Michele Hand provides intervention services to kindergarten and first-grade students at Stanton-Smith Elementary School in Whitehouse, TX. She is a Teaching Policy Fellow with Teach Plus Texas and currently serves her district as a Whitehouse Education Foundation grant advocate, Stanton Smith’s 2019–2020 Teacher of the Year, district representative for the gifted and talented, and professional development facilitator. Hand previously taught first, second, and third grade in Texas’ Whitehouse and Crowley Independent School Districts as well as Louisiana and Canada. Hand graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education.