Megan B. Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

◦ Pedagogy and assessment research: Serve as the in-house expert on assessment and second language acquisition pedagogy. Ensure that our products support research-based instructional strategies. Create presentations and support materials for adoptions. ◦ Print, multimedia, and digital content development: Plan and review instructional materials in all formats (print, audio, video, and digital). ◦ Professional development for teachers: Identify professional development needs of teachers using Cheng & Tsui products. Create presentations or content-based solutions to meet these needs.◦ Recruit authors and subject matter experts: Identify SMEs, negotiate contracts, and coordinate their collaboration with the in-house curriculum development team. ◦ Team building: Hire, train, and manage a bilingual team of editors and teachers (both in-house and freelance). Conduct job evaluations and seek out opportunities for staff development. ◦ Market research: Organize teacher roundtables and actively solicit market input to improve existing products. Create prototypes and conduct market research for new product development.◦ Strategy: Identify priorities for content development based on adoption needs to define the scope of multiyear product development plans.◦ Instructional design: Research and interpret state standards to establish learning objectives. Create content development plans for both print and digital components to meet learning objectives through a backward design process structured around Essential Questions and unit-level Integrated Performance Assessments. ◦ Project management: Develop schedules in coordination with production and digital managers. Manage team workflow across multiple interdependent components. Identify tools and processes to decrease the time of each product iteration. Create all documentation necessary for content creation, including writing instructions. Establish quality control protocols, such as fact checking.

Remote

◦ Digital assessment development: Full-time, short-term project standing in for a Supervising Editor out on leave. Worked under tight deadlines to prepare digital test items to bring the high school and middle grades U.S. History programs into alignment with Texas standards.

Boston

◦ Instructional design: Trained with Grant Wiggins and worked within the social studies academic design team to develop content plans, Essential Questions, and assessment for new products. Created a comprehensive analysis of the middle school world studies curricula for all fifty states by researching standards and collaborating with adoption managers to gather course information from key districts. This analysis was a key to the development of the scope and sequence for the myWorld history and geography series, which won a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in 2010.◦ Market research: Created multiple prototype lessons for new middle school geography and history textbooks. Revised prototypes based on teacher feedback through interviews and surveys. ◦ Print and digital content development: Collaborated with authors to outline content to ensure requisite state standards were met. Edited manuscript, conducted photo research, and reviewed page proof for all print components, including the textbook, workbook, and support materials for ELs. Wrote content for digital products, including animations and interactive maps/timelines. ◦ Supervisory responsibilities: Managed assignments, set deadlines, and reviewed the work of freelance editors. Trained newly hired editorial staff.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

◦ Project management: Took a leading role in the first social studies project to achieve simultaneous printing of state custom and national products. Collaborated with national editorial, design, production, and publishing processes departments to develop protocols to manage shared content files for over thirty titles.◦ Manage outsourcing: Included supervising freelance editors, drafting requests for proposals, reviewing bids, providing writing instructions, developing schedules, fact checking, content editing, and copy editing.

Watertown, Ma

◦ Reformatted and edited curriculum units written by teachers for inclusion on the website. Edited documents created by scholars and staff members whose native language is Mandarin.◦ Provided translation and project support for professional development seminars on international education and Chinese history. ◦ Evaluated the content of Chinese history curriculum units and selected units for the library collection based on the needs of teachers participating in our programs. Developed procedures to organize the collection of curriculum units and make them more accessible to teachers.

Cambridge, Ma

◦ Conducted research on topics including local political reform, militias, and the coal industry in China.◦ Expanded indexes of historical archives by consulting relevant Chinese gazetteers. ◦ Created a guide to help graduate students better utilize the Chinese archival materials available at Harvard.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

◦ Edited and translated market research surveys, reports, and other company literature.◦ Interviewed representatives from foreign firms and generated recommendations for future restructuring of the China High Technology Fair.◦ Represented the company at business functions and negotiations.

Jinan, Shandong, China

English Teacher/Foreign Expert◦ Created course plans and developed activities and assessment for all classes taught. ◦ Personalized instruction by designing a diagnostic assessment that helped students identify specific goals to focus on to improve their English proficiency. ◦ Collaborated in restructuring the English department curriculum to significantly increase the number of students able to participate in oral English classes.◦ Lectured on American culture and acted as a cultural liaison at local trade fairs and formal ceremonies.

Ma, East Asian Studies

Mandarin Chinese

Bachelor’S Degree, History And Biology, 3.9

Graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, James Bowdoin Scholar. Senior research paper on medicine in colonial Mexico earned the Spector.

Education record

Received the highest grade in five of eight courses taken.