Alli Sobiecki Email & Phone Number

Oversee curriculum, assessment, and alignment for all Newsela products.Develop a strong strategy for the content roadmap, informed by market need, text and media partnerships, and regional and federal requirements.Partner with tech and product counterparts to create innovative tooling and processes that enable production of dynamic instructional content at scale through stable and reliable front-to-back-end data architecture.Serve as content and curriculum expert for due diligence and integration planning throughout merger and acquisition operations.Establish protocols for ensuring consistency and quality of instructional content across and within Newsela products and portfolios.Develop and lead strategic initiatives to ensure all Newsela content is well-aligned to state and national academic standards as well as instructional mandates.Scale development and production of formative and summative assessment solutions, publishing assessment complements for numerous content assets (articles, videos, multimedia) daily.

• Oversaw development and design of formative and summative assessments for K-12 core and elective courses in virtual and blended environments.• Managed and verified alignment of courses and assessments to national and state standards.• Led organization in adoption and implementation of assessment authoring and rendering tools, technology-enhanced items, and best practices associated with next generation assessment.• Developed resources and delivered in-person and virtual professional development sessions on assessment and qualitative and quantitative measures of cognitive rigor.• Generated reports and provided data-driven recommendations to teachers, school leaders, and curriculum developers based onstudent performance on formative and summative assessments.• Ensured compliance with accreditation requirements concerning alignment to governing standards and the development of and fidelity to curriculum-based assessment.• Effectively used a range of collaborative tools to engage with and supervise teams of full-time and seasonal employees, both in-person and remote, to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality work.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Acquired deep knowledge of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and related assessment consortia; made instructional recommendations for program alignment and achievement with the CCSS. • Researched and designed grade-level benchmark assessment maps; managed development of benchmark reading assessments correlated to high stakes summative assessments.• Developed curriculum and supportive resources for a comprehensive elementary reading program; reviewed lessons and products written by development team for quality and accuracy.• Developed professional development resources and trainings for teachers, administrators, and coaches.• Co-authored expository children's books for use in Reading Wings elementary curriculum.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Developed curriculum and supportive resources for a comprehensive elementary reading program.• Developed curriculum and supportive resources intended to build and strengthen phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, mathematics and other fundamental skills for a full-day kindergarten program.• Developed professional development resources and trainings for teachers, administrators, and coaches.

Toulouse, France

• Served as the English instructor for more than 350 students in two primary schools. • Developed language and culture lessons in alignment with the French Ministry of National Education.• Used co-teaching strategies with general education teachers to differentiate instruction and teach English in the content areas.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Copy edited national K-8 reading and mathematics curriculum and aided design team in construction of educational resources.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

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Certificat Pratique De Langue Française