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Portrait of Meghan Sullivan

Honor Society® member

Meghan Sullivan

Middle School ELA Teaching at McLaughlin middle school

  • Columbia University
  • secondary education
  • Class of 2022
  • Mobridge, South Dakota

Member since April 2020

About

After starting my career in the theatre industry I found myself getting pulled toward teaching. I started with writing study guides for theatres and going into classrooms teaching theatre games. I then found myself more interested in educational activism. We are constantly confronted with the educational inequity in this world so I wanted to become a teacher. I started serving in Americorps as a City Year corps member then transitioning to Teach for America getting my teaching certification and teaching on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Now I continue to strive to have my students see their identities in the classroom through culturally relevant pedagogy. We work on questioning our educational systems and are dreaming toward a better future.

Education

  • New York University

    Dramatic Writing/ Irish Studies

    2011 – 2015

Goals and interests

Career goal

Middle School ELA Teacher

Graduate school interests

Studying the Achievement Gap, Restorative Justice Practices, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Process vs. Product teaching.

Outside the classroom

writing, improv comedy, theatre

Experience

  • Middle School ELA Teaching

    McLaughlin middle school

    Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

  • 7/8 Grade Self Contained Teacher

    Rock Creek Grant School

    Jul 2018 – May 2019

  • corps member

    City Year DC

    Jul 2017 – Jun 2018

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced

Additional information

  • city year

  • Teach for America

  • national honor society

  • girl scouts of america

  • international thespian society