Senior Adviser, English Language Arts & Literacy   

Bonnie Hain began work as a Senior Adviser, English Language Arts & Literacy with Achieve in June, 2011. Bonnie's primary work responsibilities focus on assessment development and design for the PARCC assessments in English Language Arts and Literacy. Prior to her arrival at Achieve, Bonnie worked for ten years with the Frederick County Public Schools in Frederick, Maryland in a variety of positions, including Assistant Principal for an elementary school, English Curriculum Specialist for grades 6-12, and Director of Curriculum and Professional Development. Bonnie held teaching and building-level administrative positions in English and Reading in middle schools in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Bonnie served as the English Specialist, K-16 for the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) for three years where she facilitated the development of several performance-based assessments (MSPAP, Maryland Writing Test), high school English core learning standards, and instructional frameworks and exemplars for performance-based instruction. In this position, she also worked closely with four year post-secondary institutions to develop standards for teaching English to guide teacher-education programming and with career education specialists to develop instructional models to increase student career readiness skills in literacy for students exiting high school and community college career preparation programs.

Before moving to MSDE, Bonnie held several university teaching positions in English and English Education where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in 18th century literature, Rhetoric and Composition, and Literary Theory, including positions at Bowie State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, and the University of San Diego.

Bonnie received her bachelor's in English/Spanish education from the State University of New York at Albany, her master's in English from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York from SUNY at Stony Brook.

Phone: (202) 745-2308