Mrs. Casey Duck-Garcia graduated from an International Baccalaureate high school program in Tulsa, Oklahoma before receiving her BA from Texas Christian University, Magna Cum Laude. Her graduate studies took place at the University of Texas Arlington, where she earned her Master of Science in Social Work, as a Presidential Scholar with Summa Cum Laude distinction. Intermingled throughout and since this time she has worked as a licensed educator at the lower elementary level with English Language Learners over 15 years in small and large schools both public and private. She taught migrant students in Colorado through AmeriCorps National Service, worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a special education teacher and served families and children at the Center for Creative Living in Fort Worth.  She lived and worked on the extremely remote Navajo Reservation in Arizona working with students in the gifted and talented as well as special education programs. The past eight years she has taught in the Del Valle ISD of Austin serving students primarily in the Response to Intervention setting. Additionally, she runs her own yoga for youth program where she works with small groups of students to integrate movement, mindfulness and problem solving skills both on and off the mat. She joined APA in 2013.