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Rebecca Brooke Wheeler is the Assistant Superintendent for North Carolina Prison Education Services. She has been a teacher and a school administrator in public K-12 schools, as well as in juvenile justice schools, and in two prison schools. She is passionate in her belief that education is a tool to change and save lives. She

holds a Bachelors degree in Middle Grades Education, a Masters in School Administration, an Education Specialist Degree in Education Leadership, and is currently working on her Doctorate in Educational Leadership.

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