Jamey Olney

Jamey Olney teaches 7th and 8th grade English Language Development at Glick Middle School in Modesto, CA, where she serves as the English Language Development site coordinator and advises the Hispanic Youth Leadership Council. Jamey previously taught grades K-8 and has served as an instructional coach and school administrator in underserved communities throughout Northern California and for the Department of Defense Education Activity in Germany for the past 28 years. She helped develop the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Literacy: Reading-Language Arts certificate and was featured in the 2016 ASCD documentary “Disrupting Poverty”.

In 2019-2020 she served as a California Teach Plus Policy Fellow and a 2021-2022 Teach Plus Emergent Bilingual Change Agent Network leader. She was recognized as 2020 California League of Middle Schools Educator of the Year, and received the 2021 California Teacher Association School Bell award. Her policy and research interests include English Learners, community and family engagement, and socio-emotional learning. In her free time, she likes to read, travel, and watch her teenage daughter run cross country and show goats.