Michael L. Ford678.577.4113, mikefordwrites@gmail.com

Career ExperienceChildCare Education Institute (www.cceionline.edu) Director of Course Development, 11/09–present. Duluth, GA. (Report to CEO.)

Plan, write, and edit professional development coursework for child care and preK–8 professionals. Maintain a library of hundreds of courses and dozens of certificate programs. Collaborate with representatives from state agencies, child care centers, and professional

organizations to meet the training needs of early care professionals throughout the U.S. Manage freelance writers, including noteworthy authors and SMEs. Write monthly newsletter with over 50K subscribers; edit marketing emails

Freelance Instructional Design & Curriculum Development, 1/09–present. Clients: Great Minds (formerly Common Core). Lead writer for teacher training modules (2014) The Core Knowledge Foundation: Write fiction and nonfiction read-alouds, leveled readers, and

teacher materials for Core Knowledge Reading Program (2008-14) ChildCare Education Institute. Write/edit coursework (7/09-11/09, prior to accepting full-time work) Georgia Charter Schools Association: Instructional design for Charter Leadership Program (2009-10) Passport Career, LLC: Edit online content (2009)

Perriello for CongressField Director, 4/08–12/08. Headquarters in Charlottesville, VA. Resulted in narrow victory for Perriello (.2%) in a race against a heavily favored incumbent. (Report to candidate.)

Collaborate with candidate and other senior staff on overall strategy and message. Manage ten field organizers and two regional directors; establish staff goals and monitor progress to

meet fundraising, recruitment, and voter outreach objectives (daily, weekly, and monthly). Oversee recruitment, training, and management of approximately 250 volunteers at eight field offices

across Virginia’s 5th Congressional District. Manage fundraisers, house parties, and visibility at public events. Establish and maintain contacts with elected officials, business leaders, and civic groups throughout

district. Maintain working relationships with other campaigns and county political committees.

Core Knowledge Foundation (www.coreknowledge.org)Editorial Director, Listening & Learning, 9/07–4/08. Charlottesville, VA. The Listening & Learning Strand represents half of Core Knowledge Reading Program, a K–3 basal program currently under development. (Report to President.)

Direct all aspects of development to ensure compliance with the mission, production schedules, budget, and educational publishing standards. See attached writing and editing credits.

Provide overall editorial and creative direction for all Listening & Learning products. Supervise three staff editors, three graphic designers, seven freelance writers, and two interns. Fulfill or manage administrative and financial responsibilities of Managing Editor (see below).

Core Knowledge FoundationManaging Editor, Educational Materials Department, 2/05–9/07. Charlottesville, VA. (Report to President.)

Design, write, and edit educational materials, including textbooks and ancillary materials. See attached writing and editing credits.

Create yearly department budget and conduct quarterly reviews. Develop sales projections and manage inventory of over 200 products.

Develop and execute marketing plan. Manage development of catalog, direct mail, and email marketing.

Manage in-house and freelance editors, writers, graphic designers, and interns. Also, maintain communications with and establish goals for independent sales reps.

Negotiate and collaborate with printers and vendors through all phases of publication and distribution. Write and/or edit internal communications including quarterly electronic newsletters, press releases,

annual report, fundraising/annual fund letters. Edit grant proposals for colleagues. Develop and maintain internal style guide. Obtain copyright permissions and maintain permissions database; review and grant permissions

requests from clients; manage corrections and reprints for dozens of existing publications.

SABIS® Network (www.sabis.net)Senior Writer and Instructional Designer, 7/99–2/05. NYC & Atlanta. Work independently to recommend, research, design, write, and edit comprehensive historical novels, study guides, anthologies, and lesson plans for use in gr. 3–11 Social Studies and Language Arts classrooms. Edited two junior writers. See attached writing and editing credits.

SCORE! Prep (subsidiary of KAPLAN Educational Services)Regional Center Director, 4/98–7/99. New York, NY. (Report to National Director.)Establish Manhattan office for SAT tutoring service. Manage, recruit, train roughly 75 SAT/ACT private, in-home tutors to serve Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and Midtown markets. Collaborate with other regional directors to meet marketing and sales goals.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)Community Organizer, 7/97–3/98. Brooklyn, NY.Work with parents and teachers to build and maintain a strong community organization with mission of opening a charter public elementary school. Responsible for leadership development, fundraising, and teacher recruitment.

EducationBrown UniversityB.A. English Literature, 1997Minor concentrations in Education and Creative WritingBank Street College of Education, NY, NY. Completed full semester of graduate-level elementary Ed courses as part of undergraduate studies through the Urban Education Semester program.

Teaching ExperienceSummer Enrichment Program (Sponsored by the University of Virginia), course instructor, “Words on the Brain,” summer 2003. Three two-week sessions, ages 12–14. Designed and implemented curriculum for writing workshop.WeeScribes™, Founder and Program Director, 3/01–12/03. Charlottesville, VA. Children’s writing workshop includes a summer program, in-school, and after-school programs.Pilgrim High School, Student Teacher, 9/96-1/97. Warwick, RI. Designed and implemented curriculum for four 9th–11th grade English classes.IS218, Teaching intern, grades 6-7, 8/95–12/96. Washington Heights, NY. Urban Education Semester through Bank Street College.

Other Experience and SkillsTAP TAP Folk Art, Crafts and Collectibles. Founder and operator of retail gallery. Scottsville, VA. 9/02-1/05. Specializing in fair-trade Haitian art; also antiques, local art, gems/crystals, etc. Four buying trips to Haiti per year to buy directly from artists.

