Meghan Everette is resident school ambassador fellow at the U.S. Department of Education, a mathematics coach, and the executive director of the ASCD Emerging Leader Alumni Affiliate. She was the 2013 Alabama Elementary Teacher of the Year. Everette codesigned Powered By Teach to Lead Utah; spent six years as a blogger for the Scholastic Top Teaching blog; and taught at George Hall Elementary, a national turnaround model school in Mobile, Alabama.