Amanda Ladish is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Arkansas Policy Fellow and is a secondary Critical Reading/English Language Development teacher in Springdale. Amanda co-founded her school’s yoga & mindfulness club and was voted GJHS Difference Maker in 2018. She is a member of the Arkansas Declaration of Learning program, the We Are America program and a board member and building representative of the Springdale Education Association. She earned a BSE from the University of Arkansas, an ESL endorsement, and an MA in TESOL from Arkansas Tech University.