Jennifer Applebaum Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage the development of a diverse portfolio of state-funded workforce development grants- over $27 million annually focused on training support for environmental justice communities, economic development for minority.
• Guide the design and implementation of technical assistance efforts focused on increasing programmatic outcomes for grantees.
• Support expanded organizational impact through programmatic recommendations and partnership development
• Contribute to strategic planning, organizational governance, and board engagement as a member of the Executive Team

• Led strategic planning by developing and executing a multi-year plan supporting the expansion of seven regions serving 25 states and improvement across key metrics of impact.
• Provided strategic direction for integrating entrepreneurship education into workforce development and career and technical education programming in secondary and post-secondary settings.
• Supported expanded organizational thought-leadership by ghost-writing op-eds, congressional testimony, and conference presentations.
• Redesigned and directly manage the human resources department, leading to integrating and expanding DEI efforts, instituting a learning and development program, and bringing the full recruiting cycle in-house.

Boston, MA

• Associate Director of Curriculum Development and Training (April 2016 to February 2018)Senior Program Manager: Curriculum Development and Training (July 2014 to April 2016)Program Manager, Training and Support (Youth.
• Managed a robust portfolio of state-funded grants- over $55 million since taking on the director role. Led the development of a new outcomes-focused approach ensuring that programs track key work readiness and.
• Guided the redesign of a statewide youth employment program into a career pathway program with hybrid and virtual work and learning solutions focused on equitable access to sustainable careers aligned to regional.
• Led the development, sales, and implementation efforts to launch and grow a suite of career readiness and soft-skills training solutions that to date have benefitted more than 100,000 youth and adult learners in a vast.
• Designed and implemented annual professional development strategies to support the learning and development for 200 to 400 workforce development staff among partner organizations. Introduced a holistic model- inclusive.
• Oversaw a team of ten full-time staff and 20-plus consultants across curriculum development, training, program management, evaluation, instruction, fiscal, marketing and design functions

Greater New York City Area

• Pitched the product, services and company to investors, educators, principals, superintendents, and statewide education officials yielding key inflection points for the company such as selection into Betaspring, a.
• Spearheaded the user interface, functionality, and branding redesign of LessonWriter Version 2.0 while implementing an agile project management approach to ensure efficiency and collaboration across staff and consultants
• Designed and led professional development trainings on effective strategies for ESL and literacy instruction, lesson differentiation, data collection and blended learning with LessonWriter Tools
• Designed key product features and standards based curriculum for content-sites
• Led organizational strategic planning and contributed to staff development, in-house financial monitoring, and promotional, business, and instructional writing,

Greater New York City Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed a suite of academic course offerings to expand company services and coordinated the implementation of a blended learning component into preparation courses, which resulted increased student outcomes and.
• Led full time staff of four and a part-time/consultant-based team of 25 educators and counselors. Instituted a training and coaching model to support a new layer or junior instructors which increased client.
• Supported strong relationships with local school districts
• Led both large-group workshops for parents and students on college admissions and educational development and small family consultations regarding academic and college entrance support plans
• Taught math, writing and test preparation courses in addition to working with students individually

• Taught intermediate and advanced level ESL course to a diverse adult population
• Adapted and designed materials to support a theme-based, differentiated curriculum

• Taught Mathematics, Science, Advisory, Journalism, Health, and Reading courses to a variety of populations such as general education, CTT (special education/ gen. ed. mix), Special Education Inclusion (12:1), and.
• Designed and implemented a high-school level Living Environment Regents Program for 6th graders
• Supported fellow teachers as an Advisory coordinator, and wrote parts of the advisory curriculum
• Served on School Leadership Teams and School Inquiry Teams, mentored an Aspiring Teacher Candidate

• Facilitated workshops on HIV/AIDS for students of all ages in both public and private school settings
• Served as a committee co-chair for the Public Schools Task Force on HIV/AIDS, organized advocacy projects, media efforts, and events with other CBOs
• Participated in organizational strategic planning, fundraising and development projects, and staff development for part-time staff.

• Communicated directly with educators and students about program-related questions
• Completed research reports tracking the classroom implementation of the test preparation software

• Coordinated Peer Review Process for incoming articles and assisted with public relations and online and library research
• Implemented network system, created databases, and addressed web issues
• Worked on projects such as the distribution of 1998 Supplement on Emergency Contraception and the creation of JAMWA’s Women’s Health Link Library

New York, NY

• Researched sex-education websites
• Created database of information on web-related resources for initiative to encourage parents to be better sex-educators for their children

• Contributed to creating and managing databases concerning subjects such as constituent files, property statistics, and press records

• Researched literature pertinent to grant proposal and helped write the grant
• Assisted in designing a training manual for project SAFE, an HIV prevention program for teens

Ba, Women'S Studies

Activities and Societies: Well-Woman (Peer Health Education Program), The W omen's Collective, Columbia University's Community Impact.

Msed, Secondary Mathematics Education

Graduate Thesis Topic: The Effectiveness of Reciprocal Teaching as a Strategy for Promoting Literacy in Content-Area Courses