Catherine Scott

Her passion for animals spawned an interest in environmental education. Alternative Certification landed her a job teaching first and second grade, which, as Catherine puts it…just stuck! When she took Basic Language Skills in order to fill a gap in services for several of her struggling students, she felt she had finally found something that was “going to work,”…and it did! That year, she used her training for tiered instruction, and every single one of her students passed the Stanford Achievement Test. She began work as a part-time reading specialist and for the next four years, inspired by the needs of her students, she passionately took on the role of advocate at ARD meetings, liaison between teachers and students and educator of parents on dyslexia and related reading problems. Catherine is now in a reading specialist masters program through the University of St. Thomas.

“I want to serve as a resource for people. I want people to be educated and have as much knowledge as possible, so a learning disability does not disable them.”