Senior Associate, English Language Arts & Literacy

As, the Senior Program Associate for ELA/Literacy, Stephanie Straw helps coordinate and support the day-to-day activities of the design and development of PARCC English Language Arts and Literacy assessments and associated tools.

Before joining Achieve, Stephanie worked as a teacher specialist for a local school district where she wrote language arts curriculum, provided professional development to administrators, reading specialists and teachers, designed local assessments and worked on school intervention teams to help schools improve their academic programs. She also represented her county at state meetings and played an intergral role in training and supporting her school system's transition to the Common Core State Standards. Prior to this position, Stephanie worked as an elementary reading specialist. During this time, she served too as a school testing coordinator and taught courses for the Maryland State Department of Education. Earlier in her career, Stephanie taught elementary school, first through fifth grades and middle school language arts, grades seven and eight.

Stephanie received her BA in Elementary/Middle School Education from Frostburg State University and her MA in Instructional Leadership from Argosy University.