Ashley Nichols The Reading League Georgia

Ashley Nichols is an educator who has been in the field for over twenty-two years. She
received her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education at Auburn University and earned
her Master Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Georgia Southern University. Her
experiences range from teaching second grade, kindergarten, providing instructional support to
teachers and working as an intervention teacher. Ashley holds a Dyslexia Endorsement and has
been formally trained through the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling
(LETRS) program. She is also an Acadience Reading K-6 Mentor and conducts training on the
Acadience Reading universal screening and progress monitoring assessment. She is currently
serving as an instructional coach in the elementary setting, with a passion for ensuring students
acquire the necessary early literacy skills so they can be proficient readers and writers. Her
knowledge about the Science of Reading and personal classroom experience helps her as she
works with teachers on incorporating structured literacy practices in their classrooms. Ashley
spends her free time reading and learning about research based instructional strategies and
methods to teach the foundational reading skills and is an active board member of the Georgia
chapter of The Reading League.