Katelyn Suchyta

Katelyn Suchyta is a doctoral student in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research focus is on elementary mathematics practices, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Katelyn works as the hospital teacher/school liaison at the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. She collaborates with schools and families to recommend services for supporting academic learning while pediatric patients are undergoing treatment. Her services include reviewing school documentations, including IEPs and 504 plans, assisting in developing appropriate educational support plans, and communicating with children’s schools to help with transitions back to school as needed. Katelyn also provides individualized instructional services to children ages 5-18 years old within the hospital setting, works collaboratively with the medical care team, and writes daily session reports for each child within their electronic medical record.

Previously, she was a second-grade teacher at Gaston Elementary School in Northampton County, North Carolina, through Teach For America. She led both the second-grade teachers and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program in reflecting on academic and social behaviors. In addition, she developed an after-school tutoring program for students to attend at no cost and served as a lead teacher at the county’s Summer Academy.

She also taught second grade at Bridges Elementary School with the Sauk Prairie School District and was also a math interventionist at Launch™ Speech and Reading, where provided in-person and virtual lessons and activities to engage the children in math concepts and expand students’ critical-thinking skills, problem-solving strategies, and foundational math topics. She also taught first grade at the School for Agricultural and Environmental Studies (SAGES), a Title 1, project-based and public charter school with the Waupun Area School District in Fox Lake, WI.