About me
With over twenty-five years of experience as an Early Childhood Administrator, Artiya has a wealth of experience in designing and managing Head Start/Early Head Start and State Pre- K Programs. She has served as a District Director of Child Lab Centers for City Colleges of Chicago, Curriculum and Assessment Director, and Director of Education for a host of Non-For-Profit Organizations across the City of Chicago. Currently, Artiya serves as the District Director of Programs for the Lake Ridge New Tech School District, located in Gary Indiana.
Artiya has supported hundreds of Early Learning Programs at the local and federal levels, with 10 years at the Federal Level as a Head Start Program Federal Reviewer, working with countless Head Start Grantees across the country.
Artiya has provided support to Chicago Public School Teachers and Teacher Leaders on the use of NWEA MAP assessment data to inform instruction, set school improvement goals, and targeted professional development through a variety of methods, including grade-level meetings, all staff meetings, and/or webinar presentations. Her area of expertise includes guiding teachers on analyzing assessment data to guide instruction and at the administrative level, how to use assessment data to support program quality improvement and overall student growth.
Artiya has also supported the Illinois Governor's Office of Early Childhood Development, as the Project Director of the Preschool Development Grant, for the state. , This grant was designed to fund states to conduct a comprehensive statewide birth through five needs assessment followed by in-depth strategic planning, while enhancing parent choice and expanding the current mixed delivery system consisting of a wide range of provider types and settings, including child care centers and home-based child care providers, Head Start and Early Head Start, state prekindergarten, and home visiting service providers across the public, private and faith-based sectors
