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Melia Franklin, Ed.D.

Dr. Melia Franklin has been in education for over 25 years. She has served in multiple capacities: teacher, state department director, university instructor, and district office administrator. In these various roles she has helped orchestrate large-scale assessments at the state-level and worked directly with teachers at the district-level to create classroom assessments that affect instruction. As a teacher, she worked with a variety of students (At-Risk, EL, Special Education-including CWC, and general population). Melia has frequently volunteered to work on state assessments in the roles of item writer and content and bias reviewer. She has also assisted with several alignment studies. As a state department director, Dr. Franklin coordinated English language arts and world languages curriculum and assessment development for Missouri, grades kindergarten–12th grade. As Executive Director of Secondary Education, she leads educators for grades 6–12 in all content areas through curriculum, assessment, instruction, and professional development for all student populations. As part of EdMetric, Dr. Franklin works with the team to write technical documentation, conduct assessment audits and alignment studies, and evaluate educational products.

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