Katie Keown

Director, Literacy

A Quote That Inspires Me

"Your life is dependent upon your relationship with words." ― Jason Reynolds

About

Katie (she/her/hers) is a Literacy Director at Student Achievement Partners, where she works to support educators in designing literacy instruction that helps prepare students, particularly teenagers, to lead choice-filled lives. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois and a master's in reading science from Mount. St. Joseph University, where she is currently pursuing an Ed.D. in reading science. Her research interests include teacher preparation to teach reading and supporting middle and high school striving readers.

Experience

With experience as a middle and high school teacher and assessment design and developer, Katie believes in the power of words (and English classrooms!) to transform lives. She and her husband spend their time chasing around their three amazing kids.

More from Katie

Elementary School
Middle School
High School

Preparing to Teach in a Culturally Relevant Way

Focusing on “how we think” instead of “what to do” when planning lessons As our team engaged deeply in the foundational work of Dr. Ladson Billings, as well as conversations with educators regarding h… Read More

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Elementary School
Middle School
Literacy

Constantly Shifting Practice

How the Shifts of the Common Core changed instruction and still missed the mark As we’ve been highlighting in this series, Student Achievement Partners has helped to play a role in defining many eleme… Read More

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Mathematics
Literacy
Instructional Materials Landscape Analysis

From “What do we do with the IMET?” to “How might we understand our system?”

Over the last two years, Student Achievement Partners (SAP) has shifted and narrowed our focus from implementing college- and career-ready standards to centering Black students and multilingual learne… Read More

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