Teaching Experience
Katie’s journey to education and teaching has been a long-winded one, but it has been solidified through Manhattanville University’ MFA Program’s Teaching Pathway. Inspired by poets, writers, and teaching artists, Katie has been able to enter education in a new avenue, and realized she has been an educator in various ways throughout her life.
Currently, Katie is a Teaching Fellow, and is curating curriculum and leading instruction in Academic Writing at Manhattanville University. Through learning the pedagogies about teaching and tutoring writing, they have been able to develop and understand the most effective ways to navigate writing education. In the future, they hope to not only continue teaching academic writing, but expand to leading classes on creative writing.
Courses Taught
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This course provides an overview of critical thinking strategies and writing skills that are essential to successful, meaningful academic work at the college level and that facilitate informed citizenship in college and beyond. Students will be guided to develop critical literacy skills, including textual analysis, and formulate cogent arguments through frequent drafting and revision. To ensure students are writing accurately and coherently, they will focus on grammar, word usage, sentence structure, paragraph coherence, and rhetorical modes.
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This course will build on the skills developed in College Writing I. Students will review critical thinking skills and writing skills related to analysis, persuasion, and argumentation, and will also review key concepts of grammar and style. Students will receive continued instruction in analysis and synthesis, as well as in research and documentation. Emphasis will be placed on writing as a process and the connection between writing and research. Through primary and secondary research, focused revision based on peer and instructor feedback, and development from proposal through multiple drafts, students will produce a long-form, bibliographic essay.
Other Educational Experience
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Manhattanville University, Jan 2025–present
Tutoring students in writing across disciplines in all stages of the writing process, providing support in topic development, drafting, composition, and revision within the Writing Center.
Supporting Writing Center operations with administrative tasks, including attending meetings and updating records, while also serving as a liaison to professors by consulting with them regarding students in the collegiate writing curriculum.
Represent Manhattanville’s Writing Center at internal and external workshops, such as the Tutor Talks workshops and events.
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SUNY Oneonta, Jan 2019–May 2019
Collaborated with the Assistant Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department to provide additional assistance throughout the course involving the research of gender-based violence statistics and prevention methods on higher education campuses.
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Sept 2018–Apr 2019
Prepared and facilitated specific educational programming on campus, directly reflecting the needs of the student body and greater community.
Assisted in the development and implementation of events, such as the Safe Space Training program and the SUNY Pride Conference.
Maintained and managed daily operations of the GSRC while providing accurate and helpful student resources.
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NYC iSchool, Nov 2014–Mar 2015
Served as Teaching Assistant for poetry class module by advising students with tasks presented, and assisting with workshop facilitation, and guiding class when teacher was absent.
Provided supplemental material for lessons and assisted with various administrative tasks.
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Jun 2014–Aug 2014
Advised children from ages 8 to 18 years old in small counselor groups, chaperoning them between workshops and music lessons while promoting creative artistic expression centered on social justice, intersectional feminism, and self-empowerment.
Facilitated workshops such as “Band Art” and “Songwriting” and assisted in various tasks required by staff.
Abbreviated Teaching and Tutoring Philosophy
My journey to teaching and education has been a long and winding one. It wasn’t until studying with creative writers and teaching artists that I was able to see this shift of rigid education to a space that talked about writing as a craft, and how to bring your own voice within writing.
It's been my guiding voice as I work with students: how can I teach the fundamentals while also building a space for students to find their own voice and reclaim themselves in writing? Through my own background, along with my time as a teacher and tutor, I work to demystify writing and break down barriers, focus on the writing process and embrace the idea that there is no such thing of “good” or “bad” writers, and work to be an inclusive educator across tutoring and teaching. My focus in curriculum centers these ideals, focusing on themes around critical thinking and media literacy, which mirrors my main pedagogies of metacognition, in getting students to think about how they write and what their process is, and transfer in being able to tap into prior knowledge and set them up for success that will apply in all avenues of their life.
I strive to create spaces of joy and celebration while fighting for liberation for all, looking through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, and body, utilizing my identities to uplift and educate. I bring these models and principles to the classroom, workshop, tutoring session, and beyond.
I value the voice writing provides and have that lead the motivation in my work as a poet, educator, and content writer. I come to writing, teaching, and tutoring with a strong anti-AI lens and I cherish the heart in authentic writing styles.
