Kathleen Easley

Katy Easley is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Learning Partnership. Her primary research interests center around curriculum development and instructional support. She began her career as an elementary Montessori teacher in central Illinois. She has also taught undergraduates at the University of Michigan, taught 3rd-graders at a New York City summer science camp, and provided instructional support to teachers in Illinois, Mississippi and New York. While getting her doctorate from the University of Michigan, she supported the development and implementation of an elementary project-based learning curriculum that integrated science, literacy and mathematics. Her current work focuses on supporting curriculum development in inquiry-based middle school science.

Katy holds a PhD from the University of Michigan in Educational Studies, with a concentration in Literacy, Language, and Culture.