Allison Rodman Email & Phone Number

Haddonfield, Nj

Allison Rodman is the Founder and Chief Learning Officer of The Learning Loop, an educational consulting organization that provides professional learning services to districts, schools, nonprofit organizations, and businesses internationally. This includes work with public, charter, and independent schools, over 20 archdioceses, and over 60 sites across the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).​Allison is an ASCD Faculty Member and author of "Still Learning: Strengthening Professional and Organizational Capacity" (2023) and "Personalized Professional Learning: A Job-Embedded Pathway for Elevating Teacher Voice" (2019). Her work focuses on adult learners, and she has written for Educational Leadership on professional learning, effective teams, and educator wellness, as well as Education Week's Classroom Q&A and Edutopia.Allison brings experience as a teacher, instructional coach, school leader, director of teaching and learning, director of professional learning, and board member. This provides her with unique perspectives on coaching and teacher leadership in addition to school and district leadership.The goal of her work is to help adult learners:🌱 View learning as an ongoing experience (not an endpoint or one-time workshop)🌱 Strengthen their professional and organizational capacity🌱 Create deliberately developmental organizations.Allison keynotes and facilitates workshops focused on personalized professional learning and educator capacity strengthening. She has presented nationally and internationally for:🎙️ ASCD🎙️ Learning Forward🎙️ Innovative Schools Summit🎙️ U.S. Department of Education’s Teach to Lead Alumni Summit🎙️ National Association of Elementary School Principals🎙️ National Association of Secondary School Principals 🎙️ National Association of Independent Schools 🎙️ National Catholic Education Association

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Allison worked with Eduplanet21 as a professional learning path partner and PLUS author to support educators' professional learning and curriculum design needs with pre-developed and customizable learning paths. She built pathways that enabled educators to learn new concepts, apply them to instruction, and ultimately engage students in personalized and powerful ways.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Maintained a positive and results-driven learning environment for 800+ students (grades 7-12) that supported the whole child.• Supervised and evaluated 36 teachers and 2 counselors.• Designed and managed personalized professional development model which included new teacher induction, peer review, data analysis, professional learning communities, workshops (in-person, online, and blended), and one-on-one and small group instructional planning support.• Constructed effective observation tools to focus administrative, coach, peer, and self-observations and accelerate teacher development and student learning.• Recognized as School District of Philadelphia 2015 and 2016 Peer Leader.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Analyzed school, curriculum team, and grade level student achievement trends and planned appropriate action steps for improvement.• Co-led content-based teams to draft, pilot, and revise standards-aligned curriculum frameworks and common rubrics.• Supervised curriculum coordinators’ design and revision of program maps, scope and sequence guides, cornerstone assessments (i.e., authentic transfer tasks) and exemplars, including alignment to Pennsylvania Core Standards.• Guided teachers’ utilization of diagnostic, predictive, and benchmark data through the design of data analysis and action planning tools.• Represented school at hiring fairs and recruitment events.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Managed improvement/monitoring plans for beginning and developing teachers, including classroom observations and one-on-one coaching. • Collaborated with administrative team to draft mission, learning principles, and student measures of success.• Drafted job descriptions, goals and key actions, and evaluation tools for all instructional positions.• Increased standardization, efficiency, and effectiveness of teacher hiring process through the design of screening and team interview protocols.• Improved overall school culture, focusing on a climate of positive and respectful communication, through the planning and implementation of a student management plan centered on restorative practices.• Addressed the needs of special populations (special education, ELL, and gifted) and learner variables (readiness, interest, and learning profiles) by identifying and coaching specific cooperative learning and differentiation strategies.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Developed innovative, standards-aligned social studies curricula.• Served as grade-level lead for grades 10-11 and community building coordinator for grades 6-12.• Participated in literacy, student engagement, technology, and staff communication committees.• Conducted “Culture for Learning” ethnographic study.

Philadelphia, Pa

Master Of Science, Educational Leadership

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science And Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Pi, President of Volunteer Action Council, Captain of Cheerleading Team

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, German Honor Society, Varsity Cheerleading Team