Heather L. Horsley, PhD

Literacy, Early, Bilingual, Special Education
Kremen School of Education and Human Development
MA in Education, ECE Option
hhorsley@mail.fresnostate.edu

Academic Degrees: (Include teaching credentials, if any)

Professional Experience:

Faculty and Administrative Load: (Should total 12 units each semester)

Community Service

University/School Service

Professional Association Memberships

Publications (Selected)

Billen, M., Soltero Lopez, A., Hart, S., Wahleithner, J., Horsley, H., & Alamillo, L. (forthcoming 2021). If we want culturally sustaining teachers, we must be culturally sustaining teacher educators: Modeling culturally sustaining pedagogy in a teacher education residency program. In. S. Helfrich and S. Hartman (Eds.). Exemplary clinical models of teacher education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Horsley, H. & Yun, C. (2020). Using data for continuous improvement: Reflection by California State University, Fresno. In M. Miller (Ed.), New Generation of Educators Initiative: Transforming teacher preparation (pp. 62-66). The California State University. https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/teacher-

Fong, K. & Horsley, H. (2020). A multi-dimensional analysis of the preschool instructional leadership survey. Journal of Applied Measurement, 21(2), 16-35.

Horsley, H., Allen, K., Brandl, S., Berrios, B., Macias, C. (March 2019). Changing teacher education one coach at a time. CCNews, 30(1), 21-23.

Horsley, H. L. (2018). The paradoxical implications of developing youth in a Chicago Public Military Academy. In A. Ali & T. Buenavista (Eds.), Education at war: The fight for students of color in America’s public schools. (pp. 162-186). NY: Fordham University Press.

Horsley, H. L., Vasquez, J., Teale, W. (2017). Evaluation of Lead Learn Excel Instructional Support Services for Cross-Sector Preschool Programs in Illinois. Final Report. Chicago, IL: Center for Literacy.

Whalen, S. P., Horsley, H. L., Parkinson, K. K., Pacchiano, D. (2016). An Evaluation Study of a Professional Development Initiative to Strengthen Organizational Conditions in Early Education Settings. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk (7)2.

Pacchiano, D. M., Whalen, S. P., Horsley, H., & Parkinson, K. (2016). Efficacy study of a professional development intervention to strengthen organizational conditions and effective teaching in early education settings. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness.

Whalen, S. P., Horsley, H. L., Parkinson, K.P., Vasquez, J., Tozer, S. (2016). The PDI Study: Development Evaluation of a Job-Embedded Professional Development Initiative for Early Childhood Professionals. Chicago, IL: Center for Urban Education Leadership.

Ullrich, A. & Horsley, H. L. (2014). Intercultural dialogue: Understanding Janusz Korczak using qualitative interviews about a Polish-German exchange project. European Journal of Research on Social Studies, 1(1), 47-53.

Papers and Presentations (Selected)

“Mapping teacher candidate experience for continuous improvement in an educator preparation program” Association, San Francisco, CA.

“Leveraging partnerships to address puzzles of practice: The development of a rubric for formative feedback” Symposium, Chicago, IL.

“Lessons Learned from Leaders Organizing Professional Learning in Cross Sector Preschool Contexts”ational Research Association, Toronto, Ontario, CAN.

“Implementation Fidelity of a Professional Development Model for Early Childhood Leaders in Cross Sector Preschool Contexts” Families’ 2018 National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington, DC.

“Initial Lessons Learned from Expanding Early Learning Opportunities for Infants and Toddlers Through Early Head Start Child Care Partnerships” Children and Families’ 2018 National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington, DC.

“Assessing Change in Instructional Leadership Development in Cross Sector Preschool Contexts" presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

“Wows, Wonders, Wishes: Exploring 100 Languages of Children” Cesar Chavez Education Conference, Fresno, CA.

“A Multidimensional Rasch Analysis of the Preschool Instructional Leadership Survey” sented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

“Implementation and Impact Studies of an Investing in Innovation (i3) Development Grant to Strengthen Organizational Conditions and Effective Teaching in Early Education Settings” presented at the 2016 National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington, DC.

“Effective Job-Embedded Literacy PD for Your Teachers” of the International Literacy Association, Boston, MA.

“Student Constructions of the Gendered Body at a Public Military Academy” 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

“Navigating Contested Spaces: Principals Leading for Social Justice in a Demoralized Urban High School” Administration, San Diego, CA.

“Building Early Childhood Education Leadership Capacity Through Job-Embedded Professional Development: An Evaluation Study” Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

“Intercultural Dialogue: Polish and German Students Making Sense of the Educational Philosophy of Janusz Korczak” at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Association of Social Science Research, Rome, Italy.

“Rupturing pipelines: Latinos and educational, military, and prison industrial complexes,” presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Chicago, IL.

Maneuvered opportunities: Black and Latina/o high school students complicate their participation in JROTC,” Association, Denver, CO.

Grants and Research

Collaborative Works/Projects (with public schools, community agencies, etc.)

Teacher Residency Partnership: Grounded in the idea that teacher preparation must not occur in isolation from practice-based experiences in local school districts, partnerships with four local districts were formed in an effort to improve teacher quality and K-12 student achievement. As the teacher residency partnership coordinator, I help facilitate the development of a shared vision, curricular alignment, and continuous improvement efforts. I meet every week with district leadership and work alongside them from recruitment of new residents to seeking grant funding for program sustainability.

Collegial Works/Projects (i.e., grants, articles, conference presentations, etc.)

In collaboration with faculty from Child Family Sciences, we developed a Kremen Information Session to create a teacher pipeline of undergraduate students with child development backgrounds into our credential and Masters in Early Childhood Education program.

In collaboration with ECE faculty from Fresno Pacific University, Fresno City College, Reedley College, we led the Central Valley ECE taskforce where we facilitated regional steering committee meetings. Together, we developed 3 regional priorities that informed the development of a statewide plan for higher education faculty to develop and strengthen ECE teacher preparation and professional development.

Professional Development

Honors (Optional)

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