Stephanie Meuse is a 4th grade teacher at an independent charter school in Central Falls, RI. She holds a BA in English and Early Childhood Education and an MAT in Elementary Education from Northeastern University. Stephanie is also licensed as an MLL teacher and has a passion for learning how to leverage students' home language skills to unlock academic success in the classroom. She strives to bring research into practice, joy into rigor and believes strongly that teaching is an act of social justice. When she isn't teaching, she enjoys reading voraciously, laughing with her husband and raising two amazing humans.