Josie Malone is an english language arts teacher at Phelps Architecture, Construction, and Engineering High School.

Ms. Josie Malone has spent her five-year teaching career in DCPS, the last four of which have been spent at Phelps Architecture, Construction, and Engineering High School. Phelps’s emphasis on rigorous instruction and the dedicated staff create a positive instructional environment in which Ms. Malone and her students excel.

Ms. Malone was inspired to teach as an undergraduate while volunteering with children, and she now teaches eleventh and twelfth grade English as well as AP English Language. Ms. Malone chose to teach in DCPS because of the opportunity to facilitate positive growth in the community. She shares, “I want to continue to improve our schools until DCPS is a system where anyone would love to have their child learn every day. I want this school district to be a place where rigorous instructional opportunities are available to every child.”

Last spring, Ms. Malone collaborated with the DCPS Office of Curriculum and Instruction to write the eleventh grade English curriculum, and this summer she represented the district at the prestigious National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) Conference in Chicago.