Teddy Demarest holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Reading Instruction from Texas A&M University. She is certified in the state of New Mexico both as an elementary and secondary classroom teacher, and holds a level 3A Master Teacher certification. She is endorsed as a Reading Specialist, Language Arts teacher, and a Social Studies teacher.

During her twenty six years of experience in education, Teddy has served as an elementary classroom teacher, a mid-school Language Arts teacher, and a Title I resource teacher. She has also been a Literacy coordinator for District Title I School-wide Projects and a Reading / Literacy consultant for the New Mexico Public Education Department as well as school districts and schools in the five state region of the Southwest.

Teddy serves as a consultant to Apex on reading and literacy. In this capacity, she produced the literature review on Scientifically Based Reading Research for the Public Education Department's Reading and Literacy in New Mexico document. She is an advisor to the PD2000 project.