Angela Veatch

Angela Veatch

Angela Veatch is a National Board Certified Teacher who has worked in education for over 20 years. She is a secondary instructional specialist at Chaffin Middle School for Fort Smith Public Schools. Before this, Angela worked at Darby Middle School, a high-poverty school with a large ESL population, for 11 years. She is passionate about building self-efficacy in teachers through the professional learning communities (PLC) process to increase student achievement.

While at Darby Middle School, Angela was a member of the guiding coalition and helped create structures, protocols, and collective commitments that foster a focus on student learning. She is versed in helping teacher teams unpack standards, create units and assessments, analyze data, and share/implement research-based strategies. At the same time, serving as the instructional facilitator, Darby Middle School was selected to participate in its PLC at Work® project and later earned the distinction of being named a Model PLC at Work school by Solution Tree. Darby Middle School is recognized as an Arkansas School of Innovation.

Angela also worked on a state grade-level collaborative teacher team made up of practicing professional learning communities for Arkansas. She served on the mathematics committee to create a “playbook” resource to guide instructional planning that would address gaps in instruction that occurred during the pandemic. In Texas, Angela was an integral part of a Tier 3 intervention program that significantly increased the number of students scoring on grade level. She earned the distinction of Teacher Leader for Louisiana and served as a LATAAP evaluator.

Angela earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a specialty focus on middle school. She earned her master’s degree while becoming a reading specialist at the University of Louisiana Monroe, formerly known as Northeast Louisiana University. She then earned her administration certification from Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

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