Sara Judy, Phd Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

✔Manage a team of curriculum developers creating content to support and enhance the ongoing implementation of Wit & Wisdom, a core ELA curriculum for grades K-8 with partners in all 50 states and over $44m in sales. ✔Lead a high-achieving content development team for ongoing maintenance of Wit & Wisdom, hiring and training content developers, vendors, editors, and onboarding associate product managers, while fostering a team culture of transparency, collaboration, and commitment to quality.✔Provide on-demand support in response to customer feedback to ensure a seamless experience across print and digital platforms for core ELA products.✔Lead the ongoing resolution of errata in Wit & Wisdom, resolving 100+ Jira tickets and resulting in increased customer trust in Great Minds’ responsiveness to feedback. ✔Engage in ongoing cross-team collaboration to ensure any updates are clearly communicated. ✔Lead new content development projects through their total lifecycle, including visioning, scoping, development, and review, as well as contributing to go-to-market and sunsetting plans.✔Apply deep content expertise and knowledge of an established product to support sales and implementation success teams in customer-facing conversations.

✔Led corrections of print and digital files to support successful copyright renewal.✔Led corrections of slide decks aligned to edition updates, ensuring a cohesive customer experience.✔Developed alternative materials integral to the successful implementation of Wit & Wisdom in Louisiana.

▶Independently researched, wrote, and presented academic analysis of contemporary American literature, with a specialty in poetry and poetics, and religion and literature. Received an award for best dissertation chapter within the English department and a yearlong fellowship from the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Awarded over $3k in research grants and travel awards from Notre Dame, the Modern Language Association, and UC San Diego.▶Served as Managing Editor of Religion & Literature. Led and managed all daily operations of a globally recognized academic journal in the humanities, including hiring, training, and supervising 3 assistant managing editors and a team of 4 student interns. Overhauled the submissions process to successfully shorten average time-to-decision by 6+ weeks and reduced a publication lag of 6+ months.▶Designed and taught courses in literature, composition, and creative writing for 80+ undergraduate students, awarded for teaching excellence and receiving an average student feedback rating of 5/5. Integrated multiple modes of instruction, using a variety of digital learning platforms to foster community during periods of remote learning.▶Served as the President of the English Graduate Student Association, managing a budget of $2k to support educational and social programming for graduate students.

▶Designed and taught courses in literature in a degree-granting program at a medium-security men’s prison.▶Supervised weekly study hall, supporting 30+ incarcerated students across all subject areas.

✔Conducted research into peer-reviewed studies on foundational skills instruction for students in grades 3 and above to support grant funding decisions about improving reading for older learners.✔Created a database to organize 200+ academic articles and generated reports to synthesize research findings.✔Managed timelines and created workflow systems to ensure timely delivery of content to the client.

✔Facilitated high-quality professional learning to teachers and administrators nationwide.✔Managed a grade-band content development team to develop slide decks integral to successful implementation of Wit & Wisdom in Baltimore Public Schools.✔Trained content leads and reviewed slide decks to ensure consistency and cohesion across grade levels within a single project. ✔Authored Library to Go!, a decodable text.

Remote

✔Designed high-quality professional learning to support successful implementation of Wit & Wisdom nationwide.

✔Developed Wit & Wisdom for grade 8, including daily lesson plans, assessments, and student-facing materials.

✔Reviewed and provided high-level feedback on ELA curricular materials for grades 3-5, including slide decks and professional development materials, to ensure successful implementation of Expeditionary Learning in Detroit.

Burlington, Vermont Area

▶Tutored graduate students from a variety of disciplines in a one-on-one setting to support writing and fluency, primarily serving multilingual learners. ▶Ran a four-day dissertation camp for graduate students, providing on-demand support and feedback.

Burlington, Vermont

▶Designed and taught first-year composition and rhetoric for 120+ undergraduate students.

Remote

✔Developed open access Common Core aligned core ELA curriculum for grades 9-12, with lesson plans receiving Exemplar EQUIP Quality Review ranking from Achieve the Core.✔Designed professional development materials to support adoption and successful implementation nationwide.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, American Literature (United States)

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Poetry

Master'S Degree, English

Bachelor Of Arts, Literature And Liberal Arts

English Language And Literature, General

High School Diploma, General Studies