My name is Meg Griswold and I am a secondary educator.  I teach in the high school at American Community School in Amman, Jordan.  I currently teach 9th grade English and AP English Language and Composition.  Before teaching in Amman, I taught secondary English and humanities at Graded, The American School of São Paulo.

My husband, David, teaches middle and high school computer science and coding at ACS.  At Graded, David taught high school math and computer science, including IB Math AI and IB computer science.  We have three kids: Calvin (14), Matilda (11), and Everett (9).

Before teaching overseas, we lived in Nashville, Tennessee, where my husband and I taught at Harpeth Hall, an independent all-girls school.  At Harpeth Hall, I taught 9th, 10th and 11th grade English, AP Language and Composition, and creative writing, and David taught middle school science and high school math, including AP Statistics.

Before moving to Nashville, we met as teachers in New York City public schools.  I taught 6th grade humanities at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women, and 8th grade English and reading intervention at New Heights Academy Charter School.

I have a master’s degree in English education and educational theater from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree in theater and Spanish from Case Western Reserve University.  I spent my junior year of college in London, and I’ve also completed graduate-level education coursework at the University of New Hampshire and George Washington University.

I grew up as a third culture kid.  I spent 5th and 6th grade in Mexico City at the American School Foundation, and 7th-12th grade in Caracas, Venezuela at Escuela Campo Alegre.  I am fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and I have a bilingual IB diploma.

After school, I have coached elementary swimming and SAT practice and preparation for high schoolers.  In my free time I like to run, read, write, and play the mandolin.  I enjoy collecting typewriters and spending time tinkering with them, and I harbor the dream of becoming a typwriter poet.

Read a profile of me published in the Graded Gazette, December 2021.

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