Katy Wischow is a staff developer for the Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower. More than a decade ago, Katy found her own way to her very first summer institute, coming as a “lone wolf.” Midweek, she told her principal, “I’m going to need some money” because she decided she absolutely had to have the Units of Study curriculum. Soon she’d transformed her Newark, New Jersey, middle school classroom into a flourishing writing workshop; her students’ passionate response led Katy to enroll in the Literacy Specialist program at Teachers College.
Katy has co-authored the book Unlocking the Power of Classroom Talk, co-written several Units of Study, and has authored the Ida series in the Jump Rope Readers. She is deeply interested in grammar, writing professionally, supporting teachers’ writing lives, and building strong learning cultures in schools and classrooms.
