Cody Norton

Overview 
To review my most recent CV, please click HERE. I am on track to defend my dissertation in April 2027. I am actively searching for tenure-track and clinical-track assistant professor roles with a Fall 2027 start date. If you know of roles in teacher education, early childhood education, elementary education, literacy education, or foundations of education, please feel free to connect at cnorton@umd.edu.

Background
My name is Cody Norton, and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership department, specializing in Teacher Education and Professional Development. My primary research interest examines how the intersection of community organizing traditions, critical pedagogies, and teacher preparation can inform how pre-service and in-service teachers make sense of their roles in building social movements for educational equity and justice. Currently, I am conducting my dissertation research in a class I designed. In this study, future educators collaboratively lead social action campaigns on their university campus, and I examine how their participation shapes their understanding of collective justice and critical praxis.

Before graduate school, I taught elementary school for 11 years in Washington, DC. I then served as an instructional coach for the teacher preparation program City Teaching Alliance, coordinator in the Content and Curriculum division for DC Public Schools, and curriculum writer for the DC History Center. I earned an A.A. in Humanities from Jamestown Community College, a B.A. in Sociology from Ithaca College, and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from George Mason University.