Ashlie Dyer, M.Ed., Community Director

Ashlie DyerAshlie Dyer is so excited to be a member of the Open Doors team.  She comes to us with a wide variety of experiences working with youth.  As a graduate of Cleveland Heights High School, her commitment to our community and the greater Cleveland area is unwavering. 

After completing her social work degree from CSU, she began working with youth at the Shaker Heights Youth Center as coordinator of the mentoring program and a youth leadership program. Her main focus was recruiting volunteers to mentor students that were in need of a caring adult in their lives. She also began Y2Y, a youth to youth mentoring program incorporated within the after school programs in the district.  Y2Y focused on two principles; building the skills needed to be a leader in our community and the importance of volunteerism.  

As her youngest daughter began kindergarten, she knew it was time for her to go back to school.  She attended Ursuline College for her Master’s in Education degree.  She taught at University School for six years and supported the development of a new reading program.  One of her fondest memories at U.S. other than the daily work with the boys, was chaperoning a middle school trip to Honduras with the Hope for Honduran Children Foundation.  While in Honduras, the group worked on the foundation of a tilapia pond and a greenhouse at an orphanage for boys.

She has two beautiful daughters in the Cleveland Heights School system; a seventh grader at Roxboro Middle that is also enrolled in Open Doors, and the other is a  tenth grader at Cleveland Heights High School.

 

Tell me and I’ll forget

Show me and I may remember

Involve me and I will understand

Native American Proverb

 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Chinese Proverb

 

Seeing is different than being told

African Proverb