Alexa Tegtmeier is a third grade teacher at the Curtis Guild Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts. Alexa has been teaching for five years and is in her second year with Boston Public Schools. While she was an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, Alexa took a class in urban education that inspired her to volunteer with JumpStart through AmeriCorps. With Teach for America, Alexa taught a summer school course in Chicago, Illinois, and then spent two years in Miami, Florida. She received her Master’s from Johns Hopkins University School of Education before returning to teach in Boston.