Talya Edlund teaches third grade in the Cape Elizabeth School District in Cumberland County.

Edlund joined Pond Cove Elementary School in 2004, serving as a literacy teacher and team leader. She began her career teaching second- and third-graders at P.S. 23 Carter Woodson School in Brooklyn, New York.

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Before working at Pond Cove, Edlund was program coordinator for Project Safe and Smart at Lincoln Middle School in Portland and has been an adjunct instructor at Southern Maine Community College teaching college prep reading to English language learners.

Edlund has a bachelor’s degree in humanities from the University of Michigan and a master’s in elementary education from Brooklyn College.