Mary Porter Hewett is a 2022-2023 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow and is a Pre-K Lead Teacher at Alphonsus Academy and Center of the Arts in Chicago. She focuses on building SEL skills in young learners while building a high-quality early childhood program. Porter began teaching preschool in Chonburi, Thailand where she helped develop a school’s first ESL early childhood curriculum. She earned her BA in International Relations from the University of Texas at Austin and her PEL from the University of West Florida and is currently working on a MEd in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Teacher Leadership from DePaul University, Chicago.