Skills: Articulate E-Learning Software; Adobe InDesign and Captivate; MS Office; advanced research and editorial skills; project management; AP and Chicago Style Guides.

Other Jobs: Bike messenger; Head Coach, Boys Lacrosse, Moses Brown Middle School, 1994–97; roofing; line cook; catering manager; house painting; form-concrete foundations.

Service, Awards, InterestsR.N. Ford Foundation Orphanage & School at Grison Garde, Haiti (http://www.fordhaitianorphanage.org/). Secretary, Cofounder of privately funded, secular orphanage and school. Founded in early 2002, designed and built by Haitians, the RNF Orphanage provides a home to 52 children in northern Haiti, plus free school and daytime meals for over 800 local children and steady jobs for “mamas,” teachers, administrators, and construction workers. Vocational school opened in 2008 and expanded in 2014-15 with help from Building Goodness Foundation. 2015 operating budget is roughly $500,000; 100% of every dollar donated goes directly to Haiti and Haitians with no administrative expenses or paid staff in the U.S. Also, the project currently funds a small community for elderly men and women who would otherwise be homeless; we have dug over two dozen wells, providing clean water and immeasurable health benefits in rural villages; we aslo provide substantial financial support to a midwife program, neighboring health clinic, and microloan program for budding entrepreneurs. Eighty-five percent of donations are from private individuals.

Other Community Service: The Haiti Medical Mission (Providence United Methodist Church of Charlotte); Big Brother/Big Sister of RI; Children’s Museum of R.I.; Jefferson Area Food Bank; Adult ESL volunteer teacher; Habitat for Humanity; U10 and U8 girls soccer coach, Alpharetta, GA (fall & spring, 2009-2013).

President’s Reception for Outstanding Achievement in Community Service, Brown University, 1997. Community Service Award, St. Anne’s-Belfield School, 1993.

Interests, etc. Writing, history, hiking/backpacking, rock hunting, kayaking, biking, guitar, numismatics, folk art, storytelling, woodworking, geology, poetry, gardening, parenting.

Writing and Editorial Credits Currently responsible for development of all CCEI (www.cceionline.edu) coursework and certificate programs,

publishing minimum 36 hours of new coursework per year and maintaining a huge professional development library. I have written about half the courses here and revised all the rest.

Module 5.4 (The Civil War) for the Wheatley Portfolio (by Great Minds, in association with KIPP Schools), a comprehensive language arts curriculum package for grade 5 classrooms implementing the Common Core State Standards, as well as several Text Studies for grade 5-9 classrooms.

Listening & Learning Strand. This strand of the Core Knowledge Reading Program focuses on teaching the background knowledge necessary to become a fluent reader. Author credit for the following anthologies between 2008–14: Five Senses; Taking Care of the Earth; Astronomy; History of the Earth (geology); Christopher Columbus; Kings & Queens; Farms and Farm Animals; Frontier Explorers; Seasons and Weather; The Civil War; Oceans; Animal Classification; Ancient Rome; American Indians.

Skills Strand. The other strand of the Core Knowledge Reading Program focuses on decoding. I have written the following decodable readers for grade 2: South America; Jobs; Great Stories (adaptations of classic tales); The Oceans; Ecology

Grace Abounding: The Core Knowledge Anthology of African-American Literature, Art, and Music. 932 pages. (Senior Writer/Managing Editor, CKF, 2006). Reporting to Editorial Director, I oversaw or was directly responsible for all phases of writing, editing, layout, and design; managed team of and freelance illustrators, editors, writers, and assistants. Wrote 75% of the original content. See www.grace-abounding.org.

Grace Abounding Teacher Kits. Over 600 pages of ancillary materials for use with Grace Abounding; available as downloadable PDFs on the Core Knowledge website.

Little Women (Core Classics Plus® Study Edition, Managing/Senior Editor, CKF, 2007) A Joyful Noise: The Core Knowledge American Songbook. 438 pages. (Managing Editor, CKF, 2006) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Core Classics Plus® Study Edition, Senior Editor, CKF, 2005)

Historical Novels and Other Materials Written for SABIS Educational Systems Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (2 Editions; grades 2 and 6) Sojourner Truth (gr.4) A Red Turban’s Tale: The Story of the First Ming Emperor (gr.6) WWII Series (gr.11)

The Tuskegee Airmen Purple Heart Battalion Bloody Tarawa

Barbarossa (gr.8) Hammurabi (gr.9) 13 Short Stories about the American Revolution (gr.5) Folktale Adaptations (gr.4–6)

The Jack Stories of Appalachia Manuel’s Milpa (Bolivia)

Compiled and edited SABIS Language Arts Anthologies, grades 2, 3, 5, and 6; wrote/edited supplementary materials and lesson plans in accordance with Massachusetts State Curriculum Framework.

Wrote hundreds of lesson, unit plans, and assessments for use in K–10 classrooms.

Other Writing CreditsAlbemarle Kids Magazine, writer of the “Bumble” series of children’s stories from 2001–2003The Marshmallow Story, Editor and self-publisher of my grandfather’s memoirs (800 copies sold)The Washington Post, October, 2007, Letter the Editor re: sugarcane ethanol production in HaitiAtlanta Journal Constitution, October, 2010, Letter to the Editor re: rotten politicsA Pediatrician’s Guide to Haitian Medicine. Editor and designer. This text is used by visiting medical missionaries in several clinics in Haiti.