Caitlin Padget

Teacher
Saluda County Schools

For seven years, Caitlin has taught in early childhood classrooms and has provided school-wide professional development on improving early literacy outcomes.

Caitlin Padget is a kindergarten teacher from Saluda Primary School in Saluda, SC. After moving districts from North Carolina to South Carolina, she saw the inequities that students from diverse backgrounds face. These experiences compelled her to become an advocate for her students and to reject the idea that their circumstances or ethnicity meant that they could not be successful. She has found a way for her students to be successful and wants to share her experience with other educators.