Over 24 years, Ellie Roberts has taught 5^th to 12^th grade English and Social Studies. She currently teaches in a small, rural K-8 school in western Colorado, where coal mining, organic farming, and ranching are the main industries. Ellie graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in History and an MA in Reading from Adams State University, and later attended a Gilder Lehrman Institute at New York University and NEH programs at University of North Carolina Asheville and University of Virginia. Ellie’s focus is instilling the love of reading in students at a time when instructional decisions are made based on quantifiable data.

(Photo credit: Sam Roberts)