Shaila Abdullah
Media Design Associate

Shaila Abdullah is a Media Design Associate with SEDL's Communications department. She works with program staff to design and develop new Web, print, and multimedia resources and consults with and mentors staff in the development of such products. She also ensures that layout and content uphold SEDL's corporate image and meet Web standards, provides art direction to internal and external artists, and designs the SEDL catalogs and annual reports. Ms. Abdullah has designed numerous SEDL Web sites, such as the Corporate site, resource sites for publications such as SEDL Letter, and sites for the National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools (EdPress Award 2004 Finalist), National Center for Quality Afterschool, National PIRC Coordination Center, and the SRA Imagine It! Today's Open Court and Everyday Mathematics® Randomized Controlled Trial.

Contact Information
You may contact Shaila Abdullah at 512-391-6500

or by using SEDL's contact form.

Experience
Prior to joining SEDL in February 2002, Ms. Abdullah worked as a lead designer for IBT Technologies, where she developed online courses and offered art direction to other artists. Since the start of her design career in 1993, she has had the opportunity, successfully in teams and as sole manager of projects, to explore various advertising, communications, and desktop publishing avenues involving creative, conceptual, and communications skills.

Education
Ms. Abdullah holds a bachelor's degree with a four-year diploma in graphic design. She also holds a diploma in freelance writing and has written articles and short stories for a variety of South Asian and U.S. media. Ms. Abdullah is the author of the novel Saffron Dreams, released in February 2009. She also penned a collection of short stories in 2005 titled Beyond the Cayenne Wall that received much acclaim.

SEDL Publications

• Connecting Kids to Mathematics and Science (2012)
• Professional Teaching and Learning Cycle, Lancaster School District (2011)
• A Practitioner's Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs (2009)
• A Resource Guide for Planning and Operating Afterschool Programs (3rd Edition) (2008)
• Measuring Implementation in Schools: Innovation Configurations (2006)
• Measuring Implementation in Schools: Levels of Use (2006)
• Measuring Implementation in Schools: The Stages of Concern Questionnaire (2006)
• What Do We Mean by Family and Community Connections with Schools?: An Interactive Research Brief (2005)
• What Structures Can Help Schools Create Effective Family and Community Involvement That Supports Learning Outside of School?: An Interactive Research Brief (2005)
• Online Professional Development Center: for Teachers of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) (2003)