Diane Feole is a Teach Plus Rhode Island Teaching Policy Fellow who teaches English and rhetoric to seniors at Cranston High School West in Cranston. Diane started teaching in Cranston over 22 years ago. She began her career as an ESL teacher, and after three years transitioned into the English classroom. She also teaches AP literature and composition, honors British literature, and writing to inform and explain, a college concurrent enrollment class. Diane has taught every grade from 7th through 12th, and every level from inclusion to AP. She also teaches at the University of Rhode Island in the departments of writing and rhetoric, and secondary English education preparation. She received her BA in journalism from the University of Rhode Island and her MEd from Rhode Island College.