Course Work Archives - Page 2 of 12 - Katie Steedly

[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!

Melanie Faith

Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.

Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.

The Society of Professional Journalists

In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.

I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.

Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

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Course Work, Weekly Wide-Awake

Forming

"Forming—bringing what you imagined into three-dimensional reality." Martha Beck I have been forming my entire life. Forming is a perfect name (thank you Martha Beck) for the process my heart has always seemed to understand. I have always list...

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Course Work, Weekly Wide-Awake

Oneness

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Martha Beck I believe in interdependence and ubuntu. I belie...

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Course Work, Doing Philosophy

Writing into Light

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. Martha Beck I have always been a creature of the light. I am profoundly curious. I love to create. I am builder. I lov...

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Course Work, Poetry

The Function of a Wing

I have read about a girl who pinned her healing to the making Of cranes, and how they navigate by starlight, instinct, the ancient Maps scored inside the lace of their bones. They know how to dance.From Emma Trelles' "The Function of a Wing...

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