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Ashley McCall serves as a 3rd grade bilingual English/Language Arts teacher at César Chávez Multicultural Arts Center on the south west side of Chicago and serves as a teacher representative on the Chávez Local School Council. She incorporates social justice/civic engagement experiences throughout the year as evidenced by her students’ 2019 culminating activism unit project “Say it Loud/Dilo Fuerte” which seeks to rewrite students’ neighborhood narrative. Ashley works part time with The Academy Group and serves as a Learning Designer of the Justice curriculum for rising fourth graders. She also mentors resident teachers as a Clinical Instructor for The University of Chicago’s Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP). Ashley is a 2021 recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition to her classroom work, Ashley partners with teachers, families, and community members as a community organizer to address systemic education inequities and advance policies that improve the classroom experience of all students. As a Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellow from fall 2016 to summer 2017, Ashley worked with Illinois teachers to elevate teacher voice in the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), advocate for an equitable state funding formula (SB1947), and evaluate year one implementation of Senate Bill 1 (which eliminated zero tolerance policies in Illinois schools). Ashley was a lead author of the policy brief “From Zero to SB100: Teachers’ Views on Implementation of School Discipline Reform”, published March 2018. Ashley graduated from Amherst College in 2012 with a BA in Political Science and Spanish and received her MAT from Dominican University.