Pat Marshall is a Teach Plus Illinois Teaching Policy Fellow. Pat teaches AP English and speech at PORTA High School in Petersburg, IL, where she also sponsors an award-winning Future Problem Solvers program. Pat is the president of the PORTA Education Association and has served as a member of the inaugural teacher advisory committee with the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. A National Board Certified Teacher, she earned her BA in English from Western Illinois University and her MA in English from Northern Illinois University.