Zachary Trail is a 2020-2021 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow who teaches preschool at Richard J. Daley Elementary Academy in Chicago Public Schools, where he also serves as a member of the Professional Personnel Leadership Committee and the Social-Emotional Learning and Instructional Leadership teams. Having entered teaching from a research background in developmental psychology, his passions lie in social-emotional learning, trauma-informed practice, and culturally-sustaining pedagogy. He received his BA in Psychology with honors from the University of Chicago, and his MS in Early Childhood Education from the Erikson Institute.
