Angela C. French

Session Description (Make & Take):
Follow your yellow brick road and let this session take you across the curriculum with items and ideas that will help you get the most out of every lesson or learning activity. Make the ordinary, extraordinary! Take everyday craft supplies and transform them into magical classroom tools. There will be no place like your classroom when your munchkins interact with these engaging, educational hands-on activities.

This session is co-presented with Carrie Aitkenhead.

Angela’s Bio:
Angela French is the Senior Product Development and Content Manager at Excelligence Learning Corporation for the brands Discount School Supply, Really Good Stuff, and Steve Spangler Science. She plays a vital role in bringing hundreds of proprietary new products to the marketplace each year. Angela leads a team of teacher product developers that create products in several categories including curriculum, classroom management, social-emotional learning, storage, and furniture; to name a few. She is an award-winning product developer, children’s book author, and national speaker.

Prior to joining the Excelligence family, Angela was a classroom teacher for 14 years and has taught regular education, inclusion, literacy intervention, and gifted and talented classes. She holds an AS in Education, a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies, and a MS in Early Childhood Education from Old Dominion University in Virginia.

Angela loves to travel and spend time with her husband and daughter. She is a US Navy Veteran and former professional photographer.