Megan Barker

Welcome to the Deaf Education Program at Bell Elementary

My name is Megan Barker and I am the lead teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children for BCS.  I am an Asheville native and went through the Asheville City School system.  I attended college at University of North Carolina at Greensboro where I obtained my degree in Deaf Education K-12. I began my teaching career in 2007 with a school system on the eastern part of North Carolina for 8 years as an itinerant teacher of Deaf/HH preschoolers. During that time, I obtained my PreK/K add on license through the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.   In 2015, I moved back to Asheville.  I worked for several years as a NC-PreK teacher then became a Service Coordinator for the Children's Developmental Services Agency (CDSA).  In 2022, I returned to teaching as an itinerant teacher of Deaf/HH for middle and high school students.  In 2024, I came to Bell Elementary as the lead teacher of Deaf/HH for Pre-K and elementary students.