Teresha Jones
Teresha Jones, Ed.D., has over 20 years of experience in education where she has served as a basketball coach, a middle and high school English teacher, a college English instructor, a curriculum specialist, an assistant principal, and as a principal at her high school alma mater Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In her role as instructional leader, Dr. Jones presented at the 2022 Model Schools Conference the year that Central High School received the designation of being a Model School by The International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) for being a Turnaround School. She previously served on the Region 7 Comprehensive Center Advisory Board team. Dr. Jones earned the Certified Instructional Leader (CIL) Certification through CLAS during the summer of 2025. Currently, she is serving as a practitioner in the field as a middle school English educator in Tuscaloosa City Schools.
Dr. Jones holds four degrees from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Human Development (2003), a master’s degree in Secondary Education Language Arts (2005), an Educational Specialist degree in Secondary Education Language Arts (2008), and her Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction (2011). She also completed her certification in Educational Leadership in 2015.
Dr. Jones has a passion for all children and credits her enthusiasm to serve in this capacity as part of her calling. She is the proud mother of three beautiful daughters: Aerial, Angela, and Adalyn.
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