Kate Manion
Highlands Ranch,CO
Summary
Enthusiastic, creative, and highly effective educator dedicated to the cognitive and social growth, and well being of students. A self-driven leader who excels at cultivating and maintaining meaningful relationships with teachers, students, and families. Skilled practitioner of purposeful teaching, curriculum exploration, and mentoring with curiosity and compassion.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Literacy Interventionist
Castle Rock Elementary School
Castle Rock, CO
07.2025 - Current
- Designed and implemented individualized literacy intervention plans for diverse student needs.
- Collaborated with teachers to integrate literacy strategies into classroom instruction.
- Assessed student reading levels using various diagnostic tools and tailored interventions accordingly.
- Facilitated small group sessions focusing on phonics, comprehension, and vocabulary development.
- Collaborated with MTSS team to determine Tier 3 interventions
Literacy Specialist/Teacher - 2nd Grade
Stone Mountain Elementary
Highlands Ranch, CO
08.2022 - 06.2025
- Planned and implemented Tier 1 curriculum: Wonders 2023
- Implemented the Write Tools framework throughout curriculum
- Administered and used progress monitoring, unit assessments and i-Ready to determine Tier 2 grouping for specific skills
- Collaborative member of grade level Professional Leadership Committee (PLC)
- Mentored probationary teammate and grade level in writing instruction
- Administered and analyzed CoGAT
- Small group instruction in reading
- Collaborated with MTSS team to determine Tier 3 interventions
Literacy Educator Grade 5
Stone Mountain Elementary
Highlands Ranch, CO
08.2019 - 05.2022
- Planned and implemented Tier 1 curriculum: Wonders 2001, Next Step Forward in Guided Reading 2019
- Selected for and represented Building Leadership Team
- Selected for and facilitated pilot PLC for grade level
- Selected to and participated in curricula literacy reviw
- Implemented the Write Tools Framework
- Administered and used progress monitoring, unit assessments and i-Ready to determine Tier 2 grouping for specific skills
- Collaborated with our Special Education team, RTI interventionists, ELL, and GT facilitators to meet specific needs of my students
- Administered and analyzed CMAS and i-Ready
- Mentored teammate new to grade level and subject
General Education Teacher Grade 3
East Elementary
Littleton, CO
08.2017 - 05.2018
- Planned and implemented Lucy Caulkins Units of Study
- Administered and used progress monitoring and unit assessments to determine Tier 2 grouping
- Collaborative member of grade level PLC team
- Administered and analyzed CMAS and i-Ready
- Established relationships with students of all cultural, social and economically challenged backgrounds
- Collaborated with ELL team and family liaison to meet diverse needs of students and their families
- Created and led an afterschool gardening club to be maintained by future students
General Education Teacher Grade 4
Stone Mountain Elementary
Highlands Ranch, CO
08.2016 - 05.2017
- Planned and implemented Tier 1 curriculum: Fountas and Pinnell, Every Child a Writer, the Write Tools Framework, Everyday Math and Words Their Way
- Administered and used progress monitoring and unit assessments to determine Tier 2 skilled based learning
- Facilitated and differentiated small group instruction in all subject matters
- Collaborated with all specialized teams to meet diverse student need
- CMAS and iReady analysis and administration
- Created and facilitated an extra curricular creative writing club
General Education Teacher Kindergarten
Stone Mountain Elementary
Highlands Ranch, CO
08.2012 - 08.2016
- Planned and implemented tier 1 curriculum: Fundations, Everyday Math, the Write Tools Framework
- Administered and used progress monitoring tools and assessments to determine tier 2 grouping by skill
- Collaborated with all special teams to meet diverse needs of students
- Administered and analyzed i-Ready
- Created and facilitated cross grade Service Learning Project benefitting Make-A-Wish four consecutive years
- Represented Stone Mountain for teaching excellence at Apple Awards
Education
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction
University of Denver
Denver, CO05-2007
Bachelor of Arts - English And Art History
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS12-1999
Skills
- Fluency building
- Differentiated instruction
- Parent-teacher communication
- Collaborative teaching
- Response to intervention
- Small group instruction
- Progress monitoring
- Data-driven instruction
Certification
READ ACT certified
Orton Gillingham Basic Training
Orton Gillingham Advanced Morphology
Certified Yoga Instructor (CYT) 2021
Apple Award representative for Stone Mountain 2017
Timeline
Literacy Interventionist
Castle Rock Elementary School
07.2025 - Current
Literacy Specialist/Teacher - 2nd Grade
Stone Mountain Elementary
08.2022 - 06.2025
Literacy Educator Grade 5
Stone Mountain Elementary
08.2019 - 05.2022
General Education Teacher Grade 3
East Elementary
08.2017 - 05.2018
General Education Teacher Grade 4
Stone Mountain Elementary
08.2016 - 05.2017
General Education Teacher Kindergarten
Stone Mountain Elementary
08.2012 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Arts - English And Art History
University of Kansas
Master of Arts - Curriculum And Instruction
University of Denver