Dr. Ashley Cross

Description

Ashley comes to ATLIS as a former Director of Technology, a district-level Instructional Technology Specialist, classroom teacher, and an ECATD alumna. Ashley has worked with the TN Department of Education, served on national advisory boards for organizations such as Scholastic, collaborated internationally with groups ranging from the Global Ed Conference to Singapore’s Ministry of Education, and lobbied for STEM programs for women and minorities. As a graduate assistant, she worked on NSF grant on the topic of STEM/Flipped Classrooms between schools in Finland, Africa, and the United States. Her own research explored Makerspaces in K-12 schools as an application of constructivist learning. Ashley has extensive conference planning experience, including: ShiftinEdu (formerly Miami Device), Tennessee Educational Technology Conference, Sumner County Education Conference, and EdCamp meetups. Ashley is a Google Certified Innovator, Apple Teacher, and a STAR Discovery Educator. She holds a doctorate in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine University. Ashley lives in Florida (she can often be found at Disney World) and tweets at @Ashly2499.