Alan Rowe serves as Executive Director of Learning Services with the College Community Schools, a K-12 school district, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Since 1996 he has also served as CEO of New Measure, Inc. an educational consulting group and school software/web design company, creating assessment tools and e-commerce applications for schools.

He has worked with school districts, charter schools, intermediate agencies, colleges/universities and state departments across the United States, Canada, and Australia on a wide array of comprehensive school improvement initiatives. He is a practitioner immersed into the daily realities of schools, classrooms, and students. Alan possesses a unique understanding of systemic change, job embedded professional development, performance-based assessment, accountability issues, standards-based classrooms, and most of all, leadership and change.

A former language arts and social studies teacher and coach, Alan has served as a school administrator for the past thirty years. He has been selected as Iowa’s Principal of the Year, Iowa’s Central Office Administrator of the Year, and Eastern Iowa’s Visionary Youth Leader.

He has served at the national level of the American Lung Association for the past eight years as a Board member, Council member, Learning Task Force chairperson, Program and Budget Committee chairperson, and member of the Technology Task Force. He has also served as President of ALA-Iowa and serves on the ALA-Illinois/Iowa Board.