Leah Alsteen Email & Phone Number

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Manages the implementation and effectiveness of the district’s Performance Management and Improvement System. • Ensures performance management and improvement process leads to a positive and measurable impact on Milwaukee Public Schools and the students it serves. • Coordinates reform efforts and implementation of the MPS Strategic Plans. • Researches and recommends appropriate district-wide performance and quality training and ensures alignment with strategic initiatives. • Helps to increase the performance management and quality improvement capacity of the district in order to ensure the district goals of increased student achievement, family and community engagement and efficient and effective operations are met. • Establishes a continuous performance and quality improvement effort and monitoring and reporting system. • Prepares a district accountability report aligned to the MPS Strategic Plan and budget. • Actively supports the MPS Strategic Plan. • Performs other duties as assigned.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Supports and directs school-based grant development and district-based grant proposal development up to $300,000. Reviews, refines and formats district-level materials for public dissemination. Develops, plans, organizes and conducts formal and informal face-to-face professional development for both school-based and district staff. Ensures applications align with district and school initiatives, and seeks opportunities to meet the needs of individual schools. Supports special projects.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Assist with finding and developing small grant proposals at the school level throughout the district.

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Communicating the mission and goals of TEAM UP with school counselors, school administration, & community-based organizations in order to build collaborative relationships• Writing grants and other project proposals in order to sustain the operation of the Centers• Planning high-detail events such as the Fresh Coast Classic College & Resource Fair• Compiling student data and writing narratives as needed and for quarterly reports to funder• Closely monitoring budget and preparing a monthly budget report for funder

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Interacting with students and families at the Centers as well as at outreach events• Coordinating staff assignments and outreach, scheduling and planning meetings and professional development opportunities• Closely monitoring budget and preparing a monthly budget report for funder• Processing direct pays, purchase orders, and contracts for TEAM UP expenses• Supervising the work of Operations Clerks• Managing personnel files, time sheet verification, new hire paperwork, resignations

Greater Milwaukee Area

• Interact with students and families in person and over the phone with regards to school enrollment, transfers, and disciplinary hearings• Maintain database of district-wide student disciplinary hearings• Compile correspondence for high-level disciplinary hearings and handle scheduling conflicts for coordinators

Greater Milwaukee Area

Promoted to Level Two Technician after one semester of work• Assist clients with issues that could not be resolved by Level One Consultants• Help build rapport through phone, email, and face-to-face contact with clients whodid not always receive satisfactory service from Level One Consultants• Test various UWM-related web services• Assist clients in person at campus computer labs, as well as over the phone andthrough email, with technical and general inquiries related to UWM• Maintain cleanliness of the labs, report issues with computers and printers asneeded

Master Of Science (M.S.), Organizational Leadership & Administration

B.A., English