About Antoinette Melvin
Antoinette Melvin serves as Leading Educators' strategy leader for support and innovation around ELA instruction. She has a strong passion for English language arts, seeing it not only as an important field in education but also as a powerful tool to be utilized in the mission toward an equitable future for all.
Antoinette was most recently a senior associate at edCount, LLC, where she worked with federal, state, and district-level clients nationwide on projects related to ELA content development, assessments, and data. In addition, she worked to initiate the company’s equity mission as the Director of Antiracism and Equity. She spent several years as an ELA teacher, curriculum specialist, and instructional coach in southeast North Carolina.
She holds a B.S. in Secondary English Education and an M.A. in English with a focus on multicultural and transnational literatures, both from East Carolina University. Literacy is truly her life as she spends much of her time reading, writing, and keeping herself open to learning and growing through new experiences.
Antoinette was most recently a senior associate at edCount, LLC, where she worked with federal, state, and district-level clients nationwide on projects related to ELA content development, assessments, and data. In addition, she worked to initiate the company’s equity mission as the Director of Antiracism and Equity. She spent several years as an ELA teacher, curriculum specialist, and instructional coach in southeast North Carolina.
She holds a B.S. in Secondary English Education and an M.A. in English with a focus on multicultural and transnational literatures, both from East Carolina University. Literacy is truly her life as she spends much of her time reading, writing, and keeping herself open to learning and growing through new experiences.
"I am a proponent of instruction that advocates for culture and human empathy. I see the tools we use both in the classroom and in professional learning as vehicles to infuse these tenets into our communities."
