Tough class? Learn from hand-selected experts with proven strategies. Or just someone to talk to.

Get the teaching support you need: personalized advice, resources and coaching from vetted experts — on-demand, when you need it most.

How it works

Coaching

Get matched with expert teachers.
Direct message when you need it.

Have a question on classroom management? How to teach multiplication? Or need a free resource for tomorrow’s class? You’ll immediately be matched with 2 experienced teachers in your topic areas of interest who can help. Get personalized, on-demand support when you need it most.

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Community

Share what you know.
Learn what you don't.

With Uppercase, you are never alone. Connect with peers around similar needs, join discussion threads, and expand your teaching network. Engage in meaningful teacher professional development with an uplifting community of teachers who love what they do and want to support each other.

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Meet our expert teachers

Uppercase is powered by top-notch, trusted teachers who have been there before. Our experts are award-winning, hand-selected based on their mastery of content and track record of student success.

Brian Lassiter
24 years of experience

Brian is a current 3rd grade teacher and Social Studies Curriculum Developer in Tallahassee, Florida. He has taught grades 2-5 across his career and was named Florida’s History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving history education. He has also been named Teacher of the Year by Florida Council for the Social Studies.

Rachel Lamb
16 years of experience

Rachel Lamb taught 2nd grade in Denver, Colorado. She is known for lessons that are punctuated by real-world applications, layered by technology, design thinking and project-based subjects. Her perspective on education has resulted in becoming a National Board Certified Teacher, Nearpod Pionear, National Geographic Certified Educator, two-time TEDxABQ Education Speaker, Apple Distinguished Educator, PBS Digital Innovator, the Henry Ford Teacher Innovator and an ISTE Making IT Happen award recipient.

Dawn Bates
14 years of experience

Dawn Bates is a current 2nd grade teacher in Joliet, IL and is passionate about teaching Science and Social Studies. She has experience in grades 1-2 in a Suburban, Public, Title 1 school. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and received the Joliet Area Great Teacher Award for her work. Dawn is also an alumni of Teach Plus, an organization that empowers teachers to advance policy changes, and improve instructional leadership.

Gina Pepin
23 years of experience

Dr. Gina Pepin teaches in a rural Michigan elementary school as a reading intervention teacher. She holds an Ed.D. in Teacher Leadership and a MS in Reading & Literacy K-6. She is the 2023-2024 and 2018-2019 Region 1 Teacher of the Year for Michigan. She is passionate about early literacy and teacher leadership and co-authored a professional learning book with children's book author Eric Litwin entitled The Power of Joyful Reading: Help Your Young Readers Soar to Success (Scholastic, 2020). 

Erean Mei
14 years of experience

Erean is an Elementary School Teacher at KIPP Chicago and is a 2020-2021 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow. Previously, she was a Head Start Teacher at Chicago Youth Centers. She holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Instructional Leadership with a specialization in Early Childhood Education and Special Education Endorsement from the University of Illinois Chicago, an English as a Second Language Endorsement from Roosevelt University, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology with a Minor in History from Northern Illinois University.

Deanne Moyle-Hicks
30 years of experience

Deanne Moyle-Hicks is the 2022 Nevada Teacher of the Year and a 30-year veteran with a National Board Certification. Deanne earned a teaching degree from the University Nevada Las Vegas and holds a master’s degree from Lesley University. Deanne has taught grades K-6 and was a literacy coach for 5 years, all in Title I schools in Elko and Washoe County Nevada. The last 5 years of her teaching career were spent on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation looping with her students.

Kristen Poindexter
23 years of experience

Kristen Poindexter has been a Kindergarten teacher for 23 years and is passionate about teaching Science. She is the recipient of several national awards, including the 2014 National Shell Science Teacher Award, 2014 Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching Award, 2018 Robert E. Yager Excellence in Science Teaching Award, and the 2023 Ball State University Outstanding Alumni Award. Kristen is currently pursuing her Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction; Science Education at Indiana University with a minor in Early Childhood Leadership and Organization.

Caryn Long
36 years of experience

Caryn Long is a veteran educator of 35 years with experience across all levels from K-College. Caryn’s passion is in Elementary STEM-based teaching. She is a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching recipient for the state of North Carolina and a recent inductee to the National Teachers Hall of Fame. Caryn is also an Albert Einstein Distinguished Teacher Fellowship awardee, placed at NASA Headquarters to develop education programs for Title I schools.

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