Matthew Davidoff Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Adjunct faculty member, designing and facilitating graduate-level courses, professional development, and in-service teacher training in K-12 literacy and writing.

United States

Camden, New Jersey

• Played a key role in crafting charter's 5 year strategic plan • Worked in partnership with Chair and Executive Director as charter gained independence from longstanding CMO • Served on a board to ensure Democracy Prep schools are continually serving the students, families, and communities to the best of their abilities. • Helped to ensure school practices are aligned with the charter's mission. • Oversaw staffing and budgetary decisions.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Using various data points and state standards to create small group ESL lessons to students of varying linguistic and developmental levels. • Working closely with homeroom teachers, school leadership, and students’ families to ensure all stakeholders are valued and represented. • Providing (a)synchronous lessons, adapting to student limitations of technology access, in-home responsibilities and distractions, etc.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Designed lessons, materials, and curriculum in line with (or exceeding) rigorous Pennsylvania state standards in Math, ELA, and Science.• Utilized various assessments, anecdotal data points, progress monitoring tools, and online interventions to monitor student growth and to increase student reading levels by an average of 7 levels and 50 words per minute; made similar growth in math.• Differentiated instruction to meet the needs of ELL, SPED, and gifted students in a diverse public-school setting, while implementing SEL, trauma-informed disciplinary practices, peer mediation, and restorative discussions and circles.

Greater Philadelphia Area

In addition to serving for two years as a public school teacher in a title-one school, as a TFA corps member, I participated in monthly professional development sessions (mostly focused on cultural competency, diversity and equity, and leadership in teaching) and participated in a monthly community service activity.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Gathered and Synthesized project-based literature for ongoing literature review and summarized all relevant media.• Edited and formatted fact sheets, statistical analyses, and qualitative reports for submission to client.• Analyzed interview recordings and assisted with coding of qualitative research.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Summarized and evaluated various academic journal articles for use in an online platform (CPRE Knowledge Hub) designed to connect policy makers, educational leaders, and practitioners to one another and to research on current educational initiatives.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Assisted Director of Analytics on various projects, including consolidating and evaluating teacher survey data, consulting on curriculum aligned to PSSA/MAP/ Keystone exams, and using “Illuminate” software to upload, edit and analyze assessments.• Worked with Director of Special Education on accreditation inspection preparation and clerical tasks.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Directed the opening of EF’s Mills College branch, recruiting, training, and managing 20 academic and residential staff members.• Oversaw all school operations, including course scheduling, school-wide events, national accreditation, and compliance with our organization’s international team.• Doubled our college partnerships and ensured that 90% to 95% of our students were accepted to college.• Increased student enrollment by 150% over 2.5 years • Designed curriculum and advised, mentored, and taught students on the college/ graduate school admissions process.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Taught TOEFL and CAE test prep skills, Business English, and general English conversation, as well as specialized workshops focusing on pronunciation, idioms and slang, American culture, and public speaking, in a private, adult, international language school. • Researched new teaching methods and activities to construct and evolve a dynamic, comprehensive EFL curriculum, working with student centered learning, the communicative method, and the lexical approach. • Taught adults from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, following a loose curriculum and gathering activities to keep students interested, included, engaged, and confident.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Taught SAT/ACT preparation and college application classes, traveling around the Bay Area, adapting to new communities and student needs.• Spent a significant amount of time in low-income communities with Kaplan’s non-profit partner org’s: Faces for the Future and CollegeTrack.• Mentored new teachers, sharing specific methods and best practices, conducting observations, providing feedback, and supporting growth.

Alameda, Ca

• Designed and implemented Spanish course curriculum and evaluation procedures, taught Spanish classes to K-5 students at a small, private, foreign language school.

Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Washington Dc, New York, Los Angeles

• Managed a team of 20 teachers organizing and facilitating a global youth conference of 400 international MUN students. • Traveled across the world overseeing educational excursions, academic lessons, and simulation activities pertaining to the UN, G20, and WTO. • Supported students with homesickness, culture shock, language barriers, and teenage angst.

Taipei, Taiwan

• Traveled with the Taiwanese government’s official tourism magazine, conducting interviews and exploring national tourist destinations. • Worked under guidelines from editors and government officials to put these experiences into 1400 words of informative, concise prose. • Conducted research to fully embrace topics and doubled readership by writing my own, bimonthly column, sharing a Western perspective on ex-pat life in Taiwan.

Taichung/ Taipei, Taiwan

• Taught elementary and high school ESL (math, science, and social studies) in the public, K-12 system in Taiwan. • Worked with a large team of teachers creating and sharing course content and curriculum, practices, and methods.

K-12 Esl Specialist Certificate, K-12 Esl

Pre K - 4 Pennsylvania Teaching Certificate, Urban Teaching Residency

Master’S Of Science, Education Policy

Certificate, Tesol

Achievement Of Intermediate Mandarin Proficiency

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics/ Language Studies