Monica Washington is an English III and AP English III teacher at Texas High School in Texarkana where she serves as department chair. She has been in education for 19 years and has taught grades 7-12. She has served as adjunct professor at LeMoyne-Owen College and Texarkana College. She began her teaching career in 1998 in an inner-city school in Memphis, TN and moved to Texas in 2007 with her husband Ricky, a native Texan, who is a sixth-grade social studies teacher.
Washington became Texas State Teacher of the Year in 2014, and that role continues today as she travels the country speaking to teachers. She serves in the Texas State Teachers Association and the National Network of State Teachers of the Year. In addition, Washington is a 2015 Lowell Milken Center Fellow, and she will work with her students and the center to discover and honor unsung heroes. She is also a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow and traveled to Peru in 2015 to study the educational system there. Washington is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Teacher Leadership.
