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Robin Finley
Founder of TASSEL Time
Robin is beginning her 18th year as
an educator. She has taught the following courses during her
experience as an educator working for 2 school systems:
English, journalism, speech, drama, Bible, career education 7-12th
grade P.E., health, junior and senior high girls’ basketball
and track, and senior boys’ track.
She has held a variety of positions within the k-12 school
system:
Athletic director, academic advisor, assistant principal,
technology specialist and counselor.
By applying her experience in her self-acquired scholarship
searching principles, test-preparation techniques and skills, and
along with the help of a wonderful teaching staff, Robin helped guide
35 seniors to a scholarship offering of over 1 Million Dollars. Her
desire is to implement this knowledge to help every student cost effectively
attend the college they desire.
Education / Certifications
- B.S. in education from Oklahoma State University
- M.Ed. in educational administration from the University of Arkansas
- Final semester of her Ed. S. degree in educational administration
at the University of Arkansas
- Licensure/certification from Oklahoma and Arkansas
- Nine areas of teacher certification
- Secondary principal certification
- Superintendent certification
- Test administrator for the following assessments: PSAT, PLAN,
EXPLORE, ACT, Sat 9, Iowa Basic and Benchmark
- In-service presentations and workshops in the areas of testing,
technology, careers and college information
- Instructor provider for CPR /First Aid Red Cross courses
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Honors / Accomplishments
- Former President of Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor
Society)
- Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers
- Two-time Arkansas Activities Association West Girls’ All-Star
Basketball Coach
- Seven-time conference girls’ basketball coach of the year
- As Athletic Director, her teams won 11 state championships
- 2005-06 Northwest Arkansas Counselor Association Advocate of
the Year
- 2006-2007 Arkansas Counselor Association Advocate of the
Year
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As a coach for basketball and track:
- Thirty-four conference and district championship titles
- Twenty-three tournament championship titles
- Four state titles
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A Note from the Founder:
When I began helping seventh thru twelfth grade
students with college and career planning, I quickly became very frustrated
with the time-consuming process of finding legitimate websites concerning
scholarships. If you type in "scholarships" into a search engine
you will get hits ranging from 7 to 14 million sites, depending on
the search engine you use. As I began the tedious task of searching
through these sites, I made a listing of the name and URL’s of the
best sites. These I placed on a hand-out to go home. A low percentage
of these hand-outs actually reached mom and dad. I became increasingly
frustrated in my attempt to figure out how to make sure parents saw
this important information. During my master’s program at the
University of Arkansas, I was enrolled in a technology course in which
we had to develop a 5-page website. I decided to put all my
favorite links on these pages as an aid to students and parents.
After presenting my idea with my website to a class of up and coming
administrators, several of my classmates along with my professor urged
me to present this format to a wider audience. I later presented
a more informative version of this site to my school and community
relations course. The instructor, along with many of my administrator
colleagues urged me to pursue completing the site as an educational
business venture. The goal of the site is to help counselors,
parents and students locate valuable career and collegiate sites in
a timely manner, without having to sort through the enormous amount
of sites available. Recognizing that preparing for college begins
early in the elementary years. My original idea grew from about
four written pages listing hundreds of sites to 100+ pages listing
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