Lisa Ghormley, MEd
Associate Dean
College of聽Education
About Ghormley
Lisa Ghormley serves as the Associate Dean for the College of Education at 爱污传媒. She has accumulated over 25 years of experience in education, with 12 of those years being in higher education. Starting her career as an elementary classroom teacher and quickly rose to the level of Master Teacher. These experiences in education provided Ghormley with much insight into her current role in the College of Education.聽
Ghormley oversees the design, development and management of College of Education programs and course curriculum to ensure the highest academic integrity using principles of instructional design, assessment data of student learning outcomes, regulatory requirements and faculty expertise. Working as the administrative head of the college's initial teacher preparation programs, Ghormley also coordinates projects internally and externally with faculty, multiple colleges and departments within the university and with various external stakeholders to maintain program rigor and authenticity.聽
Ghormley also serves as the edTPA Coordinator for the College of Education. edTPA is a performance-based, subject-specific assessment and support system for students who reside in states that it is needed for teacher licensure.聽
Ghormley鈥檚 passion for education began with her initial role as a classroom teacher. She taught 3rd and 4th grade, worked as a Master Teacher and then moved into higher education. In prior roles within the university, Lisa has managed program and curriculum development processes for undergraduate and graduate education programs within the College of Education.聽聽
Ghormley has a bachelor鈥檚 in elementary education from Grand Canyon University and a master鈥檚 in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University. Ghormley has worked on a Doctorate in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Higher Education (course work completed) from Northern Arizona University.
Research interests:
- Creating well-prepared teachers, emphasizing the development of comprehensive strategies to enhance their effectiveness in the classroom and contribute to positive educational outcomes.鈥
- Identifying optimal strategies to facilitate student success, focusing on effective methodologies that ensure graduation and empower individuals to evolve into exceptional teachers.鈥
Conference presentations:聽
- Ghormley, L. Bartley, A. and Roggeman, P. (April 2023) Professional learning in my pj鈥檚? Professional learning experiences for distance learners.鈥 OLC Innovate Conference, Nashville, TN.鈥
- Ghormley, L. Bartley, A. and Roggeman, P. (June 2022) Re-thinking clinical practice: What 2020 taught teacher preparation.鈥 NASDTEC Conference, Boston, MA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. Bartley, A. and Roggeman, P. (November 2022) Re-thinking professional learning experiences: How 2020 accelerated virtual teaching and learning.鈥 OLC Accelerate Conference, Orlando, FL.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Januse, J.鈥 (June 2020) Key learnings for mastering edTPA. EnCorp鈥檚 Virtual Summer Institute.鈥
- Ghormley, L. (April 2020) How to keep your kids busy at home. Webinar for UOPX.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2020) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA:鈥 An out of state provider鈥檚 journey to preparing teachers in the online modality.鈥 National edTPA Implementation Conference, Austin, TX.鈥 Canceled due to Covid-19鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (February 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.鈥 AACTE Conference, Atlanta, GA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (June 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.鈥 NASDTEC Conference, Denver, CO.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (February 2019) A dispositional approach to addressing teacher retention.鈥 AACTE Conference, Louisville, KY.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Bullock, D. (October 2018) Supporting edTPA faculty and cooperating teachers: An online provider preparing faculty and cooperating teachers to support preservice teacher with edTPA.鈥 National edTPA Implementation Conference, San Jose, CA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (January 2018) Measured efforts toward teacher retention in alternative certification.鈥 Ted Andrews Winter Symposium, San Diego, CA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Bullock, D. (October 2017) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA: an out of state provider鈥檚 journey to preparing teachers. National edTPA Implementation Conference, San Jose, CA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (April 2017) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA: an out of state provider鈥檚 journey to preparing teachers. Southeastern edTPA Implementation Conference, Raleigh, NC.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2017) Measured efforts toward teacher retention and alternative certification.鈥 NAAC Conference, San Antonio, TX.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (December 2016) Key learnings from upscaling edTPA: an out of state provider鈥檚 journey to preparing teachers in GA. GA edTPA Implementation Conference, Macon, GA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (June 2016) Not all alternative certification students are created equal: Creating a pre-assessment portfolio of effective teaching. NASDTEC Conference, Philadelphia, PA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2016) edTPA and the community college transfer.鈥 NACCTEP Conference, Chicago, IL.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2016) Not all alt cert students are created equal.鈥 NAAC Conference, New Orleans, LA.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (December 2015) Pre-assessment and the alternative certificate.鈥 爱污传媒, Honolulu, HI.鈥
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (March 2015) Alternative route educators: Impacting school and student success. NAAC Conference, Chicago, IL.鈥
- Ghormley, L. (February 2015) edTPA implementation journey. Presentation held at 爱污传媒 for visiting higher education institutions.鈥
- Ghormley, L. Smith, S. and Roggeman, P. (October 2014) Linking programmatic accreditation to the development of teacher performance assessments. CAEP Conference, Washington DC.鈥
- Fleming, A. and Ghormley L. (August 2013). Coaching and mentoring.鈥 Webinar held online.鈥
Courses
Ghormley also serves as the Faculty Supervisor for College of Education student teachers.聽
Interviews:
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (September 2020) Are you prepared to be your child鈥檚 teacher? All State Insurance. Online聽
- Ghormley, L. and Roggeman, P. (July 2020) Are you prepared to be your child鈥檚 teacher? Kelly Temporary Services. Online
