[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Rubrics and an Arts Integration Community of Practice
Rubrics and an Arts Integration Community of Practice...
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Evidence for Education: Effective Mathematics Instruction
Evidence for Education: Effective Mathematics Instruction...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Imagination
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem The connection between imagination and planning is clear. When we build, tend, cultivate, extend,...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Living Wide-Awakeness
I graduated from The University of Texas with my Ph.D. in August of 2003. Over the years, I have written about wide-awakeness, the conceptual framework for my work, quite a bit. This Weekly Wide-Awake is the collection of some of those writings. I am...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.