About me
Sarah Caldwell is a bi-racial black educator who was raised in a suburb of Wichita, Kansas where her education focused exclusively on white authors until her English teacher, Mrs. A, assigned Toni Morrison during her senior year of high school. She immersed herself in texts by diverse global authors and scholars during college at Yale University where she earned degrees in Anthropology and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Sarah has been a classroom teacher, teacher coach, and reading specialist for twenty-four years and currently leads a general education classroom in Albuquerque Public Schools. She has a degree in Language and Literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is certified as a Dyslexia Practitioner through the Wilson Reading System, and is a National Board Certified Teacher (Middle Childhood Generalist). Sarah approaches teaching Native Literature with a sense of her own limitations as a non-native teacher. In designing and teaching, she tries to ensure that students have agency to construct their own interpretations of the texts they read.
