Biography

Kathryn Schroeder’s Professional Biography

In 1991, Kathryn Schroeder graduated from St. Norbert College with a major in elementary education and a minor in early childhood/pre-school.  She spent her first three years teaching grades first, second, and fourth in the Elkhorn School District.  In 1994, she accepted a teaching position with the Fox Point-Bayside School District and continues to teach there today.  The majority of her career has been spent teaching first and second grade.  Along with her passion for teaching, Kathryn has always had a passion for learning.  In 1992, she enrolled in graduate school at UW-Milwaukee and graduated in 1995 with a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis in reading.  As part of her master’s degree, she researched strong language arts programs and went to Australia to compare their approach to reading instruction with what the research stated.  After receiving her master’s degree, Kathryn continued to take graduate courses that focused on reading instruction.  In 2012-2013, she took a year-long course in early reading empowerment.  As a requirement for the course, she needed to provide reading intervention in a one-on-one setting several times a week.  While providing reading instruction to one of her students, Kathryn realized their half hour together was one of her favorite parts of the day.  This made her want to go back to school in order to become a reading interventionist so she would have more opportunities to help struggling readers reach their full potential.  She enrolled in the reading teacher licensure program at Viterbo University.  In the summer of 2014, she completed the work required to receive a reading teacher license from the state of Wisconsin.  She also looked forward to the start of the 2014-2015 school year so she could begin her new role as full-time reading interventionist.