Susan Pimentel

For over three decades, Susan has worked at the state and district levels with hundreds of teachers in each of the core academic disciplines to develop and implement standards, build standards-based curricula and fashion assessments to support teaching and learning. Before her work as lead writer of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy, Susan served as chief architect of the American Diploma Project Benchmarks designed to close the gap between high school demands and postsecondary expectations. In a related project, Susan led an effort to make the national assessments in reading and mathematics better measures of readiness for college and new economy jobs. In 2007, Susan was appointed to serve on the National Assessment Governing Board by Secretary Margaret Spellings.

Steering Committee, ELA Work Group, and District Engagement Committee