Steven Dillard

Leads yearlong professional development for a corps of nearly 50 AmeriCorps members across multiple Baton Rouge schools, ensuring alignment with district standards, site culture, and City Year’s Whole School Whole Child model.

Designs and facilitates bi-monthly Learning and Development Days, delivering targeted training and leadership development that enhance corps readiness and service quality.

Conducting rigorous reviews of K–2 instructional materials to determine alignment with college- and career-ready standards.

Utilizing evidence-based evaluation tools to assess the quality, coherence, and usability of early literacy curricula, producing clear, actionable feedback for instructional improvement.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams of educators in virtual professional learning

 Manages data collection, organization, and ongoing updates for the Maryland Economic Fund’s “Our Impact” fact sheets by tracking assistance metrics, aggregating district-level data into congressional summaries, and providing actionable analyses to program directors on outreach needs and geographic trends.
 Conducts data-driven research and community-level analysis to identify high-need neighbor

 Analyzing corps member engagement data—including attendance, asynchronous module completion, and training feedback—to identify trends and drive strategic improvements in program delivery and participant experience.
 Developing and delivering data-driven headlines and narratives that distill key insights into concise, actionable messages for content facilitators, coaches, and pod leads, enabling

 Achieved exceptional literacy gains, increasing the percentage of kindergarten students performing at or above the reading literacy benchmark from 20% at Beginning-of-Year to 88% by End-of-Year, with 63% exceeding grade-level expectations and benchmark.
 Spearheaded successful grant writing initiatives as Grant Lead, securing additional funding to support gardening programs and enhance technolo

 Developed assessment tasks that measure and promote language and cognitive skills, ensuring they are adaptive and child-centric.
 Established robust methodologies for validating the performance of educational evaluations and technologies.
 Assisted the Child Development Head in conducting research focusing on creating and refining AI-enhanced educational tasks and tools.

 Designed and created graphical user interface to actively engage and interact with adult learners for asynchronous professional development training
 Utilized instructional design models and methodologies to develop professional learning modules using tools such as Storyline 360, Canvas, Excel, and Blackboard.
 Synthesized multiple sources of adult learning content and theories to create modul

 Conducted formal research and written analyses on the disparity of women and minor businesses receiving an inequity amount of procurement bids
 Utilized qualitative research methods to identify and manage potential stakeholders relevant to business procurement bids for small, mid-size and large business companies
 Reported qualitative research findings and synthesized evaluations, opportuniti

 Developed and designed writing curricula, aligned with state and CCSS and tailored to engage a diverse student population for optimal learning outcomes
 Directed course instruction by implementing a variety of curricula, including Wit & Wisdom, Kipp: Wheatley, IRLA, Eureka Math, Amplify Science, and Handwriting Without Tears
 Facilitated and led weekly professional development sessions, proje

Coordinated budget, orders, and management of athletic gear throughout the season with the athletic director

Provided and demonstrated tactical aspects of the game

Maintained order, control, and effective discipline on the soccer field

Evaluated and assessed individual and team performance on the soccer field

Developed and organized an educational plan to improve the social-emotional developme

 Aligned lesson proposals from various school districts and networks with TEKS, their respective state standards, or Common Core grade-level standards through meticulous analyses
 Evaluated and scrutinized lesson proposals to ensure optimal opportunities for students to practice and attain mastery of instructed skills
 Conducted thorough research and advocated for the integration of rigorous a

Selected from over 50,000 applicants nationwide to join the national leadership development program focused on strategic outcomes for achieving educational equity

Created and executed data-driven lessons that were shaped by diversity, equity and inclusion practices while serving at a Title I public school

Instilled and embedded social-emotional learning during instruction to create both academ

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