Ashley McCall

Ashley McCall is a third-grade bilingual teacher at César Chávez Elementary Multicultural Academic Center in Chicago and a Teach Plus Illinois State Policy Fellow. Ashley was a 2012 Teach For America corps member and taught third-grade general education at LEARN South Chicago and second-grade bilingual education at Peabody Elementary School. She served on LEARN Charter Network's Social Studies C3 Framework Design Team to develop and align benchmarks for a new standards-based curriculum as well as develop K-8 plans and identify instructional materials for teachers. As a community organizer with Illinois for Educational Equity (ILEE), Ashley partners with teachers, families, and community leaders to advance for a more equitable education system for students. She graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in political science and spanish and received her M.A.T. from Dominican University.

Posts By Ashley McCall

COVID-19

Not-Normal Times Call for Not-Normal Grades

At 8:21 pm on Thursday, January 20th, my principal called me to confirm another positive COVID case in my homeroom. This marked our fourth transition to remote/hybrid instruction this year. This...

COVID-19

What If We Radically Reimagined the New School Year?

Monday night I sat on my back patio staring up into a rare, starry Chicago night. I squinted and made out each point of The Big Dipper and then turned to see what I decided was Mars, twinkling in the...

Politics

Here's What I Told My Students After 'Karen From Mike Bloomberg's Campaign' Texted Me

Last week, I received a text from “Karen from Mike Bloomberg’s campaign.” She wrote that “with so much at stake, Americans deserve a Democratic candidate who can beat Donald Trump” and asked if I...

student achievement

Criminalizing Students Isn’t Helping Anyone, Here's How Restorative Justice Can Help

During my second year in the classroom, I had a student I’ll call Dylan. He was aggressive, disinterested and disrespectful. He was also malnourished, homeless and hated by his mother. Yet our school...

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