Dale

Dale

Dale Herbst, MPA **103 Sunningdale** **Williamsburg, Virginia 23188** **(434) 238-2005**   **herbstd@vt.edu** I am an effective instructor and manager. I have a proven record of twenty years of success and dedication in the field of providing services to at risk children and teenagers through a local government agency, who is looking for a position teaching middle or high school Social Studies. I have experience developing, teaching, and evaluating student performance in college and high school level classes, and possess excellent content knowledge in the field of Social Science, as well as years of experience in the field of American Government. I possess doctoral level writing and presentation skills and have extensive experience at conflict resolution and group problem solving. I spent years teaching and coaching employees on boundary issues when dealing with young people and on taking appropriate actions when dealing with young people. I am an effective team player who exhibits the highest of ethics, underscored by a personal commitment to excellence.

=__Relevant Work Experience__=

**Walsingham Academy** **Substitute Teacher** I work on call substituting for absent middle and upper school faculty members at an independent school in Williamsburg, VA, in a variety of subjects.

**Central Virginia Community College – Political Science Department** **Professor** Taught the course PLS 212 - U.S. Government II at the Bedford Campus of CVCC. This was a dual enrollment course that concentrated on high school seniors taking college level courses. Duties included developing the syllabus, selecting outside readings, lecture, testing, and grading.

**Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University** **Co-Instructor** I co-designed the course //Developing Citizenship Skills// UH 3004H for the Virginia Tech Undergraduate Honors Program with two fellow doctoral students. We developed the syllabus, selected the published scholarly articles and books to be used in the course, and acted as co-instructors.

**Lynchburg Virginia Department of Social Services – Lynchburg, Virginia**
 * Supervisor of Adult Services / Adult Protective Services**

I supervised all of the activities of a Service Unit of the Lynchburg Division of Social Services. These included investigating all valid reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of any person above the age of sixty, or of any person over eighteen who was incapacitated due to a physical, mental, or psychological disability. My duties involving investigations included interactions with the City Attorney’s office, the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office, the FBI, The U.S. Postal Inspector’s Office, and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. My supervisory duties include assisting in the investigation of difficult cases, participating in the disposition of all cases, and reviewing all cases prior to their closure.

My unit was responsible for screening all applicants for Nursing Home and Personal Home Care Medicaid Waivers, and for Virginia Auxiliary Grants for persons in Assisted Living Facilities. The securing of these waivers and grants added millions of dollars annually to the local economy.

Major improvements that I made in this position include: The development of computer based programs that track all unit expenditures from the different budget lines; developing new result oriented measures that reflect what the unit accomplishes; developing a computer tracking program for those measures; serving on a Commonwealth wide committee that developed a State Web based program (ASAPS) for all 120 local Departments of Social Services. The ASAPS system now is used in every agency in Virginia to manage all aspects of Adult Protective Service cases. The system allows APS workers throughout the state to access, review and re-open any case that has been opened anywhere in the State. It permits the tracking of data consistently throughout the State.

**Hillsborough County Department of Children’s Services – Tampa, Florida** **Supervisor** In the position of supervisor I worked in three of the four programs that are contained in the Department of Children’s Services. This called for a high degree of flexibility and cross training, having to become knowledgeable in the varying rules, goals and expectations of the different programs. In my last position I was responsible for ensuring that federal, state and county guidelines were followed in the daily operations of a residential program for runaway teenagers that had multiple funding sources, and served runaway youths from all parts of the U.S., Native American Tribal Lands, as well as numerous foreign countries. I was routinely involved in the scheduling of staff and activities, evaluation of staff performance, the discipline, interviewing and selection of staff members, interviewing teens and their families seeking services, and referring families to all available treatment sources. I was actively involved in problem solving and conflict resolution involving both staff members and clients, and clients and their families, employee training, as well as in community relations and public speaking. For fifteen years I was a trainer for HCDCS and other agencies in Aggression Control Techniques. I also trained supervisors and managers in payroll processing and in new Federal regulations when these new regulations had a direct effect upon our programs. I was responsible for teaching, coaching, and evaluating employees about working with dependent juveniles in all of the programs and on how to establish firm, appropriate boundaries between adults and teenagers.

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 * Award Winning Project**: I conceptualized, designed and supervised the implementation of a system that enabled the Department to transmit high quality digital images of teenagers who ran away from the center, to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department. This gave law enforcement officers nationwide access to a high resolution digital image of the missing teen on their vehicle’s computer screens within minutes of the runaway incident. The previous method took days before this information was available for patrol officers, and the picture quality was poor. Due to this project I was the recipient of the Hillsborough County Program Improvement Award 2002/2003.

=__Education__=

Darden School of Education, Career Switcher Program Will be certified to teach Social Studies grades 6 through 12 in the Commonwealth of Virginia as of April, 2013.
 * Old Dominion University**

Preparing the Future Professoriate Contemporary Pedagogy Independent Study in Pedagogical Practices
 * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University**
 * Graduate Certificate: The Future Professoriate**
 * Relevant Course Work:**

All coursework necessary for a Ph.D in Public Administration and Policy has been completed.

=Master of Public Administration=
 * University of South Florida, Tampa Florida**

=Bachelor of Science – Business Management=
 * Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida**


 * __Certifications__**

PRAXIS: Social Studies Content Knowledge, with ETS Recognition of Excellence for finishing in the top 15% nationally.

Virginia Communication and Literacy Assessment

CWS5691: Child Abuse and Neglect: Recognizing, Reporting and Responding for Educators

and Crisis Intervention Techniques, (CIT).
 * Special Skills**- Department trainer in Aggression Control Techniques, (ACT),


 * References available upon request.**


 * __Things I have gotten out of this class: __**
 * 1) Our exercises have emphasized something that I was already aware of. This is hard stuff. I have been deemed ready to teach undergraduate and master’s level courses. At no time was any effort made to concentrate this much attention to the teaching process. And I was one of the best prepared! I have a grad certificate in the future professoriate!
 * 2) If at first I don’t succeed……. As long as the students want to learn, I have to continue to morph my presentation of the material until I find proper combinations to successfully transmit the information.