Margaret Simeone is a Teach Plus Commonwealth Teaching Policy Fellow. Margaret teaches 6th grade English Language Arts at John W. McDevitt Middle School in Waltham Public Schools, where she serves as a member of her school’s language acquisition team to support the development and implementation of ESL programming. She began her teaching career in Houston Independent School District as a TFA member. Margaret has worked with Match Teacher Residency to provide coaching and feedback to residents in training. She received her BA in English from the University of Delaware and her EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.