Sarah Carrola is a 2018-19 Teach Plus Texas Policy Fellow. Sarah teaches 8th grade language arts at Whittier Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. She serves on the Campus Leadership Team, the AVID Site Team, and the Technology Committee. Sarah has served as a grade level sponsor and plans and organizes all field trips for her grade level each year. In 2016, her colleagues at Whittier voted her the campus “Teacher of the Year” and she was part of a team that presented at national (UCEA Detroit) and international (EERA Dublin) educational research conferences. In 2017, Sarah was accepted into the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright Teacher’s for Global Classrooms Fellowship, attending a symposium in Washington, D.C. on the necessity of global thinking and 21st century learning and traveling to Indonesia to teach and learn how to highlight global issues in her classes. She received a BA in History and a minor in Political Science from St. Mary’s University, a MA in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Texas San Antonio, and is a graduate of the Urban School Leaders Collaborative at UTSA.
