Linda Smith is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Indiana Teaching Policy Fellow. Linda teaches 7th and 8th grade science at Yorktown Middle School in Yorktown, Indiana. She is the coordinator of the Homework Help Program which provides free after-school tutoring to students. Before teaching at Yorktown Community Schools, Linda worked in the Muncie Community Schools as a middle school science teacher, high school biology teacher, and planetarium director. Linda serves on the Indiana Department of Education Digital Science Curriculum Team. She graduated from University of Evansville with a BA in Biology and Secondary Education and received her MEd in Junior High/Middle School from Ball State University. Linda is pursuing her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction in Global STEM through a blended cohort at Texas Tech University.
