Renee Moore, a Mississippi Teacher of the Year (2001), served as a classroom teacher for 17 years—and spent eight of those years as Lead Teacher at Broad Street High School in Shelby, Mississippi. She began teaching part-time at the college level in 1994 and recently accepted a full-time position at Mississippi Delta Community College. Renee is an NBCT (Adolescent/Young Adult English Language Arts) and received the Milken National Educator Award in 2001. Renee has been a Carnegie Fellow and was the first practicing classroom teacher to be appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is also a member of the Mississippi Commission on Teacher and Administrator Licensure. She has published a number of articles about Culturally Engaged Instruction, including "Circles of Influence," which appeared in Going Public with Our Teaching: A Reader (Teachers College Press, 2005).

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