Cohort 1
Kelly Schreiber
EDUCATION • M.A. in Special Education: Intervention and Leadership University of Northern Colorado • B.A. in English and Secondary Education Lewis University
ENROLLED • Cohort 1
LOCATION • Littleton, Colo.
Kelly Schreiber is currently a middle school special education teacher for Denver Public Schools in Colorado. She has 12 years of experience teaching language arts and special education at the middle school level in a variety of settings. She began her career as a Lasallian Volunteer teaching on the Blackfoot Reservation in Northern Montana, briefly returned home to Colorado and taught for the Jefferson County School District, and then spent over six years teaching abroad at an American school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and traveling South America before ultimately returning to Colorado. Throughout her career, Kelly has served in leadership roles including grade level lead, department chair, and a member of the school leadership team. In addition to her classroom experience, she also has four years of experience working both full-time and part-time in the human services field supporting adults with intellectual and development disabilities through vocational, social, and recreational programming. In her current teaching position, Kelly has noticed gaps in literacy instruction at multiple levels, from the individual student, to curricula, intervention programs, teacher training, and state legislation. This has led to her interest in the doctoral program in Language and Literacy as a way to explore effective systems of literacy instruction and become a stronger advocate for improvements in her local context. As a secondary teacher who has had to fill in the gaps in her own learning around teaching foundational literacy skills through outside professional development, Kelly feels strongly about examining resources available to teachers and building secondary teachers’ capacity for supporting early literacy skills. As a passionate reader and writer herself, Kelly also feels strongly about the importance of literacy skills in producing productive citizens and hopes to explore ways to help students and families to see the value of literacy.
UW-Stevens Point
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