Current Role: Chief Instructional Officer for the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools

Fellowship Role: Chief Instructional Officer for the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools

Rodolfo (Rudy) Elizondo is the Chief Instructional Officer for the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools serving the Greater Los Angeles Area.

In this role, he provides ongoing coaching and development to school teams and their respective leaders, supporting them in their creation and implementation of strategic instructional and operations plans, in addition to being the direct supervisor to principals. Prior to his role as an IS, he was the founder and Principal of the Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management (UASEM), an innovative new Career and Technical Education high school located in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Manhattan, NY. Rudy applied his skills from working as an instructional lead and data coach build teachers’ capacity to develop rigorous curriculum and in making adjustments in their instruction to meet the needs of their students, to simultaneously develop an innovative new program that secured internships for all seniors and juniors at his school and provide a rigorous academic program which resulted in significant gains to scholar literacy levels, moving 80% of scholars coming in at a 4th grade reading level as measured by the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) to at our above high school levels by the time they graduated. In addition, his school consistently outperformed most of the district and city schools on the Regents State Exam for Math, ELA, Science, Global History, and US History. Rodolfo came to teaching in New York’s South Bronx at The Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice under the leadership of Meisha Ross Porter, NYC’s current Chancellor, through the fellowship organization Math for America (MfA) where he engaged in 5 years of structured professional development and professional learning teams with hundreds of teachers in schools all across New York City. At the conclusion of his 5th year residence with MfA he was accepted as a Master Teacher in the organization. While teaching he was accepted into the Leaders in Education Apprenticeship Program (LEAP).

Rodolfo holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters of Art in Teaching from Bard College, and a School Building Leadership License from Baruch College.