Kathy Heitmeyer
Kathy Heitmeyer is a career teacher whose classroom experience includes work in a 1st - 3rd multi-age room and then as a kindergarten teacher for several years. She then taught Reading Recovery and served as a K-2 Title I teacher in public schools before transitioning into her current work as a trainer/literacy strategist for Missouri Reading Initiative. Kathy is in her sixteenth year at MRI serving schools throughout Missouri—primarily in the St. Louis area. Kathy graduated from Stephens College with a BA in Elementary Education and then from the University of Missouri with an MED in Curriculum and Instruction (Reading Education).