Justin Parmenter is a veteran English teacher with more than three decades in the classroom. He began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching high school English in Albania shortly after the fall of communism. He later taught in Istanbul, Turkey, and on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona before moving to North Carolina in 2002. He has been a seventh-grade language arts teacher at South Academy of International Languages in Charlotte since 2006.

Justin is an alumnus of the Hope Street Group North Carolina Teacher Voice Network and will be eternally grateful to that organization for awakening his love of writing and interest in policy. His op-eds on public education have appeared in the Charlotte Observer, Chalkbeat, the Washington Post, USA Today, and Education Week, and he writes frequently at his blog, Notes from the Chalkboard, often at 4 AM with his beloved French press at his elbow.

When he’s not teaching or writing, you can usually find him running.

(You can also find Justin on LinkedIn)