Elisa Giaccaglia

Elisa Giaccaglia

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Senior Mathematics Curriculum and Assessment Specialist
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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  • Imagine Learning
    Learning Experience Designer
    Imagine Learning
    Mar 2026 - Current (8 months)
  • Imagine Learning
    Senior Math Curriculum Specialist
    Imagine Learning
    Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)
  • Imagine Learning
    Learning Architect (Math)
    Imagine Learning
    Aug 2023 - Mar 2024 (8 months)
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    Middle School Math Teacher, Academic Chair, & Curriculum Coach
    School of Arts and Sciences at the Center
    Aug 2023 - Dec 2023 (5 months)
    Grades 6-8 math teacher, academic chair, and curriculum coach.

    Grade 6-8 math lead teacher

    School Academic Chair:
    Oversees curriculum development and ensures alignment with educational standards.
    Facilitates a positive learning environment and fosters academic excellence.
    Collaborates with faculty to enhance teaching methodologies and instructional materials.
    Plays a key role in faculty development by providing guidance and support to educators.

    Curriculum Coach:
    Focuses on refining teaching practices to improve instructional delivery.
    Works closely with teachers to implement and enhance curriculum.
    Offers targeted professional development opportunities for educators.
  • BrainPOP
    Senior Math Assessment Designer
    BrainPOP
    Mar 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 4 months)
    Design, develop, and iterate formative and summative assessments that drive BrainPOP products to build mastery in STEM and cultivate deeper learning for ALL students.
    Ensure that the BrainPOP assessments meet rigorous standards of accessibility, validity, reliability, and effectiveness to drive STEM knowledge and skills development.
    Work closely with learning designers, learning scientists, efficacy researchers, and engineers to ensure that students are working toward achieving learning objectives.
    Work with product managers, project managers, product designers, and user experience researchers to help architect, plan, and prioritize improvements and iterations to help manage stakeholder expectations and feedback.
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  • TailorED
    Assessment Designer, Mathematics
    TailorED
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 (2 months)
    Designed and created middle school formative assessment material. In charge of designing evidence statements documentation and blueprints, aligning content to CCSS, and creating items for the item pool.
  • Twig Education
    Access and Equity Instructional Manager (Mathematics)
    Twig Education
    Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 3 months)
    Developed and maintained source documents related to the product line’s support of EL learners and implementation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Stayed abreast of best instructional practices related to culturally-sustaining mathematics instruction and EL learners in content areas. Served as the subject matter expert related to supporting culturally-sustaining mathematics instruction and EL students in content areas. Participated in content reviews to ensure the integrity and quality of the EL support and culturally-sustaining mathematics instruction, the implementation of UDL, the presence of appropriate scaffolds, the need to avoid deficit thinking and phrasing, and the treatment of multilingual skills as an asset. Analyzed state
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    Assessment Specialist II, Mathematics
    Educational Testing Service ets
    Jun 2013 - Sep 2020 (7 years 4 months)
    Supervised development and implementation of several mathematics tests including SAT, AP, GACE, TExES, Praxis, PARCC, PISA, and Winsight. Identified, evaluated, and approved psychometric properties of test questions. Made recommendations to address problems with scoring. Reviewed and revised items to ensure consistency and adherence to educational standards. Provided feedback from internal and external partners and staff. Established program-specific preparation materials. Worked in partnership with teachers and educational experts. Obtained sign-off from relevant professionals for statistical parameters of test forms. Consistently met business objectives while working remotely.
    • Project Lead for the most common certification test for
  • S
    Math teacher
    SchoolPlus
    Sep 2009 - Jun 2013 (3 years 10 months)
    Instructed Enrichment Program students in pre-K to 5th grade.
    • Owned curriculum and content development for classwork and homework.
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  • Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Coursework for Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Mathematics Education
    Università degli Studi di Palermo
    Sep 2011 - Jun 2013 (1 year 10 months)
    The aim of my research was investigating three kinds of processes — exploratory, argumentative, and definition-building, all of which are involved in problem solving and theorem generation — in an early stage of schooling. In preparing and realizing the experimental part, for what concerns the methodological approach, I referred to Brousseau’s Theory of Didactical Situations. Vygotsky’s theory concerning scientific concepts in early age was also taken into consideration along with the theories of figural concepts, cognitive unit and structural continuity, fields of experience, mathematical discussion, PGC’s, and the role of language in exploring, conjecturing and validating.
  • Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
    Master of Science (M.S, Mathematics
    Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2007 (3 years 1 month)
    Thesis: "La didattica della dimostrazione" (The didactics of proof)
    Description:
    Definition of concepts, obstacles and errors; brief introduction to the history of proof, from
    Greeks to the axiomatization of the XX century passing through the Enlightenment period,
    underlining the two main fractures in the genesis of the concept; what is intuition; what
    means proving; an analysis of the several approaches to proof among researchers and their
    epistemology; a comparison between argumentation, explanation and proof; registers and
    language.
  • Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
    Bachelor of Science (B.S, Mathematics
    Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
    Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 (3 years 1 month)
    Thesis: "La prospettiva con Cabri-Géomètre" (Perspective with Cabri-Géomètre)
    Description:
    Historical genesis of perspective, from Euclid’s Optics to the development of projective geometry through the contribution of Renaissance painters, using the didactic software Cabri- Géomètre. Study of the perspective representation, study and classification of homologies, application to the “lamp post shadow problem” and study of the conic sections as homological images of the circumference, the inverse problem (get the geometrical situation from the perspective representation), figural concepts. A concrete example: how to gain the point of view from which a photography was taken using the photography, a map of the place, Chasles’ theorem,