Ashley Parker Mcham, Phd Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta

Oklahoma City

Setting vision and direction for all leadership development programs. Use data to drive decision- making about program design and implementing professional development opportunities. ✎ Operate from a compelling vision focused on maximizing our impact on students’ immediate academic success and life-long development. ✎ Manage, evaluate and supervise the operations and functions of the Teacher Leadership Development team consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the Teach For America and our district and community partners. ✎ Cultivate, hire and coach a strong team to take actions that result in significant change in classrooms. ✎ Establish and maintain diverse school district and community partnerships that drive towards a common goal. ★Achievements: • Central Oklahoma Teach For America teachers are outpacing our progress from last year at this same time by 10% in student achievement goals.• I retained 43% of my staff and in my second year and will retain 88% of my staff this year for a role with the highest turnover in our organization.• Retention for 2nd year teacher is 90% and 97% for 1st year teacher which exceeds our national organizational goals.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM ✎ Developed best practices by collaborating with instructional coaches and teachers and facilitated training workshops for coaches prior to the summer, teaching them how to coach teachers to implement the summer school curriculum. ✎ Built, developed, and lead instructional coaches and teachers towards exceptional outcomes for students, families, and staff that resulted in significant academic growth over the summer. ✎ Developed and defined summer data‐driven goals for all coaches teachers and managed a system to ensure each teacher’s success. ★Achievements: • The highest score of all of the School Directors in my summer institute with 71% on my CSI data (overall teacher satisfaction), that exceeded the regional average by 13% and our national average by 20%.• The highest score of all of the School Directors in my summer institute with 91% on my CALI data (overall connection to the organizational mission) that exceeded the regional average by 2% and the national average by 11%.• Overall satisfaction response rate of 90% that exceeded our regional average by 5% and the national average by 14%.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

✎ Prepared materials for submission to agencies and foundations that fund research such as the National Science Foundation. ✎ Assisted staff and clients in the design, execution and evaluation of research projects, including literature reviews, surveys, focus groups, data integration and analysis. ✎ Managed data collection projects by meeting paper and electronic mailing deadlines, entering data, transcribing tapes and handwritten notes; learned and used technology to do these tasks more efficiently. ✎ Submitted manuscripts for publication resulting in authorship on various papers.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

✎ Created and developed materials such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, and course websites. ✎ Served as an adjunct instructor for undergraduate education courses. ✎ Helped professors and teachers develop course plans. Prepared presentations for lectures and delivered lectures. ✎ Proctored exams, graded tests and homework, and recorded grades in an electronic grade book.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

★Literacy Through Photography (LTP) is a teaching philosophy and methodology that encourages children to explore their world as they photograph scenes from their own lives to use their images as catalysts for verbal and written expression. ✎ Helped students cultivate creativity, critical thinking, and personal expression by creating and decoding images through photography. ✎ Helped students improve analysis skills which resulted in increased fluency and reading comprehension. ✎ Promoted an expansive use of photography across different curricula and disciplines, building on students’ prior knowledge.★Achievements: • Created activities that prepared students to critically engage with diverse texts, resulting in more than 80% of students receiving a grade of a B or higher.• Increased course satisfaction averages above 95% for each semester

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Developed continuous job-embedded learning for educators’ day-to-day experiences and helped teachers understand through critical reflection with others who shared similar experiences. ✎ Developed a strong vision focused on student learning and developed a commitment to improve student learning. ✎ Helped teachers engage in ongoing collegial opportunities where they engaged in critical dialogue about teaching, and received frequent feedback on teaching practices. ✎ Promoted results-oriented thinking that focused on continuous improvement and student learning embedded in a framework of mutual accountability. ✎ Developed teacher leaders and shared decision making with teachers providing opportunities for them to serve as leaders to increase leadership capacity and build a belief in their school’s collective ability to affect student teaching.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Provided students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. ✎ Conducted assessments of students learning styles and used results to plan instructional activities. ✎ Planned and used appropriate instructional and learning strategies, that reflected the understanding of the learning style and needs of students. ✎ Developed and implemented lesson plans that fulfilled the requirements of the district and reflected accommodations for differences in students’ learning styles.

Bachelor'S Degree, Kinesiology And Exercise Science

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Curriculum And Instruction In Urban Education

Master'S Degree, Educational Leadership And Administration, General