Dr. Ordynans has more than 25 years of experience in education, beginning as a classroom teacher. At NYSCAS, she is the chair of the education department and is committed to advancing equitable and inclusive learning experiences for all students. She led a team of researchers in the development, implementation, and assessment of reading comprehension programs and spent years training and advising early career special educators in providing intensive literacy intervention for students in pre-K through high school.
Outside of Touro, Dr. Ordynans has consulted on literacy projects with the education research teams of Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Curriculum Associates, researching program effectiveness and contributing to publications.
Education
- BS, Jacksonville State University
- EdM, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
- PhD, Columbia University
Publications
- JG Ordynans, M Narayanan, S Eisenberger, J Hopkinson. "Teaching as Relational Work: The Interplay of Teacher Self-Efficacy, Teaching Context, and the Teacher-Student Bond." The Teacher Educator, 1-22, 2025
- JG Ordynans, M Narayanan, D Rice, A Vasquez, S Wierzbowski, K Ferrari, .... "The power of teacher voice: Developing agency, advocacy, and efficacy amid COVID-19." The Teacher Educator 59 (1), 41-65, 2024
- M Narayanan, JG Ordynans, A Wang, MS McCluskey, N Elivert, .... "Putting the self in self-efficacy: Personal factors in the development of early teacher self-efficacy." Education and Urban Society 55 (2), 175-200, 2023
- M Narayanan, J Ordynans. "Self-efficacy is a story: Teachers’ possible selves in a pandemic world." Journal for Multicultural Education 16 (1), 64-76, 2022
- M Narayanan, JG Ordynans. "Meaning making and self-efficacy: Teacher reflections through COVID-19." The Teacher Educator 57 (1), 26-44, 2022
- JP Williams, JC Kao, LS Pao, JG Ordynans, JG Atkins, R Cheng, .... "Close analysis of texts with structure (CATS): An intervention to teach reading comprehension to at-risk second graders.." Journal of Educational Psychology 108 (8), 1061, 2016
- JP Williams, S Pollini, AM Nubla-Kung, AE Snyder, A Garcia, .... "An intervention to improve comprehension of cause/effect through expository text structure instruction.." Journal of Educational Psychology 106 (1), 1, 2014
