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ALLYSON MAXWELL

ALLYSON MAXWELL

Spanish Fort

Summary

To encourage and lead a faculty and staff to facilitate learning in and out of the classroom, reflect and grow in their practice, and make a positive impact on the lives of their students, their families, and their community.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Bay Minette Elementary
01.2023 - Current
  • Lead faculty in staff in relationship building, creating family and community partnerships, engaging and leading Professional Learning Communities through data and planning meetings, observing and providing feedback in co-teaching and coaching opportunities, and providing a safe and secure environment while educating and learning from students.

Instructional Coach

Baldwin County Schools, Belforest Elementary
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Building wide leadership in: Data Disaggregation, Data-driven decision making through creation of lesson plans and assessments, teaching and observations, planning and debriefing through Coaching Cycles, delivery of Professional Development in the areas of RtI, Data Disaggregation, Data meetings, College and Career Ready Standards, Comprehensive Literacy- Reading and Writing, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading Instruction, Comprehension Strategies, Lesson Planning and Design, Assessments with Oral Reading Fluency, Developmental Spelling Assessment, Math and Reading Screeners, and the Four Stages of the Various types of Assessments.

Assistant Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Belforest Elementary
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Support the building Principal in the following service duties: professional development, communication to faculty, staff and community, discipline and teacher leadership in grades PreK through 3rd grade, safety plans, drills, and helping to secure building and grounds, monitoring of student, teacher and school level assessment, discipline and attendance data, classroom walkthrough observations in PreK-6 and evaluations with post conferencing for PreK-1 and specialty area teachers, service schedule, counseling and instructional coach, bus discipline, RtI initiative and classroom instructional design and lesson planning.

Assistant Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Perdido School
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Support the building Principal in the following service duties: discipline and parent liaison, safety planning, drills, and helping to secure the building and grounds; classroom evaluation with Standards for Success; transportation and bus discipline; Special Education services through meetings and data disaggregation with staff members.

District Literacy Specialist

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • District wide Literacy Specialist overseeing 5 magnet schools, one Kindergarten Center and one alternative school in their efforts to hire teachers, educate and monitor literacy instructional strategies, lesson design for whole group and small group instruction, data disaggregation, professional learning communities.
  • Statewide trainer for RISE- State wide Science of Reading Initiative throughout the state of Arkansas.
  • Also facilitated the work, training and responsibilities of 14 instructional coaches throughout the district in curriculum and instructional strategies, data-disaggregation, research and curriculum design, coaching cycles and reflective practice through the Science of Reading initiatives throughout the state and the district.

District Career Tech Consultant

Baldwin County School District
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • Onsite School support of all CTE programs, courses and teachers.
  • Professional Development for all CTE teachers.
  • College and Career Ready Standards alignment, implementation, and lesson design.
  • Marketing and public relations with local area Chamber of Commerce and Business and Industry partnerships.
  • Data disaggregation, training and coaching of best practices amongst all CTE teachers in seven high schools, nine middle schools, and two technology centers.

District Itinerant Instructional Coach

Baldwin County School District
01.2014 - 01.2017
  • District-wide support in data disaggregation, data-driven decision making through creation of lesson plans and assessments, teaching and observations, planning and debriefing through Coaching Cycles.
  • Delivery of Professional Development in the areas of RtI, Data Disaggregation, Data meetings, College and Career Ready Standards, Comprehensive Literacy- Reading and Writing, Small Group Instruction, Guided Reading Instruction, Comprehension Strategies, Lesson Planning and Design, Assessments with Oral Reading Fluency, Developmental Spelling Assessment, Math and Reading Screeners, and the Four Stages of the Various types of Assessments.

Literacy Specialist

Scholastic, Inc.
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Nationwide Support in the following: delivery of literacy based professional learning to district partners across the state, region, and nation in reading and writing instruction, on-site support to classroom teachers in building content knowledge and understanding their role in the implementation process, providing feedback as part of the coaching cycle to pinpoint areas of progress as well as development opportunities.

Academic Facilitator

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Provider of curricular support, professional development, data disaggregation, Professional Learning Communities, formative and summative assessment, observation and evaluation of instructional practice.
  • School improvement team and ACSIP.
  • CWT (Classroom Walkthrough) trainer and provider.

District School Improvement Specialist

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • District accountability for all schools in school improvement status.
  • Arkansas Department of Education liaison between state and school.
  • Provider of job-embedded professional development to multiple schools within the district to facilitate change and Root Cause Analysis at a district level, teacher and administrator training and support.

K-12 Literacy Specialist

NEA Education Cooperative
01.2007 - 01.2012
  • Professional Development and school support in literacy, leadership, academic coaching, assisting struggling adolescent readers, data disaggregation and data teams, Root Cause Analysis and Professional Learning Communities, curriculum development and alignment, formative and summative assessment, evaluation and observation of staff, school improvement team and ACSIP, and comprehension strategies in the content areas.
  • Certificates for the state of Arkansas as a Praxis III Assessor and Classroom Walkthrough (CWT) Trainer.
  • Professional Development creator for the state of Arkansas in Comprehensive Literacy for Adolescent Student Success (CLASS).
  • Elected to serve on an Arkansas Core Team for creation, production and distribution of Arkansas Professional Development (CLASS) - Team member, 2 years.

Classroom Teacher, grades 1 and 3

Greene County Technical School District
01.1999 - 01.2007

Classroom Teacher, grades 4, 5 and Kindergarten

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.1999 - 01.2007
  • ELL (Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas) professional development based on a comprehensive literacy model providing children with the knowledge and skills which are developmentally appropriate to assist students in becoming emergent readers as early as Kindergarten through the second grade.
  • ELF (Effective Literacy) professional development that aided in organizing the classroom with literacy centers, guided reading groups in reading workshop and writing workshop model. This comprehensive literacy model was a continuum of the ELLA training for grades 3-6.
  • Reading First Literacy Coaching cohort through the Arkansas State Department in planning and studying emergent literacy from oral language to comprehension and vocabulary; emphasis in phonics and word study curriculum and instruction.
  • Graduate of the Smart Step Literacy Lab Classroom Project at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, from 2005-2007; Theta Group.

Education

B.S.E. - Elementary Education Major, Science Emphasis

Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
01.1999

Instructional Leadership - undefined

University of West Alabama
Livingston, Alabama
01.2018

M.Ed. - Masters in Reading

Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas
01.2007

Skills

  • Data Disaggregation
  • School culture
  • School safety and security
  • Curriculum Development
  • Instructional Design
  • Leadership and Mentoring

Timeline

Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Bay Minette Elementary
01.2023 - Current

Instructional Coach

Baldwin County Schools, Belforest Elementary
01.2020 - 01.2023

Assistant Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Belforest Elementary
01.2020 - 01.2023

Assistant Principal

Baldwin County Schools, Perdido School
01.2020 - 01.2023

District Literacy Specialist

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2018 - 01.2020

Literacy Specialist

Scholastic, Inc.
01.2015 - 01.2016

District Career Tech Consultant

Baldwin County School District
01.2014 - 01.2017

District Itinerant Instructional Coach

Baldwin County School District
01.2014 - 01.2017

Academic Facilitator

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2012 - 01.2013

District School Improvement Specialist

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.2012 - 01.2013

K-12 Literacy Specialist

NEA Education Cooperative
01.2007 - 01.2012

Classroom Teacher, grades 1 and 3

Greene County Technical School District
01.1999 - 01.2007

Classroom Teacher, grades 4, 5 and Kindergarten

Jonesboro Public Schools
01.1999 - 01.2007

Instructional Leadership - undefined

University of West Alabama

M.Ed. - Masters in Reading

Harding University

B.S.E. - Elementary Education Major, Science Emphasis

Arkansas State University

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