Leveraging Open Educational Resources in the ELA Classroom

Monday, October 23, 2023
7:00 p.m. ET

COHORT LEADERS

Bill Bass currently serves as the Innovation Coordinator for Instructional Technology, Information, Library Media, and Federal Programs in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO where he leads the district library program, instructional technology, grants, and innovation. Bill is an award-winning educator, international speaker, and Past-President of ISTE Board of Directors. During his 20+ career in education, he has also held positions as a middle and high school English teacher, technology integrator, instructional coach, adjunct professor and graduate course designer for an edtech graduation program, and an educational consultant. He has written numerous articles, book chapters and has authored three books on education in the digital age.

Meredith Jacob is the Public Lead for Creative Commons USA. She manages the day-to-day operations of the organization and maintains the core legal guidance around Creative Commons licenses. Meredith is currently working with educators on a project to define best practices in fair use specific for open educational resources (OER). Additionally, Meredith serves as the Creative Commons USA Project Director the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University’s Washington College of Law, where her work includes research and advocacy on open access to federally funded research, flexible limitations and exceptions to copyright, and the public interest.

COHORT FELLOWS

Ashleigh A. Allen is a poet, writer, researcher, and educator in Tkaronto/Toronto. She has taught literature, writing, and creative writing in various classroom and community settings since 2008, first in New York City, and more recently, in Toronto. In her teaching, she seeks alternative ways of being together with others that center the lives, desires, and futures of the people, their communities, and the land. She is currently a doctoral candidate in curriculum and pedagogy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Jayna Ashlock is an academic instructional coach at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington. She has an EdD in educational leadership from Washington State University, is an ELA Washington State Fellow, and has worked with the Washington State Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction on projects related to the Science of Reading for Secondary Educators, integrating ELA with math and science, and an OER document integrating ELA standards with NGSS standards for K–5.

Maryann Hasso is an accomplished high school and college English teacher with more than 15 years of experience in teaching students from a broad array of educational backgrounds and skill levels. She’s skilled at teaching English learners and applying the strategies she has researched within the classroom. Her research interests include English learner instructional strategies and professional development for English learner teachers.

Jackie Hoermann-Elliott is an assistant professor of English and the director of first-year composition at Texas Woman’s University (TWU). Her teaching and research focus on the role of the body in the writing process, and her first book, Running, Thinking, Writing: Embodied Cognition in Composition, was published in 2021. Her interest in OER began after she received a large grant to create her second book, First-Year Composition, with a team of faculty and staff members from TWU and Tarrant County College.

Jeannette M. E. Lee-Parikh, PhD, is the chair of the English department and head of community reading at The Cambridge School of Weston as well as the assistant editor and a columnist for Intrepid Ed News. She is an ISTE Certified Teacher and OER advocate. Her teaching philosophy exists at the intersection of the science of learning and cultivating creative thinking, joy, curiosity, playfulness, and self-awareness in all learners.