Deanna Ackerman

About Deanna Ackerman

Teaching has always been a huge part of my family. I grew up helping my Mom in the school where she taught, and I watched as she made a significant impact on the lives around her. This inspired me to pursue education and make an impact on teachers and students.I quickly moved into leadership positions focused on professional learning and coaching employees to improve outcomes. I found the impact I had as a people leader was vast and designing cutting-edge professional development, while enhancing teacher performance, greatly impacted test scores. I support organizations in developing meaningful performance management and cross functional operational systems. I am passionate about leading individual growth opportunities to improve business outcomes.Career Highlights: Designed and implemented performance management systems in order to uphold organizational values to ensure equitable access to opportunities and facilitate career progression and succession plans of top performers. Achieved 100% effectiveness in professional development and consistent regional growth of student assessment scores by developing and facilitating professional development for teachers across multiple states to drive outcomes. Increased staff perception surveys by 20%, grade 5 ela proficiency by 18% and grade 5 math proficiency by 10% by designing intellectual prep systems and staff training while monitoring progress to provide support. Achieved 25% increase in national percentile with 94% of students improving ACT scores by designing and implementing a testing strategy created using data-informed decisions while gaining the engagement of entire school staff team. Achieved 100% contract renewal or expansion leading to the growth of a single contract in its first year by over 400% in monetary value. Achieved the second highest growth in ELA achievement in the District of Columbia for a network of schools, leading to 70% increase in state test scores in a single year across grades K-8 by developing and facilitating professional development and coaching plans for teachers and leaders, while also designing ELA curriculum to drive outcomes.Core Competencies include:Program / Project Management | Performance Management & Evaluation | Change Management | Learning & Development | Strategic Planning | Data-Driven Decisions | Coaching & Training | Operational Improvements | Stakeholder Development | Best Contact:A••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Strategic Operations Lead

   LinkIt!

   Mar 2026 — Present

Education

• Lehigh University

  B.A., Earth & Environmental Sciences and Political Science

  2006 — 2010

• University of Pennsylvania

  Master of Education (M.Ed.), Secondary Science

  2012 — 2014

• Lehigh University

  M.A., Environmental Policy Design

  2010 — 2011