Ashley McCall is a Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. She is a 3rd grade bilingual English Language Arts teacher at César Chávez Multicultural Arts Center in Chicago, IL. Ashley was a 2012 Teach For America corps member and taught 3rd grade general education at LEARN South Chicago and 2nd 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 BA in Political Science and Spanish and received her MAT from Dominican University.
