PROFILE
Amber Wilson

Biography
Amber Wilson is a 15 year veteran teacher in the Denver Public Schools. Currently, Ms. Wilson is a master’s degree candidate at CSU-Global University studying Curriculum and Design with an emphasis in Teacher Leadership. Over the course of her career, Amber has taught students English language arts at the secondary level ranging from middle school through high school in several urban schools. For
the past 8 years, Ms. Wilson has taught at Thomas Jefferson High School in Denver; her current classes are Contemporary Literature, AP English Literature and Composition, and World Literature. In 2012, Amber’s teaching was recognized when she received the Mile High Teacher award. Outside of the classroom, Ms. Wilson has served on several district committees, both currently and in the past held elected leadership positions in the Denver Classroom Teachers
Association and the Colorado Education Association, served on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Teacher Advisory Council, and has worked on several initiatives with The Center for Teaching Quality.
Member of NNSTOY
We are a network of State Teachers of the Year and Finalists who use our teacher leadership to ensure that every student receives an outstanding education. We do this through our focus on practice, policy and advocacy.
We Believe...- Every student has a right to a high-quality education, regardless of background, race, gender, disability or socio-economic status.
- To achieve educational excellence for all students, we must transform and support the teaching profession.
- It is imperative that we involve our nation’s expert teachers in conversations about improving education.
- Teacher leaders will transform the teaching profession and create, implement and sustain systems to solve our toughest educational challenges.
- We must prepare our country’s future workforce to be competitive in a global economy and participate in a diverse, democratic country.
- Educators must partner with families and communities on behalf of our nation’s children.