Ethan Ake-Little Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Center Valley, Pennsylvania, United States

Oversee the successful execution of all human resources-related functions in a midsize suburban school district ranked in the Top 7% of all districts nationally (Niche 2022 Rankings) with 425+ employees serving 3,150 students.

Wallingford, Pennsylvania, United States

• Responsible for the successful execution of all human resources-related functions in a midsized suburban school district with 525+ employees serving 3,750 students. Duties included recruitment, retention, and.
• Redesigned the District’s recruitment process to create more comprehensive criterion and expedite onboarding, resulting in the hiring of 33 professional vacancies (10% of bargaining unit) with certificated staff for.
• Imposed purposeful controls on personnel expenditure which compromised 70% of the $92M district budget; created competitive salary schedules (ranges) for non-represented groups.
• Acted as Chief interpreter and enforcer of the district’s collective bargaining agreements; authored two Memorandum of Understandings with the professional and support staff which resulted in the stabilization of.
• Collaborated as a Management Trustee for the Delaware County Public Schools Healthcare Trust, a consortium of districts that collectively negotiates medical and prescription coverage, to develop a three-year rate.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as instructor of record for courses for the following education leadership courses.
• URBE 5401: Policy & Practice in Urban Education (Summer 2023 Term)
• EDUC 5325: Introduction to Statistics and Research (Fall 2019 Term)
• EDAD 8635: Education Policy Analysis (Fall 2022 Term)

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Responsible for a team of 12 professionals supporting the operations of 55+ affiliates serving over 26,500 members throughout K-12 and higher education sectors. Functioned as the organization’s de facto human resources.
• Restructured the FY2020-21 and FY2021-22 budgets (~$2 million per year) resulting in an annual savings of ~$400,000, which was then rebated to affiliates to support COVID-19 related relief programs for members.
• Launched the Labor Leadership Program, a 40hrs. training program for new labor leaders in the areas of membership engagement, union management, education policy and economics, grievances and arbitrations, and the.
• Partnered with the PA Department of Education in the redesign of the teacher evaluation framework under ACT 13 of 2020, resulting in the inclusion of diversity and equity standards (Domain 2) as well as instructional.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Responsible for the development and implementation of an integrated secondary STEM program in a district consisting of 130,000+ students across 215 schools.
• Engineered the creation of the STEM Academies Initiative, an interdisciplinary STEM pilot program in 12 district schools inclusive of both primary and secondary, underperforming, and high performing schools from 2020.
• Partnered with GlaxoSmithKline to secure additional resources to fund the STEM Academies Imitative, resulting in a $10 million grant ($1 million per year for 10 years) shared between the District and the Philadelphia.
• Deputized as Intermediate Unit 26’s STEM Person of Contact, resulting in the creation of a STEM Leadership Council responsible for facilitating STEM directives between the PA Department of Education and Local Education.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as a graduate employee in the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, which oversees academic programming for over 30,000 undergraduate students in an urban, public, Research Tier 1 institution.
• Produced quantitative research reports (e.g. effects of class size, probability of grade inflation by department) for the General Education Executive Committee; identified institutional trends by developing statistical.
• Collaborated on the assessment and evaluation of the General Education program in preparation for Middle States Council on Higher Education 2019 accreditation process.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as President of the Temple University Graduate Students Association (TUGSA), a local labor union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (Local #6290) that represents 800+ teaching and research.
• Chaired the union’s 2018-2022 Contract Negotiation Team and mapped the University’s graduate operations, which resulted in a more strategic and data-driven collective bargaining process designed to be inclusive of the.
• Revamped organizational finances and hierarchy through constitutional reform, which resulted in more efficient and responsive decision-making; additionally, reformed communications protocol (e.g., redesigning the TUGSA.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as Grade 11/12 AP/Honors Biology Teacher to a population of 70+ students in a suburban, independent, all-girls, K-12 inclusive school.
• Overhauled the AP Biology curriculum and instruction plan, resulting in a 20-percentage point increase between the 2013 (mean: 2.82) and 2016 (mean: 3.48) cohorts; successfully evaluated as proficient/ exemplary on all.
• Co-creator of a weeklong engineering immersion course (40 hrs.) designed to introduce female students to engineering disciplines and served as Independent Science Research adviser for rising senior students in the.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Served as Grade 9/10 Biology Teacher to a student population of 140+ students of a Title I school with 75%+ of the population on the free or reduced lunch program and 30%+ special education and ELL population.
• Jointly redesigned the HS biology curriculum and instruction plan, resulting in a ~16 percentage point increase in Keystone Biology results between 2014 and 2016 cohorts; successfully evaluated as.
• Mentored the Grade 9 Health teacher, resulting in increased classroom management support, assistance with lesson planning, and periodic feedback via informal observations.

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Activities and Societies: Russell Conwell Law Scholarship (75% Tuition)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Urban Education And Leadership

Activities and Societies: American/Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators (2017-Present), American MENSA (Member.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Secondary Education And Teaching

Activities and Societies: National Science Teachers Association (Member; 2012-Present)Completed 33 credits including 9 credits in Special.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History & Political Science (Major), Biological Sciences (Minor)

Accepted and enrolled in the Accelerated BA/MD Program, which allowed for completion of an undergraduate degree (150crs.) in three (3).

H.S. Diploma

Graduated in the top 10% of the graduating Class of 2003 (~550 students). As of 2019, John P. Stevens High School was ranked by U.S. News.