Michelle Dean is a Teach Plus Commonwealth Teaching Policy Fellow. Michelle teaches 8th grade humanities at the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston, where she is the student life coordinator and serves on the school site council. Michelle is a member of the Massachusetts Council of Social Studies and has been a presenter at the Northeast Regional Conference for the Social Studies. She was a National World War II Museum Summer Institute Fellow and was selected to study the Pacific Theatre of World War II in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Michelle earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.