Lauren Jewett is a National Board Certified third/fourth-grade special education teacher and case manager in New Orleans with over 13 years of experience. She holds a BA in history and political science from the University of Rochester and is currently pursuing an MA in English from the Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English where she is part of the Bread Loaf Teacher Network. She is a 2019 ASCD Emerging Leader, worked with Understood as a Teacher Fellow and Content Expert, and serves on the Digital Promise Learner Variability Project Practitioner Teacher Advisory Board.