and instructional coach. Her education includes a MA of Education from the University of Colorado, Denver in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Teacher of Reading. She also holds a certificate of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education from Regis University, Denver. Her focus with Instructional Empowerment is to provide coaching around best Tier 1 instruction in order to close the educational achievement gap.
