Open To Work
Verified
This profile is verified using an email address.
Retresha Kilgoe
Summary
Experienced art specialist focused on K-5 education, delivering high-quality visual resources that support diverse learning styles. Demonstrated ability to create age-appropriate artwork that captivates young audiences and fosters creativity. Strong background in project management, ensuring timely delivery of materials that meet educational standards.
Overview
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Elementary art camp coordinator
Creative Children Arts
Boston
06.2026 - 08.2026
- Planned and organized engaging art programs for children of various ages.
- Coordinated logistics for camp activities, including scheduling and resource allocation.
- Engaged children in interactive activities and organized arts and crafts, sports games and field trips.
- Planned curriculum and daily schedules in collaboration with professionals.
- Managed art supplies inventory, ensuring timely replenishment and organization.
- Instructed students on proper use of various tools and techniques related to visual arts.
Foster Parent
Department of Children and families
Waltham
10.2025 - 05.2026
- Prepared child welfare cases and provided expert testimony in court, while assisting with early interventions to ensure child safety.
- Delivered in-home therapeutic foster care services to four children, implementing strategies that improved emotional regulation and reduced behavioral incidents.
- Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to implement children's permanency plans, developing positive relationships with community service providers.
- Implemented behavior management strategies and developed individual Education Plans in collaboration with Family Case Workers.
Before/ After school Site Director
Mattahunt Elementary
11.2024 - 07.2025
- Supervised and developed a team of 7 teaching staff, ensuring compliance with company guidelines and enhancing instructional quality.
- Oversaw enrollment, admissions, student applications processing, teachers' payroll, students' tuition.
- Implemented an inclusive curriculum and personalized support for over 50 students with diverse learning needs, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
- Consulted development-based teaching styles, promoting creative freedom through hands-on activities for 20+ children.
Child Care Provider
Department of Early Education and Care
12.2018 - 11.2024
- Collaborated with parents to develop targeted strategies improving social and behavioral skills for 10 children across various developmental stages.
- Collaborated with a team of providers to create innovative learning activities for children aged 1-7, enhancing developmental outcomes.
- Oversaw children's enrollment process and admission, managed FCC food program and subsidies, and ensured compliance with EEC licensing standards.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Bridgewater State University
Atlanta, GA01-2026
Associate of Arts -
Bauder College
Atlanta, GA01-2009
Skills
- Child engagement strategies
- Behavioral management techniques
- Crisis intervention
- Family support services
- Resource coordination
- Arts instruction
- Lesson planning
- Arts integration
- Collaborative projects
- Visual Art Skills
- Artistic techniques
- Painting techniques
- Color theory
- Art history
Certification
- Director 2
- CPR/First Aid
Timeline
Elementary art camp coordinator
Creative Children Arts
06.2026 - 08.2026
Foster Parent
Department of Children and families
10.2025 - 05.2026
Before/ After school Site Director
Mattahunt Elementary
11.2024 - 07.2025
Child Care Provider
Department of Early Education and Care
12.2018 - 11.2024
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
Bridgewater State University
Associate of Arts -
Bauder College