Amber Curtis-Trudell is a National Board Certified teacher who has been teaching middle school English for 14 years, 9 of them at Cottonwood Classical where she is teaching 6th grade. She is obsessed with middle grade and young adult literature and sponsors the Cottonwood Battle of the Books team. Her goal as a teacher is to facilitate the transition of Cottonwood’s newest and youngest students into the role of open-minded thinkers and communicators.