Fatma's CV
Fatma Khalid
VICE PRINCIPAL ACADEMICS | K-12 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT | TEACHING AND LEARNING
Profile summary
Strategic Vice Principal Academics with 12 years shaping K 12 school improvement and teaching and learning outcomes across the UAE. Known for curriculum design, quality assurance, and driving instructional excellence within American curriculum schools. Committed to advancing educational standards through data driven intervention and rigorous teacher development.
Career highlights
Academic Leadership and Quality Assurance: Directed teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, and academic quality assurance across KG to Grade 12 within a NEASC accredited American curriculum school.
Inspection and Performance Outcomes: Increased lessons judged Good or better from 88% to 92%, with 38% evaluated as Very Good, and evaluated 97.7% of teachers as Good or Very Good.
Enrolment and Programme Development: Increased student enrolment capacity by 75% through strategic programme development and stronger community engagement while serving as Founding Nursery Director.
Advanced Placement Academic Support: Supported the school first AP Biology and AP Physics cohort to achieve scores of 3 and 4 within the academic improvement framework.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reported to executive leadership while directing curriculum, assessment, and academic quality assurance across KG to Grade 12. Steered academic operations, compliance, and institutional improvement frameworks within a NEASC-accredited American curriculum school.
- Increased lessons judged Good or better from 88% to 92%, with 38% evaluated as Very Good.
- Evaluated 97.7% of teachers as Good or Very Good through established quality assurance cycles.
- Aligned curriculum across CCSS, NGSS, WIDA, and UAE Ministry of Education requirements, contributing to NEASC recognition.
- Supported the school first AP Biology and AP Physics cohort to achieve scores of 3 and 4.
- Strengthened assessment systems using MAP, CAT4, NGRT, ABT, and IsBT data to evaluate student attainment and progress.
Shaped academic and operational strategy across two school phases, steering curriculum delivery, teaching consistency, student progress, and staff accountability while influencing educational standards through professional learning communities and instructional coaching cycles.
- Analyzed internal and external assessment data to identify academic gaps, designed targeted interventions, and evaluated performance across learner cohorts.
- Enhanced parent partnerships and early intervention procedures to strengthen communication, learner support, and continuity between home and school environments.
Shaped institutional strategy and operational direction across the nursery ecosystem, steering administrative structures, pedagogical frameworks, staffing policies, and community engagement models.
- Increased student enrolment capacity by 75% through strategic programme development and stronger community engagement.
- Developed language-acquisition frameworks to support children learning English as an additional language and strengthen early identification of learning needs.
- Built and developed the founding team, establishing expectations for teaching quality, child-centred practice, safeguarding and continuous professional learning.
Guided elementary academic strategy and school improvement as Head of Elementary and Vice Principal, holding responsibility for curriculum implementation, instructional quality, and student outcomes across the phase.
- Introduced structured monitoring and professional development processes to improve consistency in classroom practice and leadership accountability.
- Collaborated with teachers, leaders, and families to strengthen intervention, student support, and engagement across the elementary phase.
- Designed whole-school self-evaluation and improvement processes connecting inspection findings, performance evidence, and departmental action planning.
- Led curriculum quality reviews across English, mathematics, science, Arabic, Islamic education, humanities, computer science, PE, art, and inclusion.
Education
Educational Leadership and Management
Applied Psychology
National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership
- Ongoing
Teaching
Cambridge International Teacher Training