Katie Keier (she/her/hers), has been a classroom teacher, school librarian, and literacy specialist in grades preK–8 for 35 years. She is currently a kindergarten teacher in a public school near Washington, DC. Katie is passionate about play, literacy learning, agency and access for all learners, arts integration, outdoor education, and Reggio Emilia-inspired pedagogy. She is the coauthor of Catching Readers before They Fall, writes on the www.catchingreaders.com blog, and posts as @bluskyz on Instagram. When she is not learning and playing with young children, she can be found running and playing on the mountain trails of Virginia.
Imagine being a child, stepping foot inside your classroom for the very first time. What are you thinking? Feeling? Seeing? I believe that children should feel welcomed and see themselves and their loved ones reflected in the classroom from the very...
Many teachers start the year with a name study. It’s an excellent way to get to know each other, build community, introduce letters and sounds in the younger grades and give students a voice in a safe way as they share their names and the stories...
My teaching of mathematics transformed when I was introduced to Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI Math) and the work of Linda Levi, Susan Empson, Megan Franke, Kassia Omohundro Wedekind, and Jessica Shumway. Seeing math stories come alive for...
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