Alli Bizon is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Senior Policy Fellow and is a Lower Elementary Teacher at Suder Montessori Magnet School in Chicago. She is a member of her school’s Instructional Leadership Team as the grade band chair and the Teacher Advisory Committee for the school’s network. Alli was a fellow for the Chicago Fund for Education’s Action Research Leadership Institute and a finalist for the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, receiving the Award of Distinction. She’s a National Board Certified Teacher as an Early Childhood Generalist and holds Montessori teaching credentials in Early Childhood and Lower Elementary. Alli earned her BS in Communication Science and Disorders from Emerson College and her MAT from the Urban Teacher Education Program at the University of Chicago.