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Angela Veatch
Angela Veatch, a National Board Certified Teacher with over 25 years in education, serves as an instructional specialist for Fort Smith Public Schools. She is passionate about visible learning, learning by doing, and strengthening teacher efficacy through the PLC process.
Angela Veatch
Angela Veatch is a National Board Certified Teacher who has been working in education for over twenty five years. She currently serves as a secondary instructional specialist at Chaffin Middle School for Fort Smith Public Schools. Prior to this, Angela worked at Darby Middle School for eleven years, a high-poverty school with a large ESL population. She is passionate about building self-efficacy in teachers through the professional learning communities (PLC) process to increase student achievement.
While at Darby Middle School, Angela was a member of the guiding coalition and helped create structures, protocols, and collective commitments that foster a focus on student learning. She is versed in helping teacher teams unpack standards, create units and assessments, analyze data, and share/implement research-based strategies. During her time serving as the instructional facilitator, Darby Middle School was selected to participate in the PLC at Work® process, and later earned the distinction of being named a Model PLC at Work school by Solution Tree. Darby Middle School is recognized as an Arkansas School of Innovation.
Angela collaborated on a state-level grade-specific teacher team composed of educators practicing professional learning communities in Arkansas to develop a resource that supports instructional planning and address learning gaps caused by the pandemic. Most recently, Angela served as a regional network practitioner focused on developing PLCs throughout the state of Arkansas. While working in Louisiana, she earned the distinction of Teacher Leader for the state of Louisiana and served as a LATAAP evaluator.
Angela earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a speciality focus on middle school, and earned her master’s degree while becoming a reading specialist at the University of Louisiana Monroe, formerly known as Northeast Louisiana University. She then earned her administration certification from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She also earned her National Board Teaching Certification in Middle School Mathematics in 2007 and continues to maintain her certification.
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