Cal Jordan Powers
WEAVER • WONDERER • WORDSMITH
Educator • Researcher • Leader • Advocate • Organizer
Consulting Portfolio
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Connections and Counting!
Cal’s career features many forms of consultation roles for educational and professional development purposes, such as podcast and panel moderating, survey and interview organizer, and one-on-one tutor and advisor. Cal has conducted interviews in English, French and Spanish with teacher leaders, organizational administrators, and learners to wield the wisdom of others to enact change.
Cal’s Consulting Work
Through Professionall
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Alongside Dr. Kathleen Bailey, Cal has been working on an independent mixed-methods research project designed to fill a research gap on leadership in world language education. The project surveyed over 250 educators across the U.S. using an online questionnaire and follow-up interviews with 60 of the respondents, allowing Cal to learn from experts’ wisdom.
Lead Author & Researcher
The Leadership in World Language Education Project
2021-Present • Remote
Podcast Host & Producer
Cal hosts the Pathways Podcast, an interview podcast that explores fascinating career paths from all sectors of the education profession to better understand what makes a quality educator. We navigate each stage of our guest’s career to explore their motivations, experiences, and beliefs throughout their professional pathways to encourage and prepare other educators.
The Pathways Podcast
2025-Present • Remote
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Cal’s Consulting Work
Before Professionall
Cal advised international high school students located around the globe to develop leadership skills by developing strategic and scalable research projects to address novel problems as a strategy for getting accepted to the Top 20 universities in the United States. Cal collaborated with a global team of advising professionals and experts assigned to each student’s case to strategize the development of each student’s leadership skills and project planning.
at Crimson Education
Leadership Advisor to
Youth Community Benefit Projects
2022–2023 • Remote
Development of Leadership Skills
Research Project Management
Cal served as project management advisor to support the refinement process and help each student identify project goals, track milestones, and solve problems, reporting successes and areas of concern to parents and case managers. Cal supported young leaders in the ideation and design of their research projects, aiding in identifying a unique need in their communities, choosing methods, and strategizing on maximizing the impact of the project.
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at Teacher’s Discovery
Curriculum Manager & Creative Director
2021–2022 • Remote
As Curriculum Developer, Cal produced two online Spanish textbooks of comprehensible-input stories to foster communicative proficiency for K-5th grade novice learners. In this role, Cal employed skills in interviewing and advising by developing a Native-Speaker interview series and through consulting educators on the implementation of the curricula.
Advising Educators on Curricular Integration
Among other innovations, Cal introduced the interview series to the company’s content by developing a process of using questions targeting learning goals and cultural topics of each unit, finding native speakers from all around the world within the target ages, getting informed consent, conducting interviews, guiding responses to meet language levels, and producing the videos. Cal developed a training program for managers to produce similar series across all titles and languages.
Native-Speaker Interview Series
Aside from producing the standard Teacher’s Guide materials to accompany the textbook, Cal met with teachers and program administrators across the country, advising them on tailoring the implementation within their unique contexts. Cal traveled to several regional conferences hosted by professional associations to advocate for the Voces catalogue and innovated new materials to aid in communicating the flexibility of the curricular format by building a Scope & Sequence for several target profiles.
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One-on-One Tutoring Experience
Private Virtual Tutoring
2020-2023 • Remote
Excluding working with classes of students, Cal has consulted one-on-one as a private tutor and as a departmental tutor, advising adult learners of French to develop proficiency, practice communicability, and refine language goals for purposes including travel and professional development.
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Tutoring at UNT
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Tutoring at MIIS
Teaching Assistant with TAPIF
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Tandem Tutor in Tours
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Graduate School Work
After enjoying the undergraduate thesis process and survey research, Cal continued exploring the profession through survey research in grad school through courses like Education Research Methods and other roles.
Editor & Author
Discourse & Repartée
2020 • MIIS
Cal had the honor of serving as Editor of Discourse & Repartée, the department’s annual report on current events related to the program’s current students, alumni, and faculty. To compile the report, Cal surveyed and interviewed the program’s students, alumni, and faculty to gather information about their recent professional achievements and upcoming opportunities.
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Alumni Advice Panels
2019-2021 • MIIS
While working as the Graduate Research Assistant to the Department Chair at MIIS, Cal organized a series of Alumni Advice Panels to connect students with professionals who want to share their expertise on topics such as interviewing for jobs and the lesser known pathways after graduation, conducting pre-panel interviews and hosting each panel’s discussion.
Organizer & Mediator
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WLE Program Ambassador
2020-2021 • MIIS Admissions
Cal consulted with newly admitted and prospective graduate students of the WLE programs via email and phone to provide clarification to questions about the programs, sharing the student perspective at MIIS, life in Monterey, and discussing professional growth opportunities.
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Graduate School Course Work
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“MALL: What Do Professors Think?”
2019 • MIIS
To apply concepts from a course on Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), Cal developed a study to analyze the ideologies and practices of ten language professors regarding the use of technology in their classrooms, revealing positive attitudes toward MALL but incongruent practices due to a lack of training and administrative constraints.
“Understanding Teacher Burnout”
2022 • IGI Global
Cal used survey methodologies to gain valuable input from 165 world language educators about their experience using burnout coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce the symptoms of teacher burnout. This is only one of many studies where Cal used survey research to advocate for the wellbeing of teachers and to study the education profession.
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Through several course projects, Cal had the opportunity to interview language learners and professionals working in similar professional areas of interest, such as world language education, program administration, and organization leadership, giving Cal access to valuable professional knowledge as well as experience learning to lead semi-structured interviews for research and professional development purposes.
Interviewing Leaders, Educators, & Learners
Outside of language classes, taking courses in Discourse Analysis and Teacher Supervision allowed Cal to understand the flow of discourse and the power of words as well as master the process of observation and feedback.
Understanding the Art of Discussion & Critique
Undergraduate Experience
Researcher & Author
“Mobile Apps in Language Education”
2018 • UNT
President, VP, & Liaison
GLAD: UNT’s Queer Alliance
2015-2018 • UNT
For over two years, Cal was an officer in GLAD, UNT’s student union for LGBTQ2S+ youth, serving as President, Vice President, & Media Liaison to organize community-building events, leading educational trainings on Queer life, culture, and history and events such as the Queer Family Panel Series, the Queer People of Color Panel in collaboration with the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, the Women’s March of January 2017, or walking in the 2016 Dallas Pride March.
Seeking to make the most of faculty expertise and composition courses, Cal volunteered to complete an honors thesis. While mentoring with Dr. Lawrence Williams, Cal researched the beliefs and attitudes of 114 university students toward the value of using language learning apps like Duolingo or Rosetta Stone as support to their in-class learning. This thesis project began Cal’s love for survey-driven research to voice the opinions of a community for their own benefit.
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Youth Experience
Editor & Author
Journalism, Newspaper, & Yearbook
2009-2012 • BHHS
As electives from middle school through high school, Cal enrolled in classes on AP English, journalism, newspaper, and yearbook, gaining experience in editing, interviewing people about current events, working as a photographer at community events, and developing skills in media editing processes.
PALs: Peers Assistance & Leadership Program
2014–2015 • BHHS
An award-winning, nationally recognized evidence-based prevention program, Cal was a PAL, nurturing and supporting youth, increasing resiliency, and building protective factors to help them achieve academic and social successes which lead to making a difference in their lives, schools, and communities.
Mentor & Tutor
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