Monique Constance, M.Ed.

Founder

Monique Constance, M.Ed. is a critical and creative literacy educator with a passion for transforming how literature is taught in advanced high school English classrooms. With over a decade as an educator, curriculum designer, and instructional leader in AP Literature and IB English A programs, Monique has worked across classrooms to support teachers and gifted learners in Title I schools.

She believes that when educators know themselves, develop an intentional literary praxis, and are a part of a community, student learning transforms.

She holds a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Urban Education from Texas A&M University, where she graduated summa cum laude, and a Bachelors of Arts in International Affairs and a minor in Spanish from the University of Georgia. Monique also holds a certification in Culturally Responsive Literature Instruction from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Presentations

ELATE NCTE 2025 Summer Conference

Do Things Accordingly: An Instructional Praxis for Black English Teachers of Gifted Students in order to Teach Zora Neale Hurston, College of Charleston. Charleston, South Carolina. July 2025.

Zora Neale Hurston Summit

From Out the Hiding Place: On Zora, Language, and Love. Barnard College, Columbia University. New York, New York. February 2025.