AMLE podcast series features first-year teacher Abbey Hedgepeth
Published in Alumni, ESSE, News
Hedgepeth
Abbey Hedgepeth (BSED ’13) is featured in the first of a series of Association of Middle Level Educators podcasts about the critical work happening in middle level-schools and the critical lives that make that work possible.
Listen in as AMLE talks to Hedgepeth, a first-year teacher, talks about the hopes she has for herself and her students as the school year begins. You can follow Abbey’s journey as AMLE keeps the conversation going throughout the school year.
Hedgepeth was in a cohort taught by Educational Theory and Practice faculty Kathy Thompson and Gayle Andrews at Hilsman Middle School, one of the Model 4 Professional Development Schools. She was a leader in her EDMS (Middle Grades Program) cohort, contributed significantly to the work at Hilsman and to the Athens community (she tutored at the East Athens Community Center). She did her student teaching at another of the Model 4 Professional Development Schools, J.J. Harris Elementary Charter School.