Esther Jeong is a Teach Plus Commonwealth Teaching Policy Fellow. Esther is an ESL curriculum design lead and lead teacher at Ninth Grade Academy in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where she designs culturally-relevant curriculum for her ESL department and supports content teachers in teaching ELLs. She was awarded the Linda Schulman Innovation Grant to integrate technology into her classroom to build fluency and literacy for ELLs. Esther learned a BA in Psychology from UC San Diego and a MEd in Curriculum and Teaching from Boston University.