ALISON PROCOPIO, M.S.Ed.323 Wayne Ave. ~ Springfield, PA 19064

Cell#: 703 599-7308 alison.nathan@gmail.com

S UMMARY OF Q UALIFICATIONS Educational Leader ~ Planning & Conceptualization ~ Analytical ~ Articulate

Accomplished, visionary educator with 10+ years of proven success in curriculum, assessment and professional development training. Perceptive leader with superior communication and training skills; easily interacts with administrators, teachers, and students in diverse whole class settings and professional learning communities with additional capabilities in:

♦ Assessment Design ♦ Strategic Planning ♦ Curriculum Design♦ Workshop Development ♦ Data Analysis ♦ Professional Development♦ State Standards ♦ Education Policy ♦ Management

EDUCATION: Masters Degree in Education and Human Development, Area of Focus: Education Policy Studies, The George Washington University, Washington DC, Dec. 2004 GPA: 3.65

Bachelors of Arts, Inclusive Elementary and Special Education, Summa Cum Laude with Honors, Syracuse University, Syracuse University, May 2000 GPA: 3.78

EXPERIENCE: ELA Assessment Specialist – Philadelphia, PA/Tel Aviv, Israel 11/2008–presentTime to Know Inc.,Oversee the development of a comprehensive language arts assessment system for an international educational technology company.Job highlights include: • Advising on components of a computerized assessment system and item authoring tool.• Writing, reviewing, and editing items for content validity, bias and sensitivities, and grade-

level appropriateness.• Aligning state standards to national standards including the Core Common State Standards. • Creating test blueprints based on various state assessments and designing and/or approving

all test forms.• Managing a pool of assessment items. • Creating and facilitating item writer workshops.• Ensuring items and content align to specific state’s standards. • Consulting on research opportunities and current research on assessment.

Director of Academic Credibility– King of Prussia, PA 11/2005–3/2008American Reading CompanyServed as director of compliance and new product manager for a multi-million dollar educational services company by ensuring all products met the requirements of state and federal regulations and policies. • Maintained project schedules and managed daily activities of staff.• Edited, reviewed, and aligned curriculum to different state standards.• Analyzed and tracked test score data and communicated those successes to customers.• Acted as liaison between marketing, curriculum design, and sales departments.• Conducted need assessments to determine future product development.• Participated in monthly leadership workshops.• Worked with and advised top executives on reading assessments and new product ideas.

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• Reported directly to company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on major projects.

ELA Content Specialist / Research Analyst – Washington, DC 8/2002–10/2005American Institutes for Research

Assessment achievements included the following: • Managed the development of the Ohio Achievement Reading and Writing Tests, included

overseeing passage selection, item bank development, and field test and operational forms assembly.

• Maintained and managed item pool schedules for Reading and Writing test development, grades 3-8.

• Wrote, edited, and reviewed multiple choice and constructed response test items, based on specifications, grades 1-8 for content validity, bias and sensitivity, and grade-level appropriateness.

• Worked with psychometrics team while creating field and operational test forms ensuring statistical requirements were met.

• Created and led external Professional Development workshops including the recruitment of attendees, development of training materials, and facilitation of the training session.

• Trained, managed, and was primary contact for a group of Reading and Writing outside consultants.

• Led range finding and content committee review meetings comprised of clients, teachers, administrators, and politicians.

• Developed stimuli and associated items for alternative assessments.Research Analyst: areas of research included adolescent literacy; alternative teacher certification programs; and ELL and alternate assessments.

Fifth Grade Teacher–Cleveland Heights, OH 9/2000–6/2002Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District Boulevard Elementary School In-class accomplishments:

• Maximized student achievement by utilizing systematic lesson planning emphasizing standards and assessments.

• Planned developmentally appropriate activities following weekly themes.

• Implemented classroom management strategies to maintain a safe learning environment.• Subject areas taught included: Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Civics, and

Mathematics. Out of the classroom leadership accomplishments:

• Served as the school’s content advisory committee representative.

• Served as school’s union representative.

• Coached the district high school’s girls softball, and field hockey teams.

HONORS: Education Policy Fellowship Program, Institute for Educational Leadership 9/2004–6/2005Washington, DC

PRESENTATIONS:• Bacevich, A., Nathan, A., & Salinger, T. (2005, May). The Challenges and Successes of a State-

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wide Reading Program; The Alabama Reading Initiative. Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association, San Antonio, Texas.

• Bacevich, A., Nathan, A., & Salinger, T. (2005, May). A Descriptive Study of a State-wide Reading Program; The Alabama Reading Initiative. Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

PAPERS:• (Cited researcher in) Salinger. T & Bacevich, A. (2006). Lessons and recommendations from the

Alabama Reading Initiative. Carnegie Corporation of New York.• (Contributing author) Offenburg, R. (2006). 100 Book Challenge as a strategy for improving

reading achievement of children poorly served by traditional instruction: African American and early independent readers. In press.

Relevant Experiences in Educational Consulting Include:

• MAP Test, Northwest Evaluation Association: Authored a large bank of passages and multiple choice items, based on NWEA item specifications, for Language Usage and Reading: grades 2-10.

• Leveled-Readers: Wrote and edited leveled readers at the pre, on, and above levels for grades 2-4 for educational publishing companies.

• Teacher’s Guide, (through InkPress Inc.): Wrote and edited teacher and student extension activities to accompany the basal reader.

• Item Bank Development Project, New Leaders for New Schools: Developed content standards mapping materials for Reading and Writing. Aligned Reading and Writing items, grades 3-8, to five sets of state standards. Wrote items to fill missing gaps in standards to complete an item bank. Edited Reading passages, items, and teacher materials.

• Alamance-Burlington, NC School District Benchmark Assessment, (through Success Matters): Developed and edited English I, Grade 10 Benchmark Assessment based on the North Carolina End-of-Course English Assessment. Authored passages, multiple-choice and constructed response items, and assembled and designed test forms using InDesign.

• Professional Development on Assessment, (through Success Matters): Facilitated district-wide professional development workshops for teachers and administrators examining the rationale behind assessment, how to create assessment items, and how to use assessment results in the classroom.

• Test-Prep Manuals: Edited and revised assessment booklets for student workbooks based on the NJ and NC state assessments.

• Thinkgate Alignment Project, (through Success Matters): Reviewed, edited, and aligned approximately 1,700 items to five different states’ standards for Language Arts, grades 3 and 4.

• The Ohio Achievement Test and The Hawaii State Assessment, American Institutes for Research: Wrote multiple choice and constructed response items for Reading, Writing, and Social Studies tests, grades 3-10, based on item specifications and alignment to state standards. Developed scoring guidelines for constructed response items. Chose grade-level reading passages based on passage selection guidelines.

• FCAT Practice Book (through Michael Priestley, Publisher): Wrote teacher and student edition test preparation materials for Reading, including items and passages.

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• International Reading Association (IRA): Reviewed, coded, and rated professional articles about teacher preparation programs identifying which should be included in an IRA report.

• Competitive Market Analysis, MMS Education: Conducted competitive market analyses examining costs, components, content, and standards alignments for a variety of educational products.

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