Cecilia Roe, M.S.

Serves in senior positions, providing TA to clients within the education market group.  Provides content expertise and thought partnership for literacy, social studies, and assessment support to State and Federal programs.  Serves as the task lead for the National Assessment Governing Board.  Serves as a literacy subject matter expert for the STudent Achievement in Reading (STAR) project.

o Director of the Maryland Title IIA Federal Grants and Sub-Grants o Director of the Maryland Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) Federal Grant and Sub-Grants o Director of Maryland’s English Language Arts State Standards, Curriculum, and Assessments o Project Manager of three (3) instructional projects of the Federal State Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Grant Project Manager for two of Maryland’s Race-to-the-Top Projects, including Maryland’s largest RTTT Grant—to train Maryland educators on the College and Career Readiness Standards, including knowledge, implementation, best practices, and instructional shifts. o Grant, budget, and project maintenance. o Plan and deliver state-wide professional learning related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment, which includes Maryland’s College- and Career-Ready Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, C3 Social Studies Frameworks, PARCC assessments, and Maryland High School Assessments o Plan, coordinate, and deliver the state implementation of the Maryland Bridge Plan for Academic Validation. This is a project-based alternate path for students to pass the Maryland High School Assessments. o Liaison between the Offices of Curriculum and Assessment. o National Presenter on Maryland’s Third Wave of Reform o Member of the PARCC Educator Leader Cadre

Adjunct instructor for Graduate Programs in the Education Division

o Responsible for the curriculum and assessment design and implementation of English/language arts for all middle and high schools in Baltimore County. o Planned, coordinated, wrote, and oversaw administration of district assessments such as Benchmark and Short Cycles o Coordinated, planned, developed, and implemented county-wide professional development opportunities, such as New Teacher Induction/Orientation under COMAR, as well as professional development funded under Title IIA grant initiatives. Professional development included, state/county assessments, RTI programs, curricular initiatives, best practices, county professional development days, and leadership training for department chairs. o Coordinated, planned, developed, and monitored the budgets and grants within the domain of RELA. o Created and delivered professional development sessions at College Board Regional Forums o Worked closely with the administrations of BCPS schools on advancing teacher instructional growth. o Planned professional development in the form of college cohorts for teachers in Baltimore County Public Schools o Worked in collaboration with Community College of Baltimore County on aligning curriculum and professional development. o Coordinated, planned, developed, and implemented curriculum for BCPS secondary Reading English Language Arts (RELA). o Monitored the fidelity of the implementation of the written, taught, and assessed RELA curriculum o Planned, coordinated, and managed English High School Bridge Plans. o Collaborated with other content offices to ensure a vertical and horizontal alignment of curriculum implementation and best practices in teaching. o Attended national conferences on teaching, best practices, curriculum, and instruction. o Participated in interviews of prospective teachers and department chairs for secondary English Language Arts. o Worked with College Board to implement AVID, AP, SAT and PSAT and SpringBoard in grades 8 & 9