Margaret (Meg) Amarante is a 2021-2022 Teach Plus Indiana Innovations Teacher Collaborative teacher leader and is the Middle School Teacher of Record at Cold Spring School in Indianapolis, providing inclusion instruction in Math and ELA. Meg serves on Cold Spring School’s Teacher Advisory Committee and is also a standing member of the school’s iTEAM and MTSS teams. Meg was previously a Special Educator and Science Teacher at KIPP Indy College Prep. She is a Teach Plus Indiana Policy Fellowship alumna and a Teach for America Indianapolis alumna. She has created and facilitated SPED specific Professional Development for her peer teachers as well as new TFA Corps members. Meg graduated from Purdue University with a BA in Biology and a minor in English. She received her MA in Teaching with a focus on Special Education from Marian University.