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Ashley Norris

overview

  • Ashley Norris is the Birth-Kindergarten Instructor and ;Internship Coordinator. ; Prior to her work in educuator preperation, she was a NCPK teacher for a rural school in Eastern North Carolina. ;

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professional service activities

  • JMU's Early Childhood Coaching Initiative JMU is exploring an extension of their educator induction program into early childhood offering coaching to childcare providers who are nonlicensed and work in childcare programs. The initiative is in the early planning and development stages. At this time, I have contributed to building a coaching frameworkand training coaches. 2024
  • Chapter Review Book Review Sage Publishing: Ray, Assessing Young Children's Dev and Learning 2023
  • PBS NC 360 Virtual Tour 2023
  • JMU's VA New Teacher Support Program Develop operational processes and program policies in collaboration with the VANTSP's leadership team. This is a VDOE initiative and partnership with VSU. 2022
  • NC New Teacher Support Program Conuslting work with central office leadership team in the areas of developing a business prospectus, program quality and research/evaluation. Specifically, she will provide input into the development of a business prospectus that is being developed for a twofold purpose. The first purpose is to develop a set of tiered products/processes that will be used by the Stanford SCALE/ NC NTSP partnership to provide induction support for states and IHE's starting or expanding teacher induction programs. The second purpose is to develop a scale up model for NC NTSP as requested by the Governor's Commission on Sound Education. The model will use the 1000, 2000, 5000 and 10,000 levels as benchmarks. Another aspect of the work involves participating in a programmatic gap analysis related to the NC NTSP Coaching Framework. The final aspect is providing feedback to the lead PI in the areas of research as aligned with the above defined business prospectus and evaluation/research. 2022
  • JMU's Virginia Principal Support Program Develop operational processes and program policies in collaboration with the VAPSP's leadership team. This is a VDOE initiative and partnership with VSU. 2020 - 2021
  • Tar River Reading Council Guest Pressenter A guest presenter for a community organization that connects professional locally interested in literacy. ; My presentation was on writing children's literature. 2019
  • Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction Committee for ECU CS Contrribute to developing curriculum and assessment that is used in the ECU Community School and planning/providing PD that supports curriculum. 2018 - 2019
  • ECU Community School Professional Development Professional Development on implementing literacy centers in K-1 (November). 2018 - 2019
  • Liason for ECU Community School Demo Kindergarten Teacher To support the Demonstration Kindergarten teacher at the ECU Community School in offering professional development to other teachers through guided observations, ongoing professional leanring networks and any other supports needed from ECU. 2018 - 2019
  • ECU Community School Adminstration Liason (K-2) Meet with instructional coach and administration at ECU Community Schoool to discuss K-2 recruiment, instrucitonal practices, and growth of the school. 2017 - 2019
  • WNCT News Professional expert on selecting age appropriate toys for hte holidays. 2018
  • BK Higher Education Consortium Presentation ;
    Norris, A. L., & Berry, S. W. (2018, January). Supporting Teacher Canidates for Licensure Through the Use of the edTPA. Birth-Kindergarten Higher Education Consortium. Greensboro, NC. 2017
  • Pitt County NCPK Professional Development Harris, J., & Norris, A. L. (2017, August). Teacher Guided Play in PK to Prepare Children for Academic Success. Professional Development for Pitt County PK. Greenville, NC.
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    This session will describe the elements of teacher supported play in the preschool classroom. ; Teachers will be provided process and frameworks for planning, environment set up, and questioning strategies to increase student engagement. ; We will explore teacher role in guiding play to support 21st century and kindergarten readiness skills.
    I. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; What is play based instruction
    II. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Why Mature Play Matters
    III. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Facilitating Teacher Guided play in the classroom 2017