Pat Marshall is a Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. Pat teaches AP English and speech at PORTA High School in Petersburg, Illinois, where she also sponsors an award-winning Future Problem Solvers program. Pat is the president of the PORTA Education Association and has served as a member of the inaugural teacher advisory committee with the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. A National Board Certified Teacher, she earned her BA in English from Western Illinois University and her MA in English from Northern Illinois University.
Don't Think We Need DACA? My Students Prove You Wrong
I teach in rural Central Illinois, and my high school, PORTA, is predominantly White, like most of the small schools in my area. However, I live some 30 miles away from Beardstown, Illinois, a town...
