Course Work Archives - Page 5 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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Wordlessness

Wild New World I took a writing class with writer, psychologist, and coach Martha Beck, Wild New World. As Beck explains, "All of us have patterns where we're trying to live our best lives and we make the same mistakes over and over. Wild New Worl...

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Course Work, Doing Philosophy

Confessions of a Story Slayer

Slay: 1. to kill by violence. 2. to destroy; extinguish.A standard definition of “to slay” Stories are being slayed left and right in our world. The stories of refugees seeking safety. The stories of innocent lives lost to gun violence. The st...

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Course Work, Doing Philosophy

Weekly Wide-Awake: Write 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 love...

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Course Work

A Wide-Awakeness Cover Story

I have been thinking about Martha’s notion of cover story. As someone who fired her first doctoral committee when they objected to my wide-awakeness research, (“Wouldn’t you be better served writing about standardized testing? That is what peop...

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