Carla Cariño is a Teach Plus Colorado Teaching Policy Fellow. Carla teaches 11th grade civics, AP government and politics and ethnic studies at North High School in the Denver Public School District. She is one of the inaugural membesr of the Colorado Commissioner’s Teacher Cabinet, the state’s education commissioner’s teacher advisory board. Carla is also a member of the CDE Civics Standards Revision and Review Committee and the Civics Curriculum Review Committee for Denver Public Schools. She earned a BA in American Studies, teaching certificate, and an MA in Instruction and Curriculum from the University of Colorado Boulder.